GOP staff: Our bosses 'threw staff under the bus'

[ProSense]

GOP staff: Our bosses 'threw staff under the bus'

by Joan McCarter

Congressional Republicans decided that one way to really jam Democrats was to make them vote to keep their subsidy for their health insurance by killing a Republican spending bill that would take them away. Who they were really jamming are the people who work for them.

There's a new front in the battle over Obamacare: Republican congressional staffers are angry at their bosses for trying to deprive them of affordable insurance. <...>

"I understand it politically, and as a talking point," one rank-and-file Republican staffer says of the Vitter and McCaul measures. "But Congress literally threw staff under the bus on this…You're hurting staff assistants who are sorting your mail."

Staffers don't make as much money as you may think, he adds. "When I started on the Hill answering phone calls, I'd hear people saying, 'You're a rich congressional staffer,' and I'm like, 'you must be out of your mind.'" Some low-level congressional employees make as little as about $28,000 a year; House staff salaries are the lowest they've been since 2007.

The main reason the subsidy for congressional staff covered by Obamacare exists is because leadership from both parties demanded it: They didn't want to risk losing staff who wouldn't be able to afford to work for them any more if they had to pay the entire bill for their insurance. Now House Republicans are showing them how much they really care. The good news is, we should get some much juicier leaking about the GOP civil war from anonymous staff looking for revenge.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/30/1242732/-GOP-staff-Our-bosses-threw-staff-under-the-bus

People really need to get a sense of the level of depravity being engaged by the Republican lunatics in Congress


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/30/1242666/-Republicans-were-dead-enders-then-they-re-dead-enders-now

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[Berlum]

1. "Ha ha. Staff have only themselves to blame for letting the Republicons SUCKER them." - Observers

"As the Republicons have suckered so many Americans with their billionaire backed propaganda networks. Ha Ha."

- Sharp-tongued Observers

[C_U_L8R]

2. They're patsies if they don't quit

Enabling fools. The GOP was never the smart party.

[global1]

4. Again Staff - They Are Working For People That Don't Have Their Best Interests In Mind....

Just like Repug voters that continue to vote against their best interests and shoot themselves in the foot.

It's unfortunate - but from their perspective - they have a job.

[lpbk2713]

3. Or ... don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

It's gotten to the point that only the most hard core GOP ideologues can listen to the
bullshit these assholes spew for the sake of justifying their own smarmy existence.

[think]

5. Can Republican lawmakers really be this delusional? Rhetorical question /nt

[ruffburr]

6. So will they-

Realize how fast their masters will kick them to the curb? And if they do will they quit and tell all they know about the re-pubs real agenda and etc. stuff that we have yet to hear exposing the smarmy under belly that is R/W pol's ? One can only hope.