Maybe people aren’t hiring former Bush administration officials for the simple reason that they were all members of a transparent crime organization. Or maybe they’re not hiring them because they were all criminally incompetent. If they don’t run your company into the ground, they’ll cause some kind of public relations disaster when they’re hauled before a grand jury. Who in their right mind would hire even a low-ranking official of the Bush administration? Based on what? Their connections? The Republicans don’t run anything anymore.
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Key Bush Gitmo advisers still on job at Pentagon
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."There are tens of thousands of highly qualified people out there looking for jobs–although the Republicans deny a depression exists. (I’m wondering when Jindall and Barbour get recalled for refusing stimulus help.) It’s no mystery that retread failures don’t get hired. Plus there’s actually not enough cash floating around on K Street to provide them all with GOP welfare.
It will be interesting to see how many become ex-Pats like Perle, and simply follow the money to the Orient or elsewhere.
When it comes to private industry, even Republican businessmen know how worthless these neocon hacks really are. And, if any refresher is needed just check out those worthless pieces of excrement that Bremmer appointed to various civilian posts in Iraq. Disaster following upon disaster. I guess that’s what the Republican Party has become – an employment office for the politically handicapped. Other than a rich hunting ground for the predatory rich.
Who would hire the proven incompetent and criminally inclined?
It’s the problem that happens when True Believers’ religion has been exposed.
The whole idea of “governs best, governs least” has been exposed as a means for crooks to profit. The “cutting taxes will balance budgets” has been revealed to be a sham that is bankrupting our country.
There are still plenty of true believers, something like 25-35% of our country. Just enough in California to create a disaster out of a crisis. And there are the Jindals of the Right who are making a stand in the hope of getting elected to a higher office in the future.
The U.S. has come to a crossroads. We can recognize that government in this complex society is necessary and good, or we can go the low-tax road and end up in Honduras, where the rich overlords live in luxury behind walls and the rest of us are herded this way or that by private police forces that function as death squads to eliminate dissent.
“The Republicans don’t run anything anymore. “
I think that’s more it. The Bushies network isn’t worth much influencing the current players
Today for example, no matter how well the wars had gone, given the election, Wolfowitz would never get a job at the World Bank. And they certainly wouldn’t look past is relationship with WB employee and foreign national Shaha Riza, or the crazy ex Bushies he appointed to the bank.
But I think the Bush White House was so insular and antagonizing that they didn’t make many new friends in Washington. The tightly run, take no prisoners, command and control style that the Texas mafia brought with them will leave with not much more influence than they came with.
Another example, on principle W gave out almost no pardons and none that were controversial save maybe the border guards. I agree with that, but W wasn’t thinking at all about the friends he could make or that his staff might need. Cheney is rumored to be furious that he didn’t give full pardon to Libby and a few of the other players in Plane case.
i think you’re right.
they kept the bush white house stocked with loyalists, from what i understand they didn’t socialize outside that network, and created a total echo chamber. people with different ideas like o’neill and shinseki were forced out for blaspheming against the Boy King and his Chancellor.
When your only network is Liberty Univeristy and sone cranks at National Review (if that much) post-white house jobs can be tough to find.
hopefully they’ll all lose their homes and starve to death out on the street. It would do me a world of good to learn that Alebrto Gonzalez was found frozen in a dumpster, dead from years of exposure from homelessness.
I don’t think it has anything to do with politics. They were all just damned incompetent. Who’d want any of them to run a company. (To be sure, the competition on the CEO level isn’t that stiff, but there is the insider advantage, and they aren’t insiders anymore).