Posted on 10/30/2014 9:22:53 AM PDT by Parmenio
And what happened when the Republicans became the minority?
LOL
This drivel is just that, drivel.
Thank you, the best news I’ve seen all day!
IMO career staffers who bounce around from one congressman to another are, perhaps, the biggest problem with our legislative branch. Many are academics who live in a different world, others looking for handouts from lobbyists and others.
The second weakness in WDC are the lobbyists who hold such sway on what happens. Many, if not most bills up for consideration are written by them and for them. Senators and Congressmen become subservient to them.
How much do you want to bet that if the Repubs take over, the Democrats will extend the unemployment time (I believe it expired last year and they did not renew it) before the end of the year!
Every time a democrat loses its job, another angel gets its wings.
You don't count, you are not a Democrat.
The upside.....there will be 300 to 600 new job openings in DC for those who want to be Republican staffers and aides.
“Here’s something to brighten your day!”
Why, yes, it does!
They can go back to work for the other Mafia
New O’Keefe Video Allegedly Shows Democratic Poll Workers Assisting Illegal, Non-Citizen to Vote...
Nachum just posted the thread... Here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221383/posts
You’re right. There’ll be a whole host of things they’ll try to get through, but the House will hopefully block all of it.
Nothing to worry about, the Republicans will hire them.
BUT, HOUSTON, WE STILL HAVE A PROBLEM!
What is to be done about the HILL RATS? These are the allegedly “professional” staffers who are so named because after the election their current boss loses, they scurry like rats to a new member – ANY MEMBER (his politics frequently don’t matter) – just to remain close to the power. Most are flaming liberals and, after the “experienced” staffer shows the new guy where the john is, because they have been up there for decades, far too many of these new members rely on them for how to vote and get along in the thoroughly corrupt system of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” that has caused the mess in which we now find ourselves.
IT GETS WORSE!
Let’s say the new guy needs an “expert” on tax policy. Well, son-of-a-gun, the professional staffer JUST HAPPENS to have a college chum who works at the IRS! Need an “expert” on education policy. Darned if that secretary he just hired doesn’t just have an old teacher friend who works over at the Department of Education!
NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME – ESPECIALLY IN MALFUNCTION JUNCTION.
Looks like we will also need TENURE LIMITS on the Hill Rats with stiff penalties for breaking the rules!
I recently heard Gingrich tell Hannity that—horrors — the alleged Health Care Bill was almost certainly written at 3 am by 25 year-old liberal staffers, groggy on beer and pizza. Not sure why that was so shocking. HELL, that’s how nearly ALL the so-called legislation has been done up there for decades. It’s why there are two things one should never watch being made: SAUSAGE AND LAWS.
One of the KEY THINGS we all need to do BEFORE we get behind a new candidate to replace the 8 term retread who has sold us out nearly every term up there is to INSIST THAT HE DRAW HIS KEY STAFFERS FROM LOCAL FOLKS WHO MAY STILL HAVE A GRASP ON REALITY OUT HERE IN FLYOVER COUNTRY — THEN HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE ON THAT PLEDGE — OR REPLACE HIM NEXT TIME!
Sadly, it’s the ONLY WAY THINGS WILL CHANGE UP THERE!!
I don’t recall seeing stories like this back in 2006.
No need to panic. We’re in the middle of the Great Recovery. They’ll do just fine. Maybe some nonprofit will take them in and let them do volunteer work in West Africa.
Fire ‘em all!
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