Oh The Sweet Irony Of It !!! - How Tough Is It For GOP Staffers? - DailyKos

[WillyT]

How tough is it for GOP staffers?
by kos
Mon Dec 03, 2007 at 03:10:31 PM PST

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From Roll Call's (subscription only) Heard on the Hill:

GOP staffers are aware of just how tough a job market it is out there, but an e-mail that circulated around the Hill last week seemed to strike new fears about their career prospects. Chuck Knapp, communications director for Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), sent out a “farewell” e-mail common among job-switchers. In the message, he did the requisite thanking of colleagues and gushing over the job he was leaving. But it was a mention of Knapp’s new gig that had GOP staffers worried: Knapp announced that he was pursuing an exciting new opportunity ... as the manager of the Holiday Inn Express in Andover, Kan.

“I knew times were tough for Republicans on the Hill but looks like things might be sinking to a whole new level if these are the only options we have left,” said one GOP Congressional staffer.

Knapp -- who has been in Tiahrt's office for seven years and a political staffer for 17 -- goes on to swear to Roll Call that he's doing it for the regular hours, lack of travel, and being near his family and four kids, and it all sounds quite plausible and likely true. But the freak out amongst GOP staffers is still hilarious.

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Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/3/18240/1268

They helped engineer their own fate.

I wonder if they still think God works in mysterious way?

:rofl:

[Elspeth]

1. Nobody in DC leaves a job to "spend more time with the family" and no politico gets a hotel job for

the regular hours.

Sumpin's up.

[AlCzervik]

2. correction---Motel.

[Elspeth]

8. Nope. Holiday Inn Express is a hotel.

http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/home?&firstpoint=dcb2&cm_mmc=mdpr-_-yahoosspUS-_-ex-_-brand

[AlCzervik]

9. they can call it what they want but it will always be a motel.

[gratuitous]

3. No, I'm not a political consultant

But I DID manage a Holiday Inn Express in Andover, Kansas.

Oh my, it looks like the wilderness beckons to the GOP. You have to wonder how deep their bench is going to be in about five years without a steady stream of patronage jobs to hand out. Being in the minority without prospects sucks the hind ouitata.

[WillyT]

4. ROFLMAO !!!

THAT... was priceless!

:yourock:

And the wound? Doesn't it appear to be... self-inflicted?

:evilgrin:

[frogcycle]

5. next thing you know

they'll be wanting to raise the minimum wage!

[Dhalgren]

6. GOP staffer, sitting at a bar, soaking wet and disheveled, says,

"There is no God!"

[sandnsea]

7. Green Party Rise!!

Don't let this opportunity pass you by.

[Oilwellian]

10. They should contact Jeff Gannon

I'm sure he could point them in the right direction. :D

[rocktivity]

11. Your boy king Bush made America's economic bed

now lie in it.

:headbang:
rocknation

[WillyT]

12. Kick !!!

:kick: