Change of Power in DC Will Throw Thousands of Democrats Out of Jobs
And thousands of Republicans will replace them : The Great Shellacking of 2010 will throw more than 2,000 Democratic congressional staffers out of their jobs. And it will send thousands of gleeful Republican staffer wannabes into overdrive to get those resumes up to the Hill to fill those vacancies. Here’s a back-of-the-envelope look at the numbers: On the House side, 60 victorious GOP candidates are expected to hire more than 1,000 new aides in their personal offices. The staff allocations on the House committees have yet to be worked out, but they often run 2 to 1 for the majority party, so that could add up to a shift of maybe 800 or so jobs. Then there are the new House leadership staffs and so on. On the Senate side, the six new GOP senators are likely to hire around 150 personal office aides, and more Republican committee staff members will be sitting behind the senators at hearings. Democrats, with a sagging local economy – K Street isn’t hiring the way it used to, foundations and think tanks are pressed, colleges are hurting, corporations are frozen – may well be pounding the pavement for quite a while. Sadly for the newly unemployed MoveOn, ACORN, Media Matters for America, and MSNBC won’t have enough openings to absorb them. GOP aides went through the same routine in 2006 and 2008. That’s the way of Washington. If you hitch yourself to a politician you run that risk.
Change of Power in DC Will Throw Thousands of Democrats Out of Jobs
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on November 5, 2010. Filed under