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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro
Remember in the bible when the big storm came up on the Med when Jonah was trying to run away from God's orders to go to Nineveh and the fisherman threw Jonah overboard to save the boat?
I think that's what happen 
but in this case the storm is not over yet and more fishermen might be thrown in |
And remember that the non-elected government is full of people appointed by past administrations, who continue in their rolls of working for who appointed them regardless of the present administration. This has been true forever. It is a practical impossibility to routinely fire everybody, hundreds of thousands of people in all government agencies, to replace them with those loyal to the present administration.
That used to be done you know. It was so inefficient, jobs ceased to be done, administrations were bogged down with the task of completely replacing the entire civil service. Naturally, that could not be done with any degree of competence and the impossible job kept those administrations from accomplishing anything until the civil service jobs were filled. The new system is better, but does result in the equivalent of moles riddled throughout every function of government, sabotaging those things they don't like, or in the case of certain Justice Department lawyers, incompetently pleading the case of Trump's travel moratorium.
A result of the "professionalism" of the Civil Service has been that they do not work for the President. There are positives and negatives associated with that fact. One of the negatives is that they are not in the confidence of the president, nor are they necessarily working for his aims. Hold it! That could also be a positive.....
