There'll be a crush of cameras at the front door of the White House on January 20 as scores of media outlets scramble to record the moment that the new president walks in. But, wait--who're those people who'll be sliding in quietly behind him? They're the ones who'll spend the next four years whispering in the president's ear, sitting in strategy sessions, running presidential councils, filling agency slots, and pulling the levers of executive power.
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The political and the personal
FREE POLITICAL ADVICE: If you're going to bash illegal immigrants as part of your presidential bid, you shouldn't hire any of them to do personal work for you.
CASE #1: Mitt Romney. A vociferous proponent of building a really big border fence to keep these devils out, the Mittster has now been caught not once, but twice, hiring a landscaping firm that uses illegal workers to tend the lawns, tennis court, etc. at his suburban mansion near Boston.
CASE #2: Tom Tancredo. This ferocious anti-immigrant crusader, who considers illegal workers the scourge of our country, hired a construction crew in 2001to build a 1000square foot entertainment room in his Colorado home. Apparently, Tom didn't notice that only two of the crew spoke English, nor did he express any curiosity about the legal status of those who toiled for him. Most turned out to be undocumented "aliens," as he likes to call them. As one of the men later said, Tancredo "doesn't want us here, but he'll take advantage of our sweat and our labor. It's just not right."