One of the most lopsided exit poll results from the presidential election is that voters who wanted change voted overwhelmingly for Trump.  His clarion call to “Drain the Swamp” reverberated across America’s great hinterlands last night.  In addition to lobbyists, let’s be sure to purge some burrowing civil service political appointees.   Political appointees converting to career civil servants is a process called burrowing, and helps ensure that our politicized institutions largely remain intact even though a majority of voters would rather change course.  Even Bill Clinton tacitly acknowledged that change was in the air with his twisted assertion that Hillary is the candidate of change. Obama’s legacy was shredded by this stark referendum on his failed presidency, but he’s a stubborn, petulant man who will try to salvage some semblance of a legacy by surreptitious means.  He has already tried to change the...(Read Full Post)