Dems Fear DeLay Blacklist For K Street Jobs and DeLay's Sizzling Response to "The Hill" Story

The Hill ^ | 11/16/04 | Geoff Earle

[dk/coro]

I suspect that there is an element of truth to this gambit.

Having spent some time in that spiteful environment, the one thing that I can state as an absolute truth is that score-keeping is essential to survival.

Favors are never done without the expectation of payback; nor can one overstep invisible bounds of long-established decorum without consequences.

Of course there will be consequences to those associated with Daschle's longstanding obstructionism. My goodness, that is the way Washington works. The only surprise is that those caught in the lockout would imagine that it "couldn't happen to me" syndrome.

What will really be interesting to watch is the effect of her husband's embarrassing defeat on the lobbying career of Mrs. Daschle -- who had been flying pretty high these many years.

Scumbags all.

[Southack]

"One of the few people hiring Democrats in town is incoming Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). But Reid plans to bring in his own people, according to aides."

You see, that's just a downer. Here we are winning fight after fight, and along comes a Democrat clever enough to not hire from their entrenched pool of proven losers. Now we've got to take Senator Reid seriously.

[kittymyrib]

May I ask why these Dem losers think they are entitled to a cushy job when people all over the country are trying to find work to feed their families? By the way, discrimination on the basis of politics is not against the law because there are no laws covering this area. They need to be treated just like any other fired employee looking for a job.

[Dana113]

Why in the world is The Hill reporting unsubstantiated GOSSIP?? Have they also taken the low road with the major networks and the NY Times?

[Tacis]

Golly gee, I do hope the the negative, obstructionist, crapweasel, ultra-left wing dem scumbags are able to find the kind of employment they deserve! Tommie the Commie did, of course, refuse to be honest with America and make public his and the bag lady's tax returns. Thus, any potential employer would have to be willing to accept employees who thought that censorship, dishonesty, conspiracy and negative obstructionism were desireable attributes. This would be a tough sell for any honest employer, democrat or republican.

So, these neocommunist, anti-Americans have been working to destroy America and our way of life and now we are supposed to consider them to be competitive employees? The crapweasel dems are still delusional!!!

[Lancey Howard]

November 2, 2004 election results:

U. S. Representative District 22
Tom DeLay(I) REP 150,386 55.16%
Richard R. Morrison DEM 112,034 41.09%
Tom Morrison LIB 4,886 1.79%
Michael Fjetland IND 5,314 1.94%

[blam]

"Blacklist all of 'em. These Commie Dems should be forced to go home and live in the messes they helped create."

My thoughts exactly. Go home and get a real job.

[gogeo]

When conservatives lose an election, they go back to work in the private sector. When RATS lose an election, they find another government job.


It's a truism of RAT politics...you don't win, you don't eat.

[sweetliberty]

I guess they haven't heard that it is Kerry, not Bush, who will be inaugurated on January 20'th.

[tbeatty]

Daschle losing is why his staff isn't being hired.

The number one qualification of a Daschle staffer is that he knows Daschle.

Today, knowing Daschle and a quarter will buy you a phone call. If Daschle were still minority leader, it's a difference story. But he's not. buh bye.

[wardaddy]

I love DeLay....in a non homo way.

He is an hombre.

[sweetliberty]

" If y'er ridin' the wrong horse; then you face, and absorb, the consequences of your decisions and responsibilities"

They're democRATs. They don't believe in consequences OR in accepting responsibility for their decisions. It has to be someone else's fault and someone else's responsibility. ALWAYS!

[Captain Peter Blood]

I hate to say this but the House Repubs should not have passed that rule change for Delay to keep his job if indicted.
We Republicans cannot be passing such rule changes and protecting people like this.
Delay has run roughshod over a lot of people and sooner or later it catches up. Looks like it might be catching up with Delay and if so then he can't be protected.It may be it's time for Delay to step down and retire before all of the Repubs are targets from the Left for trying to protect Delay.

[danamco]

Guess they hate him as much we hated Daschle.


Or as much as they hate Newt!!!

[Digger]

Captain - take a cold shower & turn off Air America.

[Gondring]

I'd agree with you 100%, but that position is politically correct these days. ;-)

[Gondring]

oops..is NOT politically correct...

[Captain Peter Blood]

Look I said the same thing about Newt a few years back when the left was on him about something.
If Delay went over the line then we can't be changing the rules to protect him and his job.
Same thing the Dems were doing when Jim Wright was Speaker.
Delay needs to save us all a lot grief and just retire and step down and take any issue the Dems might have away with him.

[montag813]

Love DeLay's response. Boy he is an embattled man right now, and he is a fighter. There is such VITRIOL against him, unreal.

Did you see DeLay's response to his ethics victory today, surrounded by a phalanx of top GOP Reps? The gloves are off. The Democrats should be afraid, VERY afraid. DeLay will command a more disciplined and focused House leadership than has ever existed.

[Madstrider]

Democratic job-seekers face an acute problem this year, with numerous Hill staffers who worked for Kerry’s campaign now looking for work. Most of Daschle’s leadership staff also is on the market, with few places to secure a soft landing. New Democratic “527” groups are expected to ramp down now that the election is over.

Boo-hoo-hoo!

Why on earth should any K Street lobbying firm hire an ex-Daschle staffer anyway? The man with whom such an ex-staffer might be presumed to have any influence (i.e., Daschle) is no longer in the Senate. And, overall, Democratic influence in the Senate just decreased by 8 percent.

Democrats are a smaller minority in the Senate than at any time since 1996 and -- given what some have called the "natural majority" of 62 GOP Senate seats (2 seats for every "red" state won by Bush) -- it is highly unlikely that Democrats will regain their majority anytime before 2008 (and even that scenario would depend on Hillary's "coattails").

Former Democratic Senate aides are quite nearly useless to any K Street lobbying firm nowadays. The only power Senate Democrats have now is (a) to filibuster; (b) to "demand an investigation" into any allegations of GOP wrongdoing; and (c) to b!tch and moan to the media. None of that is any help to a business lobby trying to get favorable treatment from the federal government.

Also (not mentioned in this Hill article): With larger majorities now, House and Senate Republicans in the next Congress may ask for a larger share of committee seats and a reduction in Democratic committee staff. So that's more prospective Dem staff unemployment.

All and all, being an ex-Democratic staffer in DC now is like being the last kid standing in a game of musical chairs. The consequences of Democrats' shrinking influence in Washington -- and the small likelihood the Dems will recapture any branch of government before 2008 (or even then) -- is finally coming home to roost 10 years after the Republican Revolution of '94. About d@mn time, too!