Federal-Employee Unions Fear Unfairness, Seek List of Hired Political Appointees
30th November 2008
Two powerful employee organizations are pressing the Bush administration to prove that in its final weeks, political aides are not improperly winning career government jobs at the expense of more qualified workers.
I don’t think this was written as a satire, since it’s in the Washington Post rather than The Onion, but I had to look to make sure, and I’m still not certain.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:46
By “fairness” they mean “No Republican gets a chance.”
December 1st, 2008 at 12:12
More precisely, it means “I’m shocked, shocked to find Republicans doing what Democrats have been doing for the last forty years.”