Jeb Bush
vowed this week to "disrupt" Washington if he was elected president.
"We don’t need another president who merely holds the top spot among the pampered elites of Washington. We need a president willing to challenge and disrupt the whole culture in our nation’s capital."
Hopefully none of his pampered aides who have been trolling the halls of Washington for decades heard. Here's an abbreviated look at AJ Vecens'
roundup of Jeb's top Washington veterans.
Vin Weber: The six-term Minnesota congressman turned consultant and lobbyist has been a Jeb Bush supporter for months but a prominent DC power player for years. [...]
Lincoln Diaz-Balart: A former congressman from Florida, Diaz-Balart has his own lobbying group, Western Hemisphere Strategies, which has lobbied Congress on behalf of textile companies in Guatemala and El Salvador. [...]
Michael Hayden and Porter Goss: Both Hayden and Goss are former CIA directors. Hayden was also director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005. [...] Goss, who served in the House of Representatives for 15 years, was director of the CIA from 2004 to 2006. [...]
Michael Chertoff: After his time in government, Chertoff cashed in, working for two separate lobbying firms [...] and three private companies [...] before starting his own consulting group. [...]
Paul Wolfowitz: The deputy defense secretary under President George W. Bush, Wolfowitz, a neocon Washington fixture, was an integral part of the invasion of Iraq. [...]
Tom Ridge: The former governor of Pennsylvania, secretary of homeland security, and six-term congressman. [...]
Michael Mukasey: Mukasey was US attorney general for the second President Bush and went on to become a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, a major law firm that also engages in lobbying activity. [...]
John Negroponte: A former US ambassador to Iraq, Honduras, Mexico, and the Philippines, John Negroponte is an old foreign-policy hand who has worked at the State Department and the United Nations.