Jobs Still Elude Some Bush Ex-Officials

[kpete]

Source: Wall Street Journal

* FEBRUARY 21, 2009, 12:00 A.M. ET

Jobs Still Elude Some Bush Ex-Officials
By JOANN S. LUBLIN

The jobless rate is hanging high -- for many of the roughly 3,000 political appointees who served President George W. Bush. Finding work has proved a far tougher task than those appointees expected.

"This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting, including numerous former political appointees," said Carlos M. Gutierrez, Mr. Bush's commerce secretary. Previously chief executive of cereal maker Kellogg Co., he hopes to run a company again because "I have a lot of energy."

Only 25% to 30% of ex-Bush officials seeking full-time jobs have succeeded, estimated Eric Vautour, a Washington recruiter at Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. That "is much, much worse" than when Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton left the White House, he said. At least half those presidents' senior staffers landed employment within a month after the administration ended, Mr. Vautour recalled.

A handful of Bush cabinet officers have accepted academic appointments. Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson joined Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies as a fellow. Condoleezza Rice, previously secretary of state, resumed her Stanford University roles as a political-science professor and senior fellow at its Hoover Institution think tank.

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[Aviation Pro]

1. I have one thing to say.....

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Fuck you, assholes. Welcome to the party.

[rucognizant]

17. Ditto!

KArma DOES work!

[54anickel]

2. The Hoover Institution?!??!

[Historic NY]

6. conservative vacuum cleaner

[lunatica]

18. sucks all the energy out of the room

[No Elephants]

26. And all the money out of the nation.

[RJ Connors]

3. Right now, with things being the way they are,

companies are not real interested in hiring people whose primary skill is in how to destroy things and cause division everywhere they go.

[GinaMaria]

28. so right. This experience is probably a red flag to HR nt

[Downwinder]

4. So. sad.........n/t

[dkf]

5. Oh the irony.

Now they have to find a job in the crappy economy they created.

Maybe the reality will turn them into Democrats.

[Pharaoh]

7. Maybe they can get a job....

Helping to build the new GW Bush "freedom Library " :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Morans!!

[CJCRANE]

...

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[tanyev]

8. Well, they should go find a community college and brush up their job skills.

That's what their glorious leader advised.

[rainbow4321]

12. Or go and take 3 part time low paying jobs

So they can be uniquely Amurrikan in the eyes of their former leader.

[Jamastiene]

9. Schadenfreude

Bastards helped get us into this mess. x(

Let them reap what they have sown. :nopity:

[shadowknows69]

10. Sorry jagoffs, Dr. Evil isn't currently hiring new henchmen since Austin Powers 3

[Xipe Totec]

11. Doonesbury nailed it:

[babylonsister]

13. Now where did I misplace my sympathy?

Shucks, still can't find it. :nopity:

[Fire1]

15. Too funny!

[KansDem]

21. Maybe you can hire some ex-Bushie to find it for you?

$5 an hour, no benefits, no time off to tend to family matters, no health-care.

Oh, and make them wear one of the Corporate poloshirts that has your logo over the left breast and the words: "Babylongsister's Goper Gofer"

Don't forget to tell them how working hard and abiding by your rules is the quickest way to rise up in the ranks...

Oh, and don't forget to have them pee in a jar...

[cliffordu]

14. Bummer.

:rofl:

[Uben]

16. Finding employment should be easy......

....just use all that extra duct tape and plastic sheeting!

[lunatica]

19. Reap what you sowed you stupid jerks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Ha !! And I know how to be poor...they don't.

[47of74]

22. I don't feel the least bit sorry for them

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

23. We have had a few applications from Bush DOJ fucktards

In one resume a guy described himself as a "veteran of the war on terror"

[No Elephants]

27. Q. How low can you go? A,.Trying to confuse a prospective employer that you are

a veteran, as opposed to a classic chickenhawk.

[ozymandius]

24. 70% unemployment = radioactive

Who would touch these potential witnesses from a crime scene? Bush has cemented his reputation of burning all those who were unfortunate enough to work for him.

[Joe Chi Minh]

25. "Previously chief executive of cereal maker Kellogg Co., he hopes to run a

company again because "I have a lot of energy." Carlos M Gutierrez.

Well, hot diggity! I dare say they tout some pretty zany qualities on their CVs, but I doubt if there'll be a stranger one.