How do you know that the Trump administration can’t find many qualified people to work for them?
“I have people knocking down my door to talk to the presidential personnel office,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “There is a huge demand to join this administration.”
I never met anyone who boasted that they worked in the Nixon administration. The few I’ve seen do that are people like Pat Buchanan who are more famous for defending Nazi war criminals than they are far whatever they might have accomplished as hatchet men for Tricky Dick. It’s more common for Nixon veterans to spend the rest of their lives in efforts to grift off their infamy or to make mostly futile efforts to atone for their sins.
No one with their head screwed on right wants to have ‘Trump’ on their résumé. The president’s main accomplishment in office so far has been to make having worked in the Bush administration look noble by comparison.
I particularly like how one anonymous lawyer described his experience as he went through the process of getting a job working for Trump.
Another person in line for a senior legal post who pulled out after Comey’s firing said, “I decided, ‘What am I doing this for?’ ”
He described a disorganized paperwork process that threatened to leave him unprepared for Senate confirmation, and said he was disgusted that Rosenstein was “hung out to dry” as the president claimed at first that the deputy attorney general orchestrated Comey’s firing.
“You sit on the tarmac for quite some time, you see smoke coming out of the engine and you say, ‘I’m going back to the gate,’ ” he said.
There’s an overwhelming sense that this is an administration that is imminently going out of business. More than that, though, the top executives are getting indicted. Only a fool volunteers to get involved in something like that.
I have a brother-in-law who’s a total jerk; always has been, always will be. He and his wife and their adult daughter are essentially estranged from the rest of my husband’s family and we just don’t see them anymore.
The BIL and his daughter signed on a couple of years ago to the RNC, and she was a player in the Republican campaign. He moved from their home in Williamsburg, VA to live closer to DC so they could be on the Republican “team”.
Since we no longer correspond, I don’t know how they feel about this so-called administration. The BIL was a political science major in college and he’s always been a diehard Conservative, but he’s also a racist and I don’t know where his tolerance level is for ineptitude. He may be so deeply devoted to the party that he’ll champion any guy with an R next to his name, but I have to believe he’s uncomfortable and frustrated with Trump.
I sure hope so. I hope that this administration goes down in flames, big time, and those two go right along with it.
Gee, that sounds kinda mean.
Your brother in law sounds like a character I know. He posts scorching screeds on Facebook about Illinois teachers’ pensions. He takes pains to post bar graphs and pie charts of how outrageously big and irresponsible Illinois teachers’ pensions are. This complete TeaTard is one of thee worst hypocrites. After he experienced three small businesses he owned fail, and a depleted 401 K from 2008’s meltdown, it’s now obvious that the majority of his retirement money will come from his own wife’s Illinois teacher’s pension! King of Durrrrrr or what?!?!
I used to have a friend who ranted frequently about how corrupt and inept and lazy and useless government workers were, and how she never took a dime from the government for anything.
Her husband worked for the post office. He, of course, was wonderful.
Even Sheriff David Clarke sees smoke wafting from the engines.
Inspired from a shorter post at Eschaton – excellent comment on post Trump job prospects:
Hiring mgr/partner/CEO: what’s this gap on your resume?
Trump alumni: I was in jail.
HM/P/CEO: That’s funny some of the folks here were speculating you were in the Trump administration.
Trump alumni: I assure you – I was in jail. For pedophilia.
HM/P/CEO: All right. We’re going to offer you the position but if we find out on the background check you worked for Trump … I’m sure you understand our position and the right to protect our reputation.
Trump alumni: I need to let you know I’ve been a victim of identity theft and some jackass using my name, address, and social security card was working for Trump, Sessions, and even got involved in Kushner’s failed defense. Laughable really. I never saw him, no cable in prison, but friends have told me he even had plastic surgery just to look like me.
HM/P/CEO: Let’s hope for your sake your prison alibi holds up.
Trump has learned one thing in bidness: You can encourage continual effort in employees by making them continually nervous. In other words, if you don’t know from one to the next if you will have a job, you will strive to perform.
This is a total failure in government. If you are in the Administration, you must be on the team, confident in the support of the POTUS, always pushing the agenda. So, Trump’s policy of never encouraging the underlings is a horrible mismatch to what is needed for his position now. Even Jeff Sessions, who should be the most comfortable person in DC, is not clear from one day to the next if DJT support him.
It’s a failed approach. But DJT is too stupid to understand this, and no one can tell him how stupid he is.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that people who served in Obama’s Administration aren’t having any trouble finding jobs.
Abu Gonzalez never got his full due as a criminal attorney general in the post-Bush world
>> Only a fool volunteers to get involved in something like that.
Even rats are too smart to run onto a sinking ship.