"Depressing as hell" Dem win to make White House aides struggle with oversight
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/05/trump-aides-2018-elections-961970
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.
Trump’s White House may have it even worse next year because of a rule change the House GOP approved near the end of the Obama administration granting unilateral subpoena
power to all committee chairs, forgoing committee votes. “I suspect they’re not going to ratchet that back,” former Obama White House counsel Neil Eggleston said of a potential
House Democratic majority.
Former administration officials said losing at least one chamber of Congress — much as Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did midway through their first terms, and President
George W. Bush did in his second — transformed their daily lives.
“It’s depressing as hell,” said Leon Panetta, the former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. “That’s the first thing that hit the White House, the fact that the American people didn’t like
everything that the president was doing. The president’s morale was pretty down.”
Some Democrats warn against overreach, saying that Trump — much like presidents before him — will be quick to claim the opposition is abusing its power. Obama officials believed
they were able to portray a House Republican fixation with the 2012 attack in Benghazi, which led to hours of hearings and thousands of email disclosures, as a politically-motivated
persecution.
“President Trump likes to be in the role of victim … Now he’ll actually have real bogeymen who are issuing subpoenas and document requests,” said Andrew Wright, an Obama White
House lawyer. “If they come in and harangue witnesses and treat them shabbily, then that could turn more people off. What you want is oversight to be a process that makes
government better.”
Boo *fucking* hoo.
Good
Wow being forced to care about what more than half the country wants instead of your own agenda. Its your fucking jobs
Misery for Trump's aides is joy to my ears.
The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming
along.
-Newt Gingrich
They are a regime that denies and accelerates climate change, normalizes racism and extreme nationalism, tries to make LGBT lives miserable, completely robs the poor to aid the wealthy and does everything it can to undermine democracy.
I hope they live nothing but miserable lives until they die tbh. All that goes well above merely having politics that one doesn't agree with, they are flat out terrible people.
Nobody will fuck them at DC Bars
Their jobs are now hell
Move back to Idaho, Aiden and Stacey. Your republican friends will welcome you there. Leave DC and never come back
I'll be pouring one out in the toilet for them :C
Good. I can’t wait to see them squirm under an endless wave of investigations and subpoenas.
....do we have precedent for handling a presidential suicide? I dont exactly expect it but you never know what might happen to Orange in Chief when his narcisism is faced with that level of scrutiny. I predict he will crack but the exact path of that crack is anyone's guess.
its gonna be worse, in 2015 the gop gave committee heads unlimited unchecked subpoena power (which they used for bengazigate, emailgate, irsgate and every other scheme to attack hillary) what Trump's WH is running into is something no prepared WH has seen, and this is Trump's half empty seat of the pants WH
If this turns out to backfire on the GOP, that will be some of the most beautiful and poetic irony.
Conspiracy theories are what propped up the GOP, and those same conspiracy theories will be what hurts their grasp on power.
I really hope we win tonight. We need to. We need to put their feet to the goddamn coals but that won't happen if tonight goes as wrong as 2016 did.
Misery for a group supporting open racism, sexism and taking advantage of a base that has been lied to for ages?
Oh no.
haha die mad about it bitch
News Flash: President Trump, incensed with the latest poll results, goes to take “angry poop”, dies after straining to hard and blowing every single blood vessel in his body. Doctors baffled “How did this not happen sooner??”. More at 11.
The Vice President takes over as President. If the Vice President is also unable, it goes to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, which is Paul Ryan.
President Pelosi 2019
Imagine being so entitled that you think it's justified to cokplain about it being slightly harder to commit treason.
oh no, what an awful tragedy
people who are totally ok with seperating kids from their parents and locking them in cages feeling bad now that they have to face what they've done.
unfortunately, also miles of other things that i wouldn't be able to fit into one post.
good, hope they get time to reflect on what's happened by their administration's actions.
It'd do no good. These people have no self-awareness and will just blame the other side for unfairly persecuting them.
https://youtu.be/Vrt7q6QKF5o?t=6
I believe the proper phrase is "womp womp"
Yep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk
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