Is Congress Planning To "Diversify" Its Staffs?

The Commonwealth Conservative ^ | 7/9/2009 | C. E. van Avery

[SolitarySaint]

Is is just me, or is it a bit unsettling to have these two stories break on the same day? First came this story from the New York Post:

During the first five months of this year, with the Senate under the control of its first African-American majority leader, Smith, top Democrats bemoaned the lack of minority Senate staffers.

But instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers to be unskilled at their new jobs.

The move produced severe racial tensions, made worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided, "We've been told to only hire minorities."

Then came this from CQ via the New York Times blogs:

[King Moonracer]

"We've been told to only hire minorities."

They just keep pushing and thieving.

[jessduntno]

The move produced severe racial tensions, made worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided, “We’ve been told to only hire minorities.”

Been to a DMV, Post Office or Airport lately?

[sweetiepiezer]

Believe it.
Worse race relations than in the 60’s and I was in Detroit area then.

[TexasCajun]

''This is a black world''

[Paleo Conservative]

But instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers to be unskilled at their new jobs.

This is great news. The DemocRATS can fill their congressional staff positions with incompetents in order to meet quotas rather than get the best people available regardless of race.

[blam]

More AA (incompetent) government coming.

[Dick Bachert]

Sounds like they found a solution to the Hill Rat infestation described below. And it's about what one would expect from this collection of cretins and morons.

The HILL RATS 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!

[353FMG]

Remember that we have become a diversified, multicultural nation. In other other words, we have become a nation of sub-cultures.