Wingnut Welfare drying up?

By Dave Anderson:

The Wingnut welfare system is falling apart as there are too many wingnuts of the non-teabagger variety. The most notable example was former President Bush reduced to speaking at a Motivation conference last week. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales can only blame his bad memory for the lack of high prestige teaching gigs or law firm offers after his term in office ended. No one of any prestige and cash is willing to fork over money to disgraced members of the Bush Administration if they are tainted by more than one major scandal or constitutional moment.

This lack of wingnut welfare or at least wingnut welfare with any prestige and value as a future jumping off point has trickled its way to Pittsburgh. Former US Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Mary Beth Buchanan recently resigned with nothing solid lined-up. This is unusual. There are rumors of her running for Congress against Jason Altimre (D-PA) in PA-4, but those are just rumors at this time. Normally, the former US Attorney for the region is welcomed back into the public-private sector elite. Fred Theiman, the region's US Attorney from 1993-1997 is currently the head of the Buhl Foundation and sits on half the power boards in the region. That is not too unusual.

The Pittsburgh Comet is passing along reasonably solid rumors that the Pittsburgh Republican establishment and more particularly, its Republican leaning law firms made it clear that there would be no work available for Ms. Buchanan. And Ms. Buchanan was just a three bit player in the US Attorney firing scandal. Wingnut Welfare seems to be drying up.