With bodies littering the planet because of the bloody misadventures of the Cheney/Bush cabal, and no repercussions to be found for it, I doubt anyone will do anything about this except shoot out some sternly worded letters.

If the new administration REALLY wanted to solve the problem for good, the new folks would work with the majority party (remember... the ones we voted for who promised to clean up Washington two years ago?) and change the laws to prevent this in the future.

Don't hold your breath though, 'cause it is now turn for OUR mobsters to rule the roost and continue destroying our nation... IMHO

Why not identify those burrowed Bu$h implants then reassign them all to a newly refurbished Federal office complex - Gitmo - to carry out their assigned duties.

Those employees can be reassigned to any position in the government, so even if they cannot be fired they can be "forced out". Those are the rules for managers. So I would immediately reassign all those folks to a new department. And I love the beetlejuice idea, refurbished federal office complex, that is great!

Some very good questions here....can Schumer and Fienstein answer any of them..what DID happen to the previous occupants of these positions...why can't Obama slash the "pay grade" of these burrowers....can the Democrats do any thing but wring their hands and moan...? I hope and pray Obama is tougher and smarter than some of those other whining Democratic "pushovers"

You'll recall that it was now-fired US Special Counsel Scott Bloch who worked out a solution for "problems" like these.

He decided to downsize the Washington, DC office and reassign DC-based career people to a "newly opened" Detroit, MI office.

That went over well.

Burrowing in at the Dept. of Health and Human Services? This actually makes sense. Henry Waxman expressed puzzlement as to why Bush signed an Executive Order adding the DHHS Secretary to the list of persons who could originally classify documents as "SECRET". The explanation is well explained at Larson Media in the biomedical section. www.larsonmedia.net/special_access/biomed.htm

Either make them absolutely powerless or get rid of them altogether! I'd rather the taxpayers get ripped off than allow any more of Bush's incompetent unqualified cronies to continue to undermine effective and nonpartisan government. Assign them to little rooms next to the boiler room with no windows, air conditioning or ventilation. There is nothing honorable or moral about giving jobs in government to people who aren't capable or motivated to do them properly. Make their lives misearble if they can't or won't serve all of the people all of the time!

Give them all windowless offices without phones. Just a desk and a chair. Prohibit them from bringing any reading material into the building. Require that they stay in their offices eight hours a day.

It would be a good cost saving policy, but more important a show in support of Obama's One Nation, to announce that at the beginning of the next administration all career positions created not only over the last eight years, but 16 years as a political consolation to promote the necessity of the non-politicization of the Fed, will be up for review and reassignment based on both need and experience. An open and complete exploration, discovery, and overhaul of the entire Capitol would rebuild the trust most have lost and the political divide created over the last two administrations.

Please continue following this story. Clearly many of us are not only interested, but worried about what the last eight years have done to the essential structure of our government. With so many big, splashy stories taking the limelight, we need someone who is looking at this stuff - it cannot just have a life of its own, unnoticed as the new administration takes on its huge burden.