Jim O'Bierne -- WATB

The Obama transition team has notified about 90 of Bush's 250 political appointees at the Defense Department that their services would no longer be needed after Inauguration Day. One loyal "Bushie" at the Pentagon is not thrilled. Jim O'Beirne - the guy who packed Iraq's Coalition Provisional Authority with inexperienced, unqualified Republican loyalists is whining about it. He sent an e-mail to several soon to be fired colleagues, telling them that being removed by the Obama team is a badge of honor

O'Bierne said that if any of them "harbor residual doubts" then they can "content yourself with the likelihood that it was your outstanding performance as a Bush appointee that drew the opposition's attention to you."

"In that regard, you may take justifiable satisfaction that you were among the first to be chosen," O'Beirne wrote.

Oh, bullshit.

O'Bierne and his colleagues are venal, corrupt, parrtisan hacks:

To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration.

O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror? Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade.

These criminals can't get out of DC fast enough to suit me.