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| Senator quashes Treasury's bid for humorist |
| 2009-07-18 |
| The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist after the link to the job ad was posted on the Drudge Report. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) contacted the Treasury Department to complain after Matt Drudge's website linked to a want ad for contractors with the "ability to create cartoons on the spot about [Bureau of the Public Debt] jobs." The cartoonist was sought to provide presentations for the bureau's management meetings, according to the ad. "The contractor shall conduct two, 3-hour Humor in the Workplace programs that will discuss the power of humor in the workplace [and] the close relationship between humor and stress," the ad stated. Several conservatives on Capitol Hill found it highly amusing that the Bureau of the Public Debt found it necessary to resort to humor in order to ease the stress of management meetings at a time when the federal deficit is ballooning. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I just flew in from DC...and are my arms tired! Check please! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-18 12:26 |
| #3 Ted Rall is gonna be sooooo disappointed... |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2009-07-18 01:10 |
| #2 Sen. Dorgan obviously has no sense of humor. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-07-18 00:47 |
| #1 No need for a humorist when we already have Biden. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-07-18 00:41 |