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Showing posts with label public servants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public servants. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

re: "A Bureaucrat's Aside re: Politics"

O at The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat ("The Optimist says: "The Glass is Half Full." The Pessimist says: "The Glass is Half Empty." The Bureaucrat says: "What we need are 5 glasses, 1/10th the size." The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat says: "Where's my damned Bourbon?"") shared an insight which stands as the cornerstone of any decent public servant:

"(M)y bureaucratic mentor the One-Eyed Fat Man, when faced with the milquetoast-eries of the upper management of the Federal Government, was fond of saying that he held no political allegiances and that his boss was the U.S. Constitution."