More GSA buzz on the holiday party circuit

The other was the developing story about so that it is a part of the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs.The WP story Saturday was interesting. I was a bit ticked off at myself because I had heard about this earlier in the year and... well, it just got lost.Doan responded calling it a mostly budget tiff. But it seems that there is more there. There is a certain sense these days that, after slashing the procurement workforce, the government has increased the number of auditors. So the government is spending all sorts of time and effort to second guess the work that has been done rather than on investing in the people and the training for those people who can do it right in the first place.I don't know if that is true at GSA. I know that industry believes that was... well, wrong. They generally believe it was tantamount to using a wreaking ball to catch a fly, ie, the problem was not as big or as bad as they made it out to be. And there is a certain degree of GSA second guessing itself these days in part out of fear of the IG.But I have also heard from some people who know the GSA IG, , and they say he is a good guy.And then there is this part of the WP story:Terrorists?And with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) poised to take the helm of the House Government Reform Committee, it isn't a great time to be saying that your agency is cutting oversight. I don't think that is what GSA is doing, but... perceptions.Using the blog search site, you can .The other story is the Doan's efforts to reorganize GSA. As they say on the cable news networks, this is a developing story because it has not been finalized yet. As I mentioned last week, Doan has proposed making OGP a part of GSA's Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. The general take so far is that this is a terrible idea and unnecessary. Apparently OGP gets a standing budget allocation, so the move would give Doan the ability to move money around within the agency. And it is interesting because you can hardly find former OGP administrator John Sindelar's name on the GSA Web site these days.This move seems to be a real politicization of government policy issues and just seems to make no sense to me, but I'd be happy to hear more.