Still Looking: Bush Officials Out of Work
By Susie Madrak Sunday Feb 22, 2009 6:30amYou know, I usually have sympathy for anyone in this position but I'm having trouble tapping into the empathy for this bunch:
The jobless rate is hanging high -- for many of the roughly 3,000 political appointees who served President George W. Bush. Finding work has proved a far tougher task than those appointees expected.
"This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting, including numerous former political appointees," said Carlos M. Gutierrez, Mr. Bush's commerce secretary. Previously chief executive of cereal maker Kellogg Co., he hopes to run a company again because "I have a lot of energy."
Only 25% to 30% of ex-Bush officials seeking full-time jobs have succeeded, estimated Eric Vautour, a Washington recruiter at Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. That "is much, much worse" than when Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton left the White House, he said. At least half those presidents' senior staffers landed employment within a month after the administration ended, Mr. Vautour recalled.
A handful of Bush cabinet officers have accepted academic appointments. Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson joined Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies as a fellow. Condoleezza Rice, previously secretary of state, resumed her Stanford University roles as a political-science professor and senior fellow at its Hoover Institution think tank.
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Operating a license plate stamping machine.
They can make personalized plates:
IMACROOK
BSHCHIMP
GOPSUX
The possibilities are endless.
Breaking rock until kingdom come.
They should be in jail.
Out of the multiple suggestions of what could be . . . this by far is the most truthful!
Modelling orange jumpsuits in a supermax.
shrink-wrapping boxes of software for Microsoft.
give them the choice: prison time in Attica or Folsom or Trenton State, or landmine tester in Afghanistan.
a lifetime of penury as depicted here.
practicing tongue swirls...
...of what the WSJ prints. everyone oughtta know damn well all the Neo-con Bush minions who served, will be taken care of sooner or later, by some company, somewhere from the military/pharma/agri/banking/energy industrial complex. (the most intelligent and devious will be rewarded with exclusive memberships in Neo-con think tanks and given lifetime membership to the Bohemian grove)
My guess is these people (former Bush officials?) are working right this very moment! providing this very fodder for this "Wall st urinal" propaganda!
did'nt Chimpster do the same thing yesterday (or somethin') like walk into a hardware store and ask for a job as a greeter? (as if)
I dunno about that. With the economy tanking - hell, I'll bet even Carlyle Group has taken a hit - there might not be all the extra money floating around to give 3000 of these nitwits work. As the Republicans are no stranger to throwing the little people to the wolves if I was one of these low level party hacks I'd be just a little concerned right now.
What's the point of hiring one of these losers when the "access" their former careers gave them is (obstensibly) now totally irrelevant? There ain't much cachet-for-the-sake of-cachet associated with these clowns at the moment...
http://conservatard.files.wordpress.com/2007/...
tanks!
Team try outs for gitmo with broken pool cues.
My money is on condi skewering John Yoo
they could clear brush for their fearless leader down on the ranch. Oh wait, they wouldn't be qualified.
Since when has Bush hired anyone qualified?
That was one of the big problems with the administration over 8 years, wasn't it.
It was always more important to put a loyal-Bushie apparatchik into the highest positions rather than someone who was actually qualified.
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they could volunteer and do work for the homeless and disabled veterans they previously worked so diligently to create.
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..work in the Prison Lye-berry!
Life is tough. Welcome to the real world the rest of us inhabitate.
How can they be out of work? There's always jobs for professional liars. Did FOX Noise stop hiring?
My little round brown a-hole bleeds for them.
are *really* stupid. Had to be, to make Rove & Cheney look smart. Nothing could make W look smart.
At least he was in January when this was written.
Austin American-Statesman, 1.08.09
They could become peanut butter tasters for the Peanut Corporation of America? Or put chinese made toys in their mouth's to test for safety and lead.
Or how about drilling in coal mines demmed unsafe, to see whether or not they collapse. They could also beemployed tasting arsenic laced waters to see what level it really is toxic at.
Let them test out their own policies, and see how they like it.
Or Mellon-Scaife can just fund a whole bunch of new right wing tHINK tanks, where liars and corporate whores can prosper while doing absolutely nothing constructive - just like the Bush administration they worked in.
Strap down the ones who are allergic to the legumes!
Brilliant!
Although slightly off topic, it's important to realize that the Republicans have strong footholds throughout the Federal bureaucracy. Remember that Republicans have had control of the Executive Branch for 20 out of the last 28 years. You have to know then that the SES (Senior Executive Service) and high level GS (General Schedule) have a stranglehold on what goes on regardless of what the new, more progressive, political appointees might have to say.
Still, the Bush administration was probably able to plant, prior to his departure, enough loyalists in enough agencies to at least muck things up for Obama.
I think the FCC is a good example, no?
The problem runs across almost all Federal departments and agencies. I think we all underestimate what it meant for Republicans to have control of the Executive Branch for 20 out of the last 28 years. If Obama thinks he has friends entrenched in the bureaucracy, he's seriously mistaken.
It's way past time to clean out the Senior Executive Service. Many there will only seek to undermine him regardless of what they may say publicly.
Karma's a bitch, ain't it?
With their anti-union attitude, I'm sure Burger King would snap them up...
As soon as they learn Spanish.
its hard work. They wouldn't last a half-shift.
With booze, where half-drunk housewives bring their kids on weekday afternoons? Please tell me where...
...I guess being appointed and supporting the former Bush administration has all the prestige it should, considering how damaged the country is from them. I have absolutely no sympathy at all, nor do they deserve any.
I don't give one royal fuck. Not one.
A degree not worth the paper it was printed on from Religious agenda school.
Put them in the army. Front lines to, let them exprence what there propaganda created.
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