Limbaugh claims that "Marxist" Obama "intends to purge all Republicans" from civil service

What is a " republican " ???

Yes, I did read the memo; did you? Your interpretation is wrong. It says any Federal agency must have written permission from OPM if it wants to convert someone from a political/non-career SES position or someone who held such a position into a regular Civil Service appointment before making the conversion. It says nothing about going back and taking appointments away from people. Civil Servants have very specific rights and responsibilities. OPM wants to make sure that any conversion also meets the standards of education and experience required by a specific job description. The memo further states that this rule applies if they held a political appointment within the last five years. OPM currently examines the fitness of employees being converted and will continue to do so. This is an anti-spoils system ruling intended to keep the civil service both professional and apolitical. It only affects a handful of people because very few people serve in the Executive Branch or in Congress on political appointments. I have included the paragraphs that are pertainent, so readers can judge for themselves. But really, you should do a better job of reading something before you go getting all hot and bothered over it. And I wouldn't talk about lemmings and cliffs and messiahs if I had just "Rush"ed headlong over such a big one myself following a white whale of a messiah. How embarrasssing.


"In no case may an agency make an appointment of the type described below without written authorization from OPM:
(A)The appointment of a current political Schedule A or Schedule C Executive Branch employee or a former political Schedule A or Schedule C Executive Branch employee who held the position within the last five years to a competitive or non-political excepted service position under title 5 of the U.S. Code.
(B)The appointment of a current Non-career SES Executive Branch employee or a former Non-career SES Executive Branch employee who held the position within the last five years to a competitive or non-political excepted service position under title 5 of the U.S. Code."

One of the hallmarks of the authoritarian/conservative personality is their tendency to project personal tendencies they're trying to deny within themselves back out onto those they see as the "enemy". In this regard, Limbaugh does a very good job of describing his own thoughts and desires, presenting the right-wing authoritarian mindset in more vivid detail than one usually sees in conservatives.

Don't forget the following things as well:

1. Loyalty pledges to republican party if you wanted to attend a W rally or speech.

2. Needed to be born and bred republican if you wanted a job with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Which led to, not having the right people for the right jobs, and basically the CPA being a disaster.

3. DOJ and Goodling (as you noted above).

Actually, Marbury v. Madison was not about a purge. Marbury never got his appointment because Madison refused to deliver the last minute appointment to Marbury (given by the Adams Administration). And he sued to get it, but never did. By the way, the Supreme Court Cheif Justice, Marshall was also the Adams official who had failed to get Mr. Marbury his appointment in time.