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Hill panic: 300-600 Senate Dem staffers would be fired in GOP win
Washington Examiner ^ | October 30, 2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/30/2014 9:22:53 AM PDT by Parmenio

With projections of a GOP win growing daily, nervousness in Senate committee offices has turned to panic as an army of Democratic staffers braces to be fired, replaced by a Republican majority and their aides.

The spoils of political war? Estimates are that 300-600 Democratic committee and personal staff jobs would be on the chopping block if the Republicans pull off the expected victory.

“There will be a mass exodus of Senate Democrat staff from committees,” said one insider.

And Republicans will get to hire hundreds more aides. A loss on Tuesday that keeps the Democrats in charge of the Senate will cost no GOP jobs, other than those working for retiring lawmakers.

Under a Senate deal cut by Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the funding and staff breakdown on committees is about 60 percent for the majority, and 40 percent for the minority. It had been two-thirds majority, one-third minority, but the GOP cut the deal in order to keep their minimum funding at 40 percent.

Also getting hit would be the offices of Reid and other Democratic leaders.

For Democratic staffers, the potential layoffs couldn’t come at a worse time. According to officials, some will find jobs in the Obama administration, but those openings are few and will last only two years. And Hillary Clinton’s team is already loaded up with long-time aides, leaving few policy jobs for outsiders.

"There will be nowhere in the downtown private sector to go. Maybe 10 percent can find a slot in the Obama administration. It will be ugly," said a former White House aide now working on K Street.

That's because many lobbying firms are full-up with Democrats.

And there are already a sizable number of Democratic staffers already looking for work since their bosses are retiring.

“It could be a lot of individuals. And that’s not even counting all the people looking for work now with a retirement coming up,” said a key Senate Democratic staffer.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2014midterms; bedard; capitolhill; elections; layoffs; lobbyists; senateraces
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To: Parmenio

And what happened when the Republicans became the minority?

LOL

This drivel is just that, drivel.


121 posted on 10/30/2014 10:38:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: Parmenio

Thank you, the best news I’ve seen all day!


122 posted on 10/30/2014 10:41:35 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Parmenio

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.


123 posted on 10/30/2014 10:41:37 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: DoughtyOne

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!


124 posted on 10/30/2014 10:41:47 AM PDT by GYPSY286 (Politicians must USE their heads or Americans will LOSE their heads.)
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To: Parmenio

Every time a democrat loses its job, another angel gets its wings.


125 posted on 10/30/2014 10:44:03 AM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: cyclotic
Yea, I can imagine being cast out of work.

You don't count, you are not a Democrat.

126 posted on 10/30/2014 10:45:12 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: Parmenio

The upside.....there will be 300 to 600 new job openings in DC for those who want to be Republican staffers and aides.


127 posted on 10/30/2014 10:49:28 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Parmenio

128 posted on 10/30/2014 10:50:09 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Parmenio

“Here’s something to brighten your day!”

Why, yes, it does!


129 posted on 10/30/2014 10:54:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Parmenio

They can go back to work for the other Mafia


130 posted on 10/30/2014 10:57:54 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: txhurl

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


131 posted on 10/30/2014 10:58:07 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Are You More Likely to be Infected or Beheaded Today Than You Were 6 Years Ago? freeperPROCON)
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To: Ann Archy
SMARTEN UP!!!

Grow up Ann!

Quit shilling for the traitorous GOP-E!
132 posted on 10/30/2014 10:58:50 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: GYPSY286

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.


133 posted on 10/30/2014 11:06:00 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: Parmenio

Nothing to worry about, the Republicans will hire them.


134 posted on 10/30/2014 11:12:25 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Parmenio
So --- ahhh -- what's the BAD NEWS??

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135 posted on 10/30/2014 11:12:37 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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!!
 


136 posted on 10/30/2014 11:13:33 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Parmenio

I don’t recall seeing stories like this back in 2006.


137 posted on 10/30/2014 11:14:51 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Parmenio

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.


138 posted on 10/30/2014 11:28:28 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: Parmenio

Fire ‘em all!


139 posted on 10/30/2014 11:32:53 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Maybe some of those liberal political workers will get a real job...

But they'll have to get in back of a long line they've helped create.
140 posted on 10/30/2014 11:43:05 AM PDT by Resettozero
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