"Little Punk Staffers" Fuming at GOP

[Joanne98]

First, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Capitol Hill staffers have no “contact with reality” and spend “their entire life being arrogant to visitors from back home.”


Then, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed Democratic staffers writing the financial regulatory reform bill as “little punk staffers.”


Then, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) accused House Democrats of employing “staff thugs” to watch over lawmakers during key House votes.


And then, the National Republican Congressional Committee produced T-shirts mocking Democratic aides who will lose their jobs in November if their bosses lose theirs.


Hill staffers often feel overworked and underappreciated. Now, they’re feeling abused — and they say that a handful of outspoken Republicans are to blame.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35645.html#ixzz0ktsa4yHj

[stubtoe]

1. These repubs are acting more and more immature all the time!

What a spectacle.

[bluestateguy]

2. I don't like congressional staffers either

Who do you think it is that leaks and leaks and leaks to the media all the time?

[MajorChode]

12. I think it's mostly those in the executive branch

There wouldn't be much congressional staffers could leak other than internal policy memos and emails which generally don't amount to much political fallout anyway. I'm convinced Boehner himself had something to do with the leak of the fake "doc-fix" memo.

[LynneSin]

3. Yes because the republicans have never used “little punk staffers" to push their agenda....

[dmr]

7. THANK YOU!!!

Every time I see that photo my blood pressure rises, because I know that that farce of a mob is part of the problem that brought us the Bush*/Cheney plague.
:grr:

[Mojeoux]

11. what are the numbers? n/t

[bondwooley]

4. It's all part of the GOP's re-branding strategy

That's right, they need to win back seats and they're coming out with a new brand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBKuRK1wD1A

(satire on YouTube)

[YOY]

5. Were some Dem. staffers rude to "tea baggers"?

Kind of hard not to be rude to them. Even informing them of simple protocol/manners could border on the patronizing tone.

And despite the obvious point that these people did not elect these representatives...I am sure the staffers were at least somewhat polite.

[cui bono]

6. Those t-shirts they made could be used against them.

[SteveM]

8. The best ally a bully has is the bullied. "...a handful of outspoken Republicans...

is to blame." That about says it all. Those bastards know us better than we know ourselves.

[arcadian]

9. If you ever want to have the upper hand with a staffer do this.

Tell them where you live and then ask them if they know where that is. In most cases staffers are not from the Congressman's district and aren't that well familiar with the district. It will completely throw them off guard. I'm not talking about the interns, I'm talking about the higher up people like Chief of Staff and so forth.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Republicans are mean bosses? WHO KNEW?? nt