time-servers

• “Maybe a new, different GOP, but it is stuffed to the gills with time-servers and special interests (just like the dems) and would not get behind her, save with a knife already drawn.”

  Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...

• “Tea partiers I talked to hope to replace a lot of entrenched time-servers and to throw a scare into others.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention

• “I wonder how much lying has been done over the past week or so as various time-servers desperately try to prove that their work is actually useful and cost-effective, knowing that all their office rivals are trying to get them shut down?”

  Transition Update - NASA Watch

• “The old Board of Education was unaccountable and inefficient, staffed with political patronage hires and time-servers.”

  A Silver Lining

• “The service has its share of officers and noncoms who are time-servers, incompetents, and are unworthy of their rank.”

  What The Army Can Do For You

• “Up to a point: but if the salvation of the EU is supposed to lie with the European Parliament, those looking for a new mood are likely to be disappointed -- the Parliament itself, with padded expenses and plenty of time-servers, is hardly a model of democratic accountability.”

  Newsweek: Forced To Walk The Plank

• “But that's just a sample of the acrimony in Brussels these days as the European Commission is reorganized, the European Union's whole way of doing business is rethought and a lot of time-servers are starting to think that their time is running out.”

  Newsweek: It's Time To Let In Some Light

• “That would sort out the thrusting go-ahead achievers from the time-servers.”

  Archive 2008-02-01

• “There are now too many seedy time-servers, rent-seekers and party apparatchiks in the House – those who enjoy and exploit the system for their own personal benefit, no matter how they dress it up.”

  Tinkering at the margins

• “We need to build a new national police force from the ground up, finding a way to screen out the sadists, the punks and the time-servers, and to reassign the decent officers caught up in the current RCMP web of deadly incompetence, breaking up the tight little cliques right down to the detachment level.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

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