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Originally Posted by Dan02
Not a fan of Palin, but i'd be extremely suprised if this sort of "abuse" of power isn't pretty damn common in the US political establishment. To me personally not a very newsworthy event.
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I think you are wrong. If you had claimed that finding someone a job due to connections is common, that I'd find plausible, but getting someone fired is much harder and also carries much more negative visibility. In this case, you are even talking about a government job - the kind of job that everyone complains because the incompetent DON'T get weeded out because it's hard to fire someone
with cause, never mind without.
I'm amazed that people can be complacent about this. This is exactly the kind of misuse of power that should be vigorously prosecuted when found; apathy just encourages further abuse.