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Veterans of past White Houses that faced hostile Congresses call life under the oversight microscope 'excruciating.'
By ANDREW RESTUCCIA and DARREN SAMUELSOHN 11/06/2018 05:00 AM EST
Working for President Donald Trump has never been easy, but his staffers can expect a whole new level of mayhem if Democrats win control of the House on Tuesday.
Democratic control of even one chamber of Congress would unleash an onslaught of hearings, subpoenas and document demands as lawmakers investigate everything from the presidents personal tax returns to his controversial policies on immigration, health care and the environment.
Beyond the huge consequences for national politics, the arrival of opposition-party oversight can make daily life in the White House unbearable for senior officials and their aides, according to more than a dozen veterans of the Clinton, Obama and George W. Bush administrations interviewed by POLITICO. Their assessments offer a gut-churning preview of whats in store for Trump administration officials should Democrats wield gavels come January.
White House staffers can expect to work past midnight battling congressional committees, wage exhausting fights over redactions to internal documents, suffer through mind-numbing meetings with government lawyers about the nuances of executive privilege and see their memos and emails leaked to the media by freshly-empowered Democratic investigators.
One former Clinton administration official compared the experience to getting dental work without anesthesia. A former Obama administration aide described the period after Republicans regained control of the House in 2010 as excruciating. A former George W. Bush administration official said it was one of the most demoralizing times of his career.
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SunSeeker
(51,662 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)have only themselves to blame. The party which moaned about deficit spending, immigration (while crops go unpicked for a major part of their voters (farmers, ranchers, etc.)) and other issues that they alone brought up (the rest of us were interested in valid issues such as keeping the ACA act, better paychecks, etc.
We voted in MO for an amendment to raise the minimum wage. This initiative was placed on the ballot after the republican controlled MO house of representatives rolled back (made invalid) minimum wage increases enacted in both KCMO and STLMO. I think it'll pass w/ flying colors.
Initech
(100,099 posts)And they have done absolutely nothing with their power other than rub it in our faces and reverse the progress made by the previous administration. Like high school bullies, they need a good swift kick in the ass.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Wintryjade
(814 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)There are lots of job prospects out there...if you don't like where you're at, hit the pavement folks!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Cockroaches really do hate having the lights turned on, don't they?
nolabear
(41,991 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,154 posts)If it's going to be that gut wrenching, perhaps a career change would be a wise choice.
Just sayin'
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,154 posts)And if you thought any of this current gang could do it, i'm sure you're WAY overestimating.
If it weren't for being born with a platinum spoon in their mouths, they would be on the side of an interstate collecting cans for the scrap aluminum pennies.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)His family of crooks was tight with the Scottish family of crooks that owned (or ran) the Bank of Scotland, and he visited there. A little known tidbit.
As noted in this old thread.... [link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1249676|
CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)budkin
(6,713 posts)Kidding (kinda). Fuck Trump.
skylucy
(3,740 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)administrations is that many of these bear no resemblance to the skilled professionals hired by previous administrations and are amoral/immoral, eagerly corrupt, intensely dishonest, ethically bereft to downright depraved, profoundly incompetent and intellectually deficient -- and see nothing wrong with it. We know most will have been far too ignorant, foolish and arrogant to protect themselves from investigation.
We also got yet another glimpse of the astonishing kind of people Trump and today's Republican leadership find useful with Kavanaugh's very dirty history as a political operative and shocking rant at his hearing. And he's an extremely intelligent version, compared to most.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)start investigations.
Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)That's all I got for ya....