Clinton, Bush Advisers Steeped in Crisis Join Forces (Mark Penn, Karen Hughes)

The Wall Street Journal (excerpt, subscription) ^ | July 9, 2008 | Monica Langley

[HAL9000]

Excerpt-

WASHINGTON -- Two hard-charging political operatives are teaming up to create a bipartisan consulting organization to advise corporations in crisis -- as they work to burnish their own reputations as well.

Former Clinton strategist Mark Penn, chairman and CEO of public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller, is hiring former Bush adviser Karen Hughes as a vice chairman, the principals say. The political combatants, known for their partisan efforts, decided to combine forces to offer a one-stop crisis-communication and public-affairs shop to corporations caught in front-page headlines or faced with a changing Washington.

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[onedoug]

Swell

[FlingWingFlyer]

The first advice I’d give to corporations is don’t play the “green” crap in your TV ads. It only makes people mad. I don’t play the organized boycott stuff but I do tend to conduct personal banzai boycotts on any company that spews that “green” garbage in their TV ads. If they are too stupid to figure out that “global warming” is an Algore hoax and continue spreading the lie whether they believe it or not, I’m not going to support their company. If I’m doing it, I know others are also.

[TomGuy]

New tone in Washington

New tone in Washington

New tone in Washington

It could be lucrative for your career.

[How many former governmental advisers/politicians from opposite sides have ended up working together after they left government service? When we look closely, we see that the major purpose of the major political parties is to hoodwink the public in to thinking they are vastly different. In actuality, they are, at most, opposite sides of the same coin, each taking their turn in the power stucture.]

[dforest]

So......are there still people left out there that think we still have a two party system? Elections are only about which person gets to sit in the driver seat.

[metesky]

The political combatants, known for their partisan efforts, decided to combine forces to offer a one-stop crisis-communication and public-affairs shop to corporations caught in front-page headlines or faced with a changing Washington.

Two professional liars teaming up to do what they do best.

[Melchior]

Good idea. Karen Hughes was a screw-up at the State Department. Now she can take her minimal talents (and George W. Bush) and use them elsewhere.

[rod1]

Mark Penn needs some money coming in since the Clintons stiffed him.

[Carley]

And this morning I caught a quick look, (before puking) at Warren Christopher and James Baker teaming up to destroy the presidency and put our nation at risk with a new war powers act.