What? Are they saying thatScott Jennings is not a Hatch Act covered employee? If so, he can say whatever he wants and it’s not until a covered employee joins in that the COVERED MPLOYEE violates that HAtch Act.

Why wouldn’t Jennings be a covered meployee?

lhp,

I thought that political appointees (cabinet-level officials and EOP employees) could do most anything (except fundraising) as long as they didn’t involve career employees. Scott Jennings could have given that presentation at, say, a Federalist Society meeting, but not at the GSA.

Perfect example justifying the placement of known political operatives or staunch partisans across the breadth of the DOJ: investigations into administration corruption will be stymied or diluted. Jennings and Doan both should already have been escorted from their respective buildings at the very minimum.

â€criminalizing politics†results from having criminals in politics

Near as I can tell — just from reading the tea leaves and talking to folks who are a degree or so removed from the goings-on — the OSC has made a determination that the Jennings Power Point was no more than an informational briefing about the upcoming election (which is apparently premissible when certain types of political appointees address otther political appointees, as was the case with this presentation) and that Hatch-Act prohibited conduct came into play only when some of those political appointees used the information as a springboard for partisan political activity (e.g., Lurita’s idiotically brazen comments about what â€we†— i.e., GSA officials — can do to help â€our candidatesâ€). Frankly, I think that determination reeks, inasmuch as the slides alone certainly appear to be geared toward advocating the election of Republicans and the defeat of democrats in key battleground states — in other words, partisan political activity. And we don’t seem to be privy to the script of Jennings’s pitch (perhaps due to another bout of Repulican Amnesia), and the OSC does not appear to have proved itself capable of pinning down related documents.
To me, it looks a lot like the OSC is just grabbing at the low-hanging fruit — the clueless Doan — and leaving alone Rove’s boy, whether out of fear of retribution, out of direct orders to stay away from Jennings, out of lack of sufficient competence and expertise, or otherwise.

The old boy’s clubs in congress and the agencies don’t want to make too many waves, that their own kayaks must then negotiate. Posted by: Jodi (aka Ms. Metaphor Tokyo Jodi Todie)

Rabbits. Magic shows. Waves and kayaks. Baseball and hot dog stands. Double bitted axes. Old boy’s club.

Does the old boys’s club include these old girls? Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell, Hillary Clinton, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Dianne Feinstein, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Blanche Lincoln, Claire McCaskell, Barbara Mikulski, Lisa Murkowski, Patty Murray, Olympia Snowe, Debbie Stabenow.

More to the point, the metaphors substitute for addressing the substance of the issue as looseheadprop, Ockham, Paige, Rayne, Sebastian do. Marksb addreses the question of ethical and law-abiding government employees, irrespective of political affiliation, in response to Jodi’s ’both parties are corrupt’ equivalency, which has become a popular deflection in the last six years.

â€Get this: We progressives don’t give a rat’s ass if the political hack committing the crime is a Dem or a Repub. Well, we do care, but we stand on a platform that there will be no criminal activity in government at all, no matter who does the deed.â€

Seconded.