The unusual thing about this article (“Losing the Class War“) is not its message. Its message is in fact pretty straightforward: to wit, that the Democratic nominees for Senator and Governor in Ohio are both trying, and failing, to rouse public anger against the Republican nominees through some good, old-fashioned pseudo-populist demagoguery. They’re trying this because both Gov. Strickland (who is losing his re-election bid to John Kasich) and Lt. Gov. Fisher (who is losing the Senate race to Rob Portman) are heavily reliant on Big Labor to generate some sort of buzz for their moribund campaigns; and they’re failing because under their watch Ohio’s economy has, well, tanked. More to the point, the population of Ohio is aware that the current leadership team of Ohio consists of two gibbering, would-be rabble-rousers who apparently have, as they say, Poor Impulse Control. So, again, that’s not the unusual thing of that article.
No, the unusual thing is that it was on NPR: there’s some sort of partnership thing going on there with National Review Online. I guess somebody over at NPR can put two and two together, and get Armageddon…
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Few will lose even a day's pay if the Majority changes.
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 14th at 12:22PM EDT (link)First, it is highly likely that the incoming Republicans will hire/keep a lot of them, especially those on committee staffs. That’s wrong, stupid even, but they’ll do it because the former Democrat staffers are “experienced.” What Republicans can’t seem to get is that those people are NEVER going to be fully loyal to a Republican leadership.
Second, those who do actually get shuffled out of Congressional staff slots will just go to some appointment in their home state if it is Democrat controlled and they can stand the humiliation of returning to the home state as something other than a high-powered Congressional staffer. Or, if they’ve been around long enough and are well connected enough, they’ll go to work as lobbyists and for the second tier there is a vast array of unions, law firms, think tanks, and other sorts of Democrat front groups that will pick them up and help them get by until the World returns to normal, as they see normal, and the Democrats are back in power.
In Vino Veritas
NPR is comprised almost entirely of liberals
NotSoBlueStater (Diary) Tuesday, September 14th at 12:47PM EDT (link)But they are liberals with journalistic integrity. They will alway pick the Democrat-friendly topic, but they will then go wherever the story takes them.
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