I suppose wackos like Eric are easier to handle since they love drinking the leftist Koolaide. Because they don't have any business being anywhere near our halls of gov't and they know it. Remember Craig Livingstone? Easy to control and they will do anything to stay where they are.
Like Otter in Animal House, little Eric has been let in the Washington "fraternity" because he is obviously a "legacy".
So much for our "best and brightest".......
That was Flounder, not Otter. :D
You would have to go back to pre-1850 days to expect to find the best and brightest taking jobs in Washington. (With some few exceptions, probably pre-1824 days.)
Washington has been a cesspool for the most sleazy and least competent since FDR. That is the advantage of remote Government. The electorate cannot see all of the sleezebags their elected representatives hire.
Of course, in this case, one can only inquire whether the staffer has quite fallen to the level of his principal?
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