Failing Sideways
shadow gubbmint
Srly. We could vote out all the incumbents tomorrow and nothing would change. Each rep/senator has piles [that’s a new math term, yanno: piles] of staffers. They don’t bring all those staffers with ‘em from home—most are local DC types, moving from office to office, department to agency to office in an endless loop of internecine clusterfuk influence. It really is about who ya know. ...and, yanno.
So any Congressional Noob has to vow [and follow through] to start clean with new people who’ve never set foot inside the beltway in their entire lives. And vow [and follow through] to clean out Foggy Bottom and all the other gajillion and one [more new math terms] random agencies and start over with other folks who also haven’t ever set foot inside the beltway in their entire lives.
Here’s a small example to demonstrate I’m not talkin’ through my hat.
President Barack Obama’s former aide Louis Caldera, who resigned after authorizing a costly and frightening Air Force One photo-op over New York City, is flying higher today.
He has been hired by longtime Democratic activist John Podesta at the Center for American Progress, where he will be a senior fellow and will focus on higher education and national security…
Podesta, president and CEO of American Progress, is a former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton and was a co-chairman of Obama’s transition team. Caldera worked for the Clinton administration as managing director and chief operating officer for the Corporation for National and Community Service and was secretary of the Army.
former “secretary of the Army” ≠ “just a staff underling who was out of the communications loop”
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