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To: Win Smith who wrote (116306)	7/23/2009 10:58:18 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542004

You end up with people like Michael Brown at FEMA or all the green ideologues right out of college who were sent in to "reconstruct" Iraq. And, same point probably, since they think of government as the bad guy on the scene, the best you can do with a good many appointments is either treat them as political boosters (Clarence Thomas at the SC to replace Thurgood Marshall) or as gravy to be distributed to loyal followers (witness what both Bushes did to FEMA--you'll recall that Clinton had to rebuild FEMA in his first term).

To: Win Smith who wrote (116306)	7/23/2009 11:07:01 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 542004

In conservative administrations, many people were placed at second- and third-tier levels because they would either block their agencies from investigating or enforcing rules against the party's supporters, or they would use the agency's power and resources to advance pet agendas for those interests. What they don't do is worry about enforcing existing congressional mandates and laws if those items don't correspond with their activist agenda. The examples of this pattern were rife under Bush-Cheney-Rove.