Will an added bureaucrat guarantee more competence and less waste in the next presidential administration? In any case, President-elect Barack Obama appointed a chief performance officer last week. Nancy Killefer (in photo), a former Clinton administration official who now directs a management consulting firm, will work with federal agencies to find efficiencies, set performance standards, hold managers accountable and, as Obama put it Wednesday, “put government on the side of taxpayers.” That’s stuff you would have expected from George W. Bush, the “first MBA president.”
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Government? Actually perform? This will be one to watch.
Republic Party politicians simply want power in the worst way.
And that’s how they wield it.
It’s awful to think Brownback wants to bring his record of efficiency and fiscal conservatism to Kansas. Maybe that’s why he’s leaving the Senate, he doesn’t want to argue for wasting spending programs.
I think it’s a great idea..a woman whose only job will be to find government waste and do something about it. I’m sure it will be more than a full time job and she’ll be efficient and effective at it…brilliant!
“If you want something said..ask a man. If you want something done…ask a woman”
I think it’s interesting how Sam (the Sham) Brownback is leading the NIMBY movement to prevent Gitmo prisoners to be incarcerated in Leavenworth Federal Prison.
His rationale?
“What if they escape?!”
What a slap in the face to every jailer and Correctional Officer in the nation!
“What if they escape?!”
Brownback reveals himself to believe his fellow Kansans — who risk their lives and earn their bread by specifically spending every working hour so people don’t escape — will fail!
You have to remember Sam really identifies with failure. He converted from the Methodist Church to a weird medieval cult that preaches self-flagellation with a seven-string whip, and he never appears in public without wearing his barbed-wire jock strap.
For two years, he spent half of his wife’s inheritance to win 2% of Republic Party voters in Iowa last year.
Brownback’s “snowflake babies” show-and-tell presentation in the Senate well is the stuff of YouTube hillarity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d97iQ8Y-fjo
Oh, would there were someone who is not now a candidate for Governor of Kansas who would step up to the plate and change Kansas’ reputation as dolts such as Sam Brownback.
I simply wish people would stop sending support to jeremy_shops@hotmail.com who’s trying to get “Monkeyhawk” to run for governor.
(Have you noticed that “Monkeyhawk” has already mastered that old Bob-Dole-referring-to-himself-in-the-Third-Person” technique? Still, “Monkeyhawk” wants to stress that “Monkeyhawk” is not a candidate for Governor of Kansas.)
Bush only learned MBA 101 – Intro to: “We can’t be responsible for everything.”
And perhaps MBA 202 – “Here’s a downsize, but it’s really an enhancement – (wink, wink)”
If brownback wins, I think gay folks can kiss goodbye their precious “executive order” that forbids discrimination against lgbts.
It was sebelius’ only concession for equality, four years after it was promised, and it can easily be overturned by the next governator.
It may have been a bone, but a very small and soft bone that wont be around long if brownback wins. Which, given the success of democrats other than sebelius, is likely.
You know, with the exception of Paul Morrison, and I think a yellow dog coulda beat philllll, you have to go back to Joan Finney for the last time a democrat won a statewide office other than governor leadership.
Not a track record to be proud of. And she’s done nothing for party building. Good luck Dennis. I’m thinking this move for him wasnt a stepping stone for higher office, it’s a minor pause on the way out the door and on to retirement.
Btw, the executive order only forbids discrimination in STATE employment. If you dont work for the State of Kansas, you are still unprotected from bigotry in employment.
Will an added bureaucrat guarantee more competence and less waste in the next presidential administration?
No.
This is public relations, nothing more, nothing less. Bureaucracies operate under rules quite different than the real world; it’s the nature of the beast. And no amount of front-office reorganization will change that.
“Will an added bureaucrat guarantee more competence and less waste in the next presidential administration?”
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It’s a job that badly needs to be done and be done successfully. I certainly will give her a chance before decreeing she is a failure, the job assignment not sincere and she isn’t able to perform the duties.
What does Brownback have to do with the topic header???
Are the blind leading the blind today and followed each into the river one by one?
Bobble-head wobbling, all without purpose…
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Well, so did Maggot and MH…
Just wondering if the cow rope was tangled up in the feet…
Linda –
I don’t say what I said as a criticism of Obama, necessarily, and I understand and appreciate what he’s trying to do.
But the Federal bureaucracy is a different animal; presidents of both parties have been trying to gain control of it for decades, with little success. The bureaucracy’s institutional goals simply differ from goals of the the political leadership. The appointment of a ‘bureaucracy czar’ will not change that. I strongly suspect that Ms.Killefer and Obama will be equally frustrated at their inability to change bureaucratic practice.
“George W. Bush, the “first MBA president.””
LMAO
Don’t give Bush anymore credit, he can’t handle what he has done now. NOT A DAMN THING!!
What a novel concept, a little accountability to go along with the power!
The U.S. State Department pledged $700,000 of YOUR tax money to help preserve and restore ancient Babylon, which the Bible condemns to perpetual abandonment and desolation. These bureaucrats might as well be dumping your money down a sewer.
(Isaiah 13:19-22; Jeremiah 25:12)
Troyboy sez,
“The U.S. State Department pledged $700,000 of YOUR tax money to help preserve and restore ancient Babylon, which the Bible condemns to perpetual abandonment and desolation.”
Hoo hah, here we go again!
Farm Gal,
“Btw, the executive order only forbids discrimination in STATE employment. If you dont work for the State of Kansas, you are still unprotected from bigotry in employment.”
Yeah, it’s a small bone, but it could become an opportunity if it’s used by gay people to infiltrate every office of state government. Then let the next governor try to take those rights away, and he’ll be effectively shutting down the state!
“Babylon, which the Bible condemns to perpetual abandonment and desolation.”
So it wasn’t about the oil.
It wasn’t about expanding democracy into the Middle East.
It wasn’t to “fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here.
It wasn’t because Saddam Hussein gassed his own subjects.
It was because “…the Bible condemns…” Babylon and Saddam Hussein tried to rebuild it as a tourist attraction.