Posted on 10/25/2012 3:08:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Adding another wild-card to the 2012 campaign’s final days, a former aide to Vice President Joe Biden has written a tell-all Washington memoir in which he lacerates the former Delaware senator as an “egomaniacal autocrat” who was “determined to manage his staff through fear.”
The book is hardly an objective study of the vice president, however. Author Jeff Connaughton, a Biden Senate staffer turned lobbyist, is by his own admission deeply disillusioned with the capital and embittered about his experience with the man who inspired him to enter politics.
Connaughton wrote “The Payoff,” which came out last month, in the fashion of guilt-racked whistle-blower: he was a party to a corrupt system and now wants to blow the lid off the game.
“I came to D.C. a Democrat and left a plutocrat,” he confesses.
As chief of staff to former Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.), Biden’s successor, Connaughton was radicalized by his unsuccessful experience trying to get an amendment to the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that would have broken up the country’s largest banks. So he left Washington politics and wrote what he believes is the unvarnished truth about the country’s political system. The big reveal: Big banks control both parties.
“It’s time people understand why – and how – Wall Street always wins,” Connaughton writes at the outset of his book.
He is harshly critical of his own party and the Obama administration, arguing that the president is no different than most other Washington Democrats in his willingness to kowtow to Wall Street.
President Obama and Biden, he writes, are “both financially illiterate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“egomaniacal autocrat” = pain in the arse
Definitely Not on Oprah’s Book of the Month selection list..
The slap downs just keep on coming.
I know this through a friend whose business partner got dumped by Biden after a brief affair.
So, he's also a horndog.
Aw, this is a shock. Joe’s always seemed like such a genuinely nice, kind, sincere guy. /s
They found it? Each time?
Whether the book is objective or not, I'd bet most everyone believes that as well as in other categories. LOL!
And he’s got a GREAT sense of humor!
Nothing like observing ZombieCrats eating one another. Washington stooge and insider wannabe trashing his former boss, The Gaffe-O’-Matic. Gotta love it.
Any idiot that believes “banks control” anything is suspect.
This is yet another left wing moron that is just pissed we aren’t left wing enough.
I’m sure, along with the “banks”, he blames “the jews”.
Sounds like a putz to me.
Nice to see it in print, nonetheless.
Coming from Politico, that's really pretty funny.
I don’t know why this guy thought Biden would give him a helping hand, since he’s a cheapskate when it comes to charities.
“both financially illiterate.”
As was their hero, FDR, whose playbook they have been using.
Are you SERIOUS??? SLOW JOE is CHEATING on JILLY the DOCTOR?? WHO would want that Certifiable Insane person anywhere NEAR them??? Really, Joe Bite Me is SCARY.
He's got a good boy phone and a naughty boy phone...
I forgot about that!
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