Longtime LiberalOasis readers know I've been regularly noting how Dubya has been implementing the Heritage Foundation plan, laid out in Jan. 2001, to undermine our civil service by empowering political hacks.

As Huffington Post readers are likely not as aware of my obsession, and as there were some significant developments on the civil service front today, I sought to put them in context over at HuffPo. (The issue also relates to matters that Campaign for America's Future focuses on: Social Security, Medicare and energy.)

Past LiberalOasis posts on the subject are here, here, here, here, here, here and here.