Capitol Hill's So-Called 'Little Punk Staffers' Respond To GOP Comments

Politico:

Hill staffers often feel overworked and underappreciated. Now, they're feeling abused -- and they say that a handful of outspoken Republicans are to blame.

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Comments

[fr33d0mhawk]

09:49 AM on 04/20/2010

So, Boehner insults Democrat staffers who work 80 hour weeks for little pay, but says nothing about the GOP staffers who are the fall guys to pay for Christian family value lesbian bondage club retreats.

Maybe what Boehner meant was that the staffers that blew the whistle on GOP misapprorpiation of funds are punks for outing the family values compassionate conservatives for what they are, monumental hypocrites. The biggest sin that a GOPer can commit is blowing the whistle on unethical or illegal activity because whistleblowers show a lack of loyalty and even worse, they show disobedience, I mean the staffers are either on the side of America by covering up gay bondage club outings, or they are on the side of the terrorists. Never has GOP patriotism been so titilating, pun intended.

[MyrtleJune]

03:45 PM on 04/13/2010

OMG.... This is the funniest story I've read to date on the Republican meltdown. I find it hilarious the Republicans are speaking the words "less partisan". HA! AND, those staffers are NOT your personal slaves. They have lives and lunch hours which belong to them.

"Congressional staff should treat every American citizen with respect"........ WHEN the American Citizen want to ACT respectfully, then they will be treated with respect. NO ONE has to put up with being stalked, and verbally assaulted. No one.

Get your act together Republicans. GROW UP!!!

[angelrubes]

04:40 PM on 04/13/2010

Classic school yard bullies!

[ReedYoung]

10:57 AM on 04/14/2010

What's that? "Give me your lunch money or else" set to iambic pentameter? ;-)

[soulgirl]

03:40 PM on 04/13/2010

Boy the poor staff is not even safe with the insecurities and frustration of the GOP-who are the adults here? Certainly not GOP's-wow-sick sick sick people

[AlindaFaye2000]

03:01 PM on 04/13/2010

It's about time they stick up for themselves.

[Whitley2009]

10:56 AM on 04/13/2010

HOOF IN MOUTH DISEASE!

[nana4g]

10:10 AM on 04/13/2010

This is just another example of behavior that is crude, immature, ineffective, and emotionally unstable, unbecoming to a Congressman, the Minority Leader of the Senate. They have done nothing but bad mouth everyone except themselves for the past year even when every week there is scandal and disgrace on the part of their own; even when every protest of their followers is vile, slanderous, and disrespectful, and has nothing to do with what they purport to protest. They have mocked and demeaned everyone, from the unemployed to the homeless to those who are sick and unable to purchase healthcare. They have lost every shred of integrity, character, and respectability. This is who they really are and explains why, when they are in positions of authority and decision making, their outcomes are disastrous. They have displayed a group and individual personality that I want nowhere near the red phone or the budget or the Constitution ever again. Mentally unstable, devoid of character, disrespectful to the electoral process and to the people of this country. They tossed their long held identity of morals, religion, family values, and patriotism--all just another strategy--and devolved into anti American, radical, rightwingers who insult everyone and advocate violence.

[AlindaFaye2000]

03:04 PM on 04/13/2010

He comes from the unstable part of Ohio along with the likes of Jean Schmidt. It's too bad that here is Ohio the unstable are allowed to form congressional districts that keep sending these people to Washinton.

[seenitall]

09:34 AM on 04/13/2010

Steney Hoyer thanked his punk staffers on the floor of the House. John Boehner, being the 6th grade bully he is, threw his breakfast burrito at them.

[beebster]

09:01 AM on 04/13/2010

The rethug party owns the crazies and it will be their downfall.

[AlindaFaye2000]

03:06 PM on 04/13/2010

Fingers crossed and hoping.

[beebster]

08:59 AM on 04/13/2010

Attaching staffers is nothing more than a cheap shot. The way I see it is that the rethugs have nothing else going for them and its their death throws. They are eating away at themselves from within, the people watching this who are not brain washed by fake news and have some working grey matter will see this for what it is. And alot of the other tactics the rethugs are using now like, ambushing Al Gore on his way to lunch for an interview he clearly did not agree to.

[jukesgrrl]

01:49 AM on 04/13/2010

Many of these little punk staffers dedicate their lives to serving their country in this way. They run professional offices and make the people they work for look good. Sometimes it's even appreciated. I'll never forget Vicki Kennedy having Teddy's hearse stop in front of the Capitol on the way to the cemetery so she could meet with the office staff who stayed in Washington, taking care of the Senator's business the week of his funeral. That's dedication and respect on both sides.

Of the ones who do their time and leave, many turn their valuable Capitol experience into more distinguished careers than those had by the Congresspersons they worked for.

[not a teapartier]

01:24 AM on 04/13/2010

It's Armageddon in his office! Jack Daniels to the rescue?

[poaster]

01:17 AM on 04/13/2010

That reminds me, I need to drink my orange juice.

[AlindaFaye2000]

03:31 PM on 04/13/2010

LOL! You're silly.

[Openyoureyes312]

12:58 AM on 04/13/2010

That's what the GOP really needs, a good circle pit!

[Hughie James]

12:27 AM on 04/13/2010

are we paying for his visits to the tanning bed

[gsteinum]

12:21 AM on 04/13/2010

just when you think the repugnicants have already insulted everybody here comes rep. bonehead to remind us that he still can come up new ways to shoot his mouth off without thinking. maybe tanning beds can also cause brain damage.