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washingtonpost.com - 11/18/2008
Administration Protects Bush Appointees by Converting Positions to Career Civil Service Jobs
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washingtonpost.com - 11/22/2008
Bush Appointees Land Career Science Jobs With Seemingly Unrelated Backgrounds
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washingtonpost.com - 11/22/2008
Bush Appointees Land Career Science Jobs With Seemingly Unrelated Backgrounds
— washingtonpost.com — The president of the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration... political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific ... (more) Bush Appointees Land Career Science Jobs With Seemingly ...

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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES:  I Wonder

Daily Kos:  Another FU from BushCo

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I Wonder
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES — ... What the Bush administration is doing during these last days of its life? Might be worth a glance or two, especially with regard to all those political appointees that were installed in the last eight years: ...

Another FU from BushCo
Daily Kos — ... It's hard to come up with a word other than despicable to describe what the Washington Post reports about the outgoing Bushies: ...

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