REPUBLICAN LOBBYIST MARKET TAKES A NOSEDIVE
Some out-of-work GOP staffers may face unemployment

From the Raw Story courtesy of Crooks and Liars:

With hundreds of Republican aides set to lose their jobs as Democrats take over Congress, K Street veterans tell Roll Call that some may have to file for unemployment benefits.

"The hundreds of Republican staffers — not to mention more than a few Members — who will lose their jobs in the next few weeks are going to face a hostile marketplace on K Street as unemployed Republicans flood the market," Kate Ackley writes for Roll Call.

"While GOP aides are flooding the town with their résumés, it’s now plugged-in Democratic aides whom companies and firms really have an eye for," the article continues.

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While I'm very much of the opinion that corporate lobbying ought to be totally banned, it's hard to not get a chuckle out of this dilemma facing all these former Hill staffers. After all, the Republicans created this problem. In the drive to turn the corporate lobbying industry into a GOP campaign cash cow, disgraced former House Majority Tom DeLay and others demanded that if lobbyists wanted action in Congress, they would have to donate heavily to the GOP and hire only Republicans as lobbyists. Consequently, after fourteen years of Republican rule, there is an enormous over-supply of GOP lobbyists and a massive shortage of the Democratic variety. Heh. Republicans understand how the market works: they're worthless now, and Democrats are hot shit.

The thought of unemployed Republicans standing in line to collect the unemployment checks that they ideologically oppose is just delicious. Now that the GOP is dead, irony is back in spades.

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