Is It Time For Congress To Re-evaulate The Civil Service

I have tried to stay out of the whole Trump impeachment fiasco.  I believe Trump will eventually be exonerated, and likely be re-elected.  But I wanted to take some time today to talk a bit about something I believe is relevant to the Constitution and our rights as human beings.  Jim Hanson has an article over at The Federalist today entitled Alex Vindman Is Living, Breathing Proof That The Deep State Exists, And That It Is Corrupt that talks to the issue of the rights and privileges of elected officials versus those of the permanent bureaucrats.

Hanson starts off by pointing out that he is not questioning Vindman's loyalty, patriotism, or devotion to duty.  He is, however, questioning his judgement as to where that duty lies.  Each person in the armed services takes an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.  But that Constitution places the President as the top of his chain of command.  Unless the President is clearly giving an Unconstitutional order, Vindman's actions sabotaging this President are at his own peril.

Hanson goes on to define the term "Deep State" as follows:

Deep State (noun): The permanent, professional bureaucracy of the U.S. government, specifically those who believe their judgment and continual service makes them better suited to run the country than elected officials or political appointees.

That’s accurate, but to expand on why it matters, we should note the political contributions of federal employees in the last presidential election went 95 percent to Hillary Clinton. There is nothing illegal or nefarious about that, but it certainly points out the one-sided political nature of this cohort. While they may not openly organize into political action committees, their hold on federal levers of power dangerously skews government’s actions and inactions toward the preferences of the political left.

The fact is that Vindman's pique with President Trump's foreign policy is that it somehow goes against what Vindman calls the "interagency" assessment of what is in the nation's interests.  I can not think of a more totalitarian idea than that a duly elected President, elected by the whole people, after campaigning in state after state on the issues, does not know what the people think is in their best interests. That a Lieutenant Colonel, a mid level officer of no particular distinction has the temerity to believe himself wiser than his superior officers or even his Commander in Chief is simply breathtaking.

President Trump campaigned on, among other ideas, the idea of placing America first on issues of foreign policy.  Everyone who voted for Trump was aware of his campaign and evidently approved of it.  For Vindman to later claim that he knows better than the all those people is extremely narcissistic.  /That he would sabotage the President's foreign policy and substitute what he refers to as the 'interagency' assessment is gross insubordination.  Why is he still here?

Please read the entire article.  It is my opinion that Congress should re-evaluate the Civil Service.  I believe that the permanent bureaucracy has become a danger to the our Constitutional form of government and to our rights.