They've just announced another big one -- The Civil Service.
Washington Post has story about latest plans in Rove's/Delay's/Norquist's Sherman-like march to destroy the Dem base by gutting the Civil Service and replacing them with a new patronage class.
A raise or promotion -- moving up in a pay range or rising to the next one -- will depend on receiving a satisfactory performance rating from a supervisor, said officials with homeland security and the Office of Personnel Management. "We really have created a system that rewards performance, not longevity," OPM Director Kay Coles James said
The GOP has already gutted pillars of democratic and populist movement such as the estate tax, Dem, K Street lobbyists, Dem Committee Staff (folks who gave us Clean Air Act and other legislative hallmarks), African American Ministers (with FB initative) and is working hard on trial lawyers and social security. Killing the civil service would be a huge blow -- no more AFSCME and the restatement of a class of government officials beholden to GOP power holders.