New bush chief of staff stirs up fear and moaning

[katty]

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NYT_New_Bush_chief_of_staff_0423.html

NYT: New Bush chief of staff stirs up 'fear and moaning'

RAW STORY
Published: Sunday April 23, 2006


The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller, in her White House letter Monday, plans to outline internal frustration over Bush's new chief of staff, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts:

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"There is fear and moaning in the West Wing these days as Andrew Card Jr., the genial father figure who promoted a family-friendly White House, has been replaced as chief of staff by Joshua Bolten, a Goldman Sachs-trained workaholic who is exposing President George W. Bush's aides to market forces.

In other words, after a big set of staff changes last week - Karl Rove gave up his policy portfolio to focus on the midterm elections and Scott McClellan, the press secretary, resigned - no one is sure who is in and who is out. Aides say they are on edge, and Bolten has promised more housecleaning this week, after Bush returns from a four-day trip to California. Treasury Secretary John Snow is possibly the next to go.

...Bolten, who is single, keeps investment banker hours and is well known for staying at the office until 11 p.m. When he was White House deputy chief of staff in Bush's first term, he was also known for making it to the 7:30 a.m. senior staff meeting with only minutes to spare.

[MADem]

1. I hope it is Snow....I have a feeling that guy has a book in him

If he stays off the sauce long enough to dictate it to a good ghost writer.

Ya gotta wonder if "Yosh" is friendly with Gannon-Guckert, keeping all those late hours????

[Avalux]

2. Complete bullshit.

Are people supposed to believe Bolten has been given carte blanche to make any changes he wants in the WH? Please. :eyes:

[napi21]

4. Actually, I think this is a cover so Shrub doesn't have to

destroy his image and do the firing himself. Do I think Josh has a completely free hand? Nooo, but I bet if he presents a good case to the Shrub about why certain people gone would help his image AND POLL 's, the decider will give him the OK!

[Dora]

3. "Oh, no! Please don't throw me in the briar patch!"

[electropop]

5. Wierd how he's firing people that don't really matter.

Nobody's going to buy the PR ploy when there is obviously no substance to it. If Bush wants some temporary credibility, he needs to fire Rove, Rummy, and Cheney. Of course, once people see that his idiocy and his policies remain, that short-lived credibility would quickly evaporate like dry ice on hot pavement.

[izzie]

6. They just should get rid of these silly ideals and we all would be saved.

One hates to read a paper any more. I am sick of hearing what people hate us any more and who is getting richer. I can hardly believed that I laughed when I heard George War Bush was going to run for president. Saying to my self, who would vote for a man who was a drunk most of his life and never did one thing right. Little did I know that half the voters liked a guy like that.