Bush to Shake up Team

[TRY ONE]

Heard from a reliable source that Bush is going to shake up his Staff after New Year. As a minimum Andy Card is going to be replaced by Bush's best friend and former Commerce Secetary, Don Evans. More later.

[jveritas]

If Any Card is replaced, it will not surprise most of us.

[Lady In Blue]

I for one do not like seeing our President being shown so much disrespect as you've shown and especially since you're not an American. Looking at your profile shows you as a Panamanian. Where do you get off saying those things about our President?!

[jveritas]

It is a great disrespect to call our President by his first name.

[Diddle E. Squat]

So who else is due for replacement?

Scott "Punching Bag" McClellen tops the list...

[eddie willers]

Card was being pushed aside for pushing this blunder.

If this was a blunder (and not a planned attack) it worked out like the "New Coke" introduction.

No way could Bush have presented another white male candidate after Roberts.

Miers nomination blunted that.

If anyone should get the old heave-ho, it's Scotty.

[Terpfen]

We can only wish.

[cynicom]

With all due respect, I find doing otherwise in any social discourse, demeaning to anyone that does not speak of another on equal terms.

[jveritas]

Only Bush haters call the President by his first name.

[joseph20]

The amount of magnanimity that President Bush has shown so far is definately appreciated by me. However, magnanimity can only go so far. At some point, you really do have to stick up for yourself by taking your political enemies to task.

[joseph20]

The amount of magnanimity that President Bush has shown so far is definately appreciated by me. However, magnanimity can only go so far. At some point, you really do have to stick up for yourself by taking your political enemies to task.

[cynicom]

Well now, that is assuming a great deal. Assuming usually brings wrong conclusions.

Many people in this world have always been diligent in acquiring or accruing some sort of title. When this happens they for some unknown reason EXPECT more than a civil amount of respect.

Most of these same people at once lose most or all respect for those that they feel or see as inferior in position.

As you can see, I am civil to all servile to none.

[GotDangGenius]

I heard that Ted Kennedy is going to take over Education, Harriet Miers is going to replace Karen Hughes, Condi is going to Agriculture, Evans is going to be Ambassador to the Peoples' Republic of San Francisco, John Kerry is switching parties in Jan., and Hillary Clinton is running for Mayor of Hope, Arkansas- heard she can only get elected if she carpet bags somewhere...

When the President comes out with the announcement, then he'll come out with any announcement. Speculation is a HUGe waste of time...

[joseph20]

I regret the duplicate post.

For the record, I would like to edit my previous comment by making a correction to the misspelling of the word definitely.

[McGavin999]

Please dear God, let him get a new press secretary. Scott is a dear, sweet man, but that's the whole problem. Can't they find something behind the scenes for him to do?

[Southack]

"It is possible that Scott could leave to help in his mother's campaign..and then possible administration if she were to win... I don't think it has anything to do with the fact the Perry was Bush's Lt. Governor. Mark McClellan is also in the Bush Administration...I don't know what he would do. Maybe Bush would replace McClellan with Andy Card...if Don Evans comes in."

Scott's mom won't beat Gov Perry.

Scott "works" not because he's eloquent, but because the White House Press Corps is so reliably, predictably hostile to him (and to any pro-Bush speaker, of course). By being publicly docile in the face of such unprovoked hostility, McClellan elicits sympathy in two or three demographic groups.

If you want to continue to let the news media alienate their core audiences (watch their viewership continuously plummet at all of the over-the-top hostile networks), then you'd want to replace Scott with someone else sympathetic, though perhaps more eloquent and respected (e.g. Peggy Noonan).

The other side of the coin would be to bring in a Tom DeLay type to smash the press corps head on.

Both are viable strategies against a press corps that will be predictably hostile for some time to come. Danger to such strategies would only surface if the press corps was able to display some amount of public even-handedness...unlikely in the near-term.

As for Evans coming *back* to D.C...he really had to back-pedal from Putin's bribe/job...something that the corrupt German former leader Schroeder had no problem taking this month. But with Schroeder out of Germany's elected offices and the German election now a historical event, our own U.S. news media can afford to criticize their fellow neo-communist and bribe taker...which means that they can now take shots at Evans for even considering Putin's offer.

In other words, Evans return would be a free two-day "scandal" for the news media to over-hype in order to knock 2 points off of President Bush's short-term popularity ranking.

Of course...there are times when such distractions might play well for us, but I doubt that this is one such moment.

[Trajan88]

The best defense is an awesom offense... keep up the good fight Mr. President... you're doing an excellent job.

[Trajan88]

Re: "Scott's mom won't beat Gov Perry."

I concur 100%.

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88

[Txsleuth]

WOW...great points...and I couldn't have said it better..

I also agree about Strayhorn not being able to beat Perry...I guess I was just trying to fit puzzle pieces in a configuration that they don't fit IN...LOL

Speculation is fun on slow news days...but, I really don't have a clue IF Bush is planning any changes at all.

[Hank Rearden]

A new, fresh crop of free-spending Big Government Republicans comin' aboard?

Oh, goody.

[Hank Rearden]

It is a great disrespect to call our President by his first name.

Yawn. He works for us (no matter what the picturelickers think), and spends our money, wasting hundreds of billions of it. We'll call him George, Mr. Bush, Mr. President or whatever we wish.

Worshipping politicians is for the feebleminded and Russians.