07/07/2009
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"I do not agree with the ad hominem attacks on our ATF agents and law enforcement personnel."
"We know he wants to wipe out civil servants' legal protections."
"The real purpose of the executive order was to provide the former President with the ability to dismiss, at start, at least 50,000 dedicated civil servants and replace them with political appointees a..."
"This idea of firing 50,000 civil servants and replacing them with his own little army of extreme conservatives should be something that concerns all of us."