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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 03:52 PM Nov 2018

'It's depressing as hell': Dem win would spell misery for Trump White House aides

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 president’s 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 what’s 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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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/05/trump-aides-2018-elections-961970

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'It's depressing as hell': Dem win would spell misery for Trump White House aides (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2018 OP
GOOD niyad Nov 2018 #1
Payback for the misery they've given America for the last 2 years. nt SunSeeker Nov 2018 #2
Absolutely. America is voting and putting safeguards on republicans in a lot of places, and they... SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #7
We have to, they are so out of control right now. Initech Nov 2018 #20
Not depressing at all, least not to me. 🤪 GWC58 Nov 2018 #3
Let it be. We have been in the misery for the last couple years. Turn the tables. Wintryjade Nov 2018 #4
Lawyer up scumbags n/t malaise Nov 2018 #5
Too bad so sad. MontanaMama Nov 2018 #6
They might as well work long hours - they ain't getting no dates. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2018 #8
Tough shit. GoCubsGo Nov 2018 #9
... nolabear Nov 2018 #10
There's Always Barber College ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #11
I always thought that W's true calling was armadillo herding. nt Grasswire2 Nov 2018 #12
I Think You've Overestimated Him ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #16
W actually spent some time herding sheep in Scotland as a youth. Grasswire2 Nov 2018 #19
Know what I say.... CelticWinter Nov 2018 #13
Russia is confident Trump won't have to deal with that budkin Nov 2018 #14
Too bad, so sad. skylucy Nov 2018 #15
A big difference between them and staffers from previous Hortensis Nov 2018 #17
Maybe our system should not allow only the party in the majority to Merlot Nov 2018 #18
Well, if we do win the house... Docreed2003 Nov 2018 #21
Womp womp! AwakeAtLast Nov 2018 #22

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
7. Absolutely. America is voting and putting safeguards on republicans in a lot of places, and they...
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 04:02 PM
Nov 2018

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

(99,915 posts)
20. We have to, they are so out of control right now.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 04:37 PM
Nov 2018

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.

MontanaMama

(23,242 posts)
6. Too bad so sad.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 04:02 PM
Nov 2018

There are lots of job prospects out there...if you don't like where you're at, hit the pavement folks!

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
11. There's Always Barber College
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 04:07 PM
Nov 2018

If it's going to be that gut wrenching, perhaps a career change would be a wise choice.

Just sayin'

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
16. I Think You've Overestimated Him
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 04:20 PM
Nov 2018

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

(13,564 posts)
19. W actually spent some time herding sheep in Scotland as a youth.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 04:37 PM
Nov 2018

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|

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
17. A big difference between them and staffers from previous
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 04:28 PM
Nov 2018

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.

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