Hey Teabaggers! Think You're Electing An Outsider To Clean Up DC? Think Again, Suckers!

From C&L:

All this anger and frustration at the state of the country is supposedly resulting in this huge anti-incumbent fervor, but do the tea baggers REALLY think that the Republican Party wants to fix what's broken in DC? Surely, you jest.

In anticipation of major GOP gains in next week’s elections, House Republican leaders have put together a list of experienced Washington hands to help fill top staff positions for the surge of newly elected outsiders.

Leading the effort are Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio), Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The leaders have put together a list of about 75 to 80 potential chiefs of staff, including current and former Capitol Hill staffers and lobbyists who have been recommended or have inquired about working for an incoming Member, according to several Republicans familiar with the document.

“There will be a lot of new, energetic Republicans coming to town — some of whom will have staff, others who will begin to assemble their teams,” Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said in an e-mail. “There’s a lot of important work to get done right out of the gate, so it’s important that newly elected Republicans have access to experienced, competent staff so that they can hit the ground running.”

One former GOP staffer said leadership has been actively, but informally, seeking individuals to fill the chief of staff positions for new Members from tough districts. The goal is to help the freshmen navigate Washington and to guide them through future election cycles.

“Every election cycle, the NRCC offers to assist our new members by providing a résumé file of qualified staffers,” NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain said in an e-mail.

Several Republican lobbyists said it is important for GOP leadership to assist incoming lawmakers with filling senior-level staff positions, especially for those who could face tough re-election races in 2012.

“You want to be sure that the newbies, when they hit town, do not necessarily bring their campaign staff to run their Congressional offices, because in some cases they are totally ill-equipped,” one veteran Republican lobbyist said. “Winning an election is one thing, running a Congressional operation is another. A lot of these folks are really, really new to politics.”

Besides being completely incoherent in their politics--wanting to have government out of Medicare, supporting tax cuts for the very wealthiest, adding billions of dollars to the deficit and yet, clutching pearls over the deficit, supporting the party that actually grew the size of the government while decrying the size of the government--tea bagging supporters of these upstart candidates think they're bringing in new thinking and new way of doing business in Washington DC.

Suckers.

Those entrenched, establishment Repubicans will put their entrenched, establishment lobbyists and staffers in the offices of any tea bagger who quixotically wins a seat. And those staffers, don't kid yourself, will make sure that nothing changes.

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1 Response to Hey Teabaggers! Think You're Electing An Outsider To Clean Up DC? Think Again, Suckers!

  1. Anonymous says:

    Very well said and i am sure most of you have seen what happened at that ran paul event were the girl got a foot to her head by a ran paul ss thug nazi loon teabagger, these a wipes now denie it and said he did not stomp on her head! BS watch the vid he put the heal of his nazi boot right on her temple and pushed it down and rush fat ass limbaugh said he did the right thing, YIKES wtf is this 1930,s nazi germany again in 2010 as it sure looks like it to me with these right wing neo- con fanatics doing all of this stuff and getting away with it too, These peeps are the low lifes today and still people con-don these acts which the entire world can see, How any normal peep can vote for rand paul now is amazing and i am sure they are still going to vote for that nut case as they are living in a state of denile, I have never seen these types of thing happen in any election other than the old films from germany back in the 1930,s when der furer got elected using the same tactics,, And who is to blame, yes i know its glen beck, fox & s palin PIG They are making the bullets but they do not fire them as that protects their sorry asses, they get the stupid flock of teabaggers to do that for them and they are doing it, I just hope some of them end up in the slammmer and see if the beck fox big boys bail them out,NOT,,Only the teabaggers do not know that, Beck has these nuts worked into a state of frenzy and if he told his mob of baggers to take cynide they would do it just like jim jones did a few yrs ago and man i wish he would do that as the world would be a better place without them and i would spit on thier graves, Its like the asylums have let the loons escape to be out with the normal peeps,,Its one thing to be a dem or a rep but these peeps are whacked in the head and they want to run my country, NOT!

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