[rainsford]

How is being registered with a political party even anywhere in the same ballpark as "ideologically fueled"? And why does that only apply to one political party? Career government employees by definition serve during both Republican and Democratic administrations and at any point the President is going to have a lot of people in the executive branch who voted for the other side. If this partisan mismatch was such a massive problem, we'd have heard about more than a handful of individual cases.