I know that EPA activists are obsessed with protecting the wetlands, but this swamp needs to be drained.
Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump’s arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
They don't work for the public. Because the public expresses its will by electing presidents. What they mean is that they are an unelected class of rulers who refuse to heed the will of the voters, but claim, like all tyrants, to be acting for the greater good of the people.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired.
Despite its belief in assorted unscientific nonsense, the left loves claiming the mantle of science. But are these really researchers strategizing about slow walking orders or, far more likely, officials with the agency who would actually be in a meaningful position to obstruct them.
Don't expect today's version of the New York Times to render the distinction accurately.