Behind the Political Scene
Every now and then I get some really cool visitors that talk to me about work. One guy was serving as an assistant to someone serving in our Cabinet, I don’t want to say which office because I don’t want to out the guy in any way.
But he said that we’ve no idea just how screwed up most of our people on The Hill are. He had a serious order in one meeting that was supposed to be on a very serious defense topic, that was to call Oprah and Bruce Willis, they better be on the line in twenty minutes. His boss had an idea for a movie that needed to happen RIGHT NOW!
Or that they have to have staged interventions with their support staff because they honestly don’t have any connection to the idea that funds for their office can’t be used to finance another home. Or you can’t fire someone because they’re black.
It was a horrifying look into behind the scenes.
I’d think he was making it up if it was the first time I’d heard such stories. O.o