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 ...
LOL
Perfect.
He’s got a good boy phone and a naughty boy phone.
And Jill (miss Phd in English) probably bought them for him.
And he was always the "smartest man in the room," and he'd demand that everyone know it.
Ugh, I couldn't stand the guy just for his work with John Chaffee and Howard Metzenbaum in the senate to outlaw gun ownership.
Mark
We all knew Joey B was a POS 40 years ago.
After this election we’re going to see a Sea Change in political information. This will be the death of the old media and the rise of the new within the mainstream. The silent majority is rising fast and it is fear that finally woke them up. I’ve been digging for news for 25 years and shut off the MSM so many years ago I can’t remember. Few people are left that believe a Good Morning America or CNN broadcast. Just 5 years ago they were highly trusted. Now people openly laugh in cafes and bars at the MSM lies.
former Delaware senator as an “egomaniacal autocrat” who was “determined to manage his staff through fear.”
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The laugh-gaffe master is a jerk-wad boss?
I could see that. He is a small man. No virtues.
My nephew was in the service with a former military attache who had been assigned to Al Gore
Said he was the biggest SOB he ever worked for
Those democrat Veeps and politicians in general are just great human beings
Maybe after they lose they can throw all they money into a bed & breakfast like McGovern.
AKA .... douchetastic.
I'd make that "Abysmally Ignorant" to cover all the eventualities.
Regards,
GtG
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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