Out-of-Work GOP Aides Face Tough Road Ahead - WHAAAAAAA

[powergirl]

Boo Hoo. Don't you love how all these "free market" rethugs can't let go of the ole' government "dole" - read on

The hundreds of Republican staffers — not to mention more than a few Members — who will lose their jobs in the next few weeks are going to face a hostile marketplace on K Street as unemployed Republicans flood the market.

Tuesday’s election results sent at least 20 incumbents in the House and Senate packing and flipped control of the House to Democrats. It also flipped a decade-long trend of Republicans as the darlings of the lobbying sector. While GOP aides are flooding the town with their résumés, it’s now plugged-in Democratic aides whom companies and firms really have an eye for.

“It’s going to be more of a buyer’s market for Republican staffers and a seller’s market for the Democratic staffers,” said Mike Tongour, who runs Tongour Simpson Holsclaw, a boutique lobbying firm with no Democrats on the payroll. “We’ve had a couple of phone calls from Democrats who are thinking about leaving the Hill, and we’re interested in talking to them.”

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But some probably will go on unemployment and some will end up leaving town altogether, K Street veterans said.


http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_46/news/15926-1.html

[AIJ Alom]

1. Uh oh...will this help swell the ranks of freepers, and make Jim Rob's

coffers that much bigger ?

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. and this is what makes most people so

distrustful of politicos. I don't have objections to people working for the lobbyists, but there has to be a way to make sure that everything's on the up & up. It just makes me kinda nauseous, and nervous at the same time.

[muntrv]

3. Wal-Mart is always hiring.

[AIJ Alom]

5. Or work for target.

Check out that deer running (from Cheney) on CNN videos.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. Join up kiddies! The Army needs little patriots like yourselves.

Lucky for them the Republicans weren't able to end unemployment...

[tanyev]

6. Good thing for them this economy is so STRONG!

Bwahaha.

[williesgirl]

7. Just ask * & your repuke leaders - good jobs are plentiful! Bullshit - recommended