..."Brownie, You're Doin' A Heckuva Job!!!"
Republicans run on the platform "Gov't doesn't work!!!" - and once elected, they prove it.
One of the ways they prove it, is by appointing political hacks to jobs eminently unqualified for, such as a former Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association becoming Director of FEMA: Michael "Heckuva job!" Brown (who today, incidentally, is a radio talk show host in Denver).
Reasonable people understand parental patronage by Strongmen like Gaddafi - i.e., cushy jobs for the Dictator's kids - but were outraged by Boy Blunder's Plunderers political patronage pick of Brownie (and others like him) and Brownie's subsequent (lack of) performance after Hurricane Katrina. Reasonable people understand the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy.
So it's understandable reasonable people are outraged by Ol' "Baseball Bat" Walker's most recent political patronage pick, givin' a "job" to the kid of a campaign donor. From the Milwaulkee Journal-Sentinel:
No degree, little experience pay off big
April 3, 2011Just in his mid-20s, Brian Deschane has no college degree, very little management experience and two drunken-driving convictions.
Yet he has landed an $81,500-per-year job in Gov. Scott Walker's administration overseeing environmental and regulatory matters and dozens of employees at the Department of Commerce. Even though Walker says the state is broke and public employees are overpaid, Deschane already has earned a promotion and a 26% pay raise in just two months with the state.
How did Deschane score his plum assignment with the Walker team?
It's all in the family.
His father is Jerry Deschane, executive vice president and longtime lobbyist for the Madison-based Wisconsin Builders Association, which bet big on Walker during last year's governor's race.
The group's political action committee gave $29,000 to Walker and his running mate, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, last year, making it one of the top five PAC donors to the governor's successful campaign. Even more impressive, members of the trade group funneled more than $92,000 through its conduit to Walker's campaign over the past two years.
Total donations: $121,652.
(more at JSOnline.com)
This story comes out just a few weeks after the Journal Sentinel reported Ol' "Baseball Bat" Walker's misAdministration gave a cushy state job to GOPer State Senator Randy Hopper's mistress, Hopper's wife, presumably, is not amused; she reportedly signed Hopper's Recall Petition.
Not that Minnesota GOPers are immune from putting political hacks on the public payroll; I suggest (IMNSHO) that the biggest waste of taxpayer dough here on the semi-frozen tundra is GOPer Michael Brodkorb's salary.
There's a pattern here, Gentle Readers.
That pattern is Republicans run on the platform "Gov't doesn't work!!!" - and once elected, they prove it.
(previous Strongman Report graphics below the fold)