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Grief Counselors Help Dem Staffers Work Through Their Loss

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By Doug Powers  •  November 8, 2010 10:06 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

What Democrat staffer riding a wave of Hope & Change into Capitol Hill after the 2008 election would have guessed that a mere two years later they’d need to be offered access to grief counselors?

From Politico:

A staffer for a congressional Democrat who came up short on Tuesday reports that a team of about five people stopped by their offices this morning to talk about payroll, benefits, writing a résumé, and so forth, with staffers who are now job hunting.

But one of the staffers was described as a “counselor” to help with the emotional aspect of the loss — and a section in the packet each staffer was given dealt with the stages of grief (for instance, Stage One being anger, and so on).
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While Tuesday was definitely a major loss for the Democrats, I hadn’t heard it cast in a stages-of-grief way before.

Compounding the disappointment of finding themselves out of work must be the frightening prospect of being stuck in a health care system their bosses just lost their jobs for passing.

The five stages of Democrat grief — a current political offshoot of the Kübler-Ross model — that are being worked through at various levels in DC are as follows:

1) Blame Bush

2) Anger (Why didn’t those idiotic voters understand our message?)

3) Bargaining (From “I won” to “okay, maybe we can work things out between us”)

4) Depression (The country is on the brink of a depression; see #1)

5) Acceptance (Yes, it was Bush’s fault)

**Written by Doug Powers

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