Posted on 11/19/2005 3:07:51 AM PST by paudio
WASHINGTON -- The absence by Chief of Staff Andrew Card from President Bush's Latin America and Asia trips has increased speculation about a possible reconstruction of the White House staff.
Presidential aides said Card was left behind to handle the crush of congressional business during Bush's absence. However, the chief of staff almost always accompanies the president on foreign travels.
A footnote: Al Hubbard, director of the National Economic Council, is being given a wide variety of domestic assignments beyond economics and is speculated on as Card's possible successor.
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The District of Columbia cell of the Communist Party USA has been revealed as holding a monthly luncheon in the cafeteria of the National Education Association (NEA), without the sponsorship but not with the disapproval of the huge, politically powerful schoolteachers union.
The Communist meetings were reported by Chris Peterson in the Washington City Paper edition of Nov. 11-17. A lawyer attending the September meeting bolted from the cafeteria when he learned a reporter was present.
"We had no knowledge of this," NEA spokeswoman Denise Cardinal told this column, "because the NEA does not screen the patrons of our cafeteria or listen in on conversations. It's open to the public."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Bush's slide in the polls has to do more with skewed polls than a divided base.
I thought Bush kept his Cards close to his vest.
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GWB: HBS MBA
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The American Thinker February 3, 2004 | Thomas Lifson
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One final note on George W. Bush’s management style and his Harvard Business School background does not derive from the classroom, per se. One feature of life there is that a subculture of poker players exists. Poker is a natural fit with the inclinations, talents, and skills of many future entrepreneurs. A close reading of the odds, combined with the ability to out-psych the opposition, leads to capital accumulation in many fields, aside from the poker table.
By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, at least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.
REDS AT NEA
“The District of Columbia cell of the Communist Party USA has been revealed as holding a monthly luncheon in the cafeteria of the National Education Association (NEA), without the sponsorship but not with the disapproval of the huge, politically powerful schoolteachers union.”
The Communist meetings were reported by Chris Peterson in the Washington City Paper edition of Nov. 11-17. A lawyer (ACLU?) attending the September meeting bolted from the cafeteria when he learned a reporter was present.
Just discussing the PROGRESS of the NEA programs:
Some of these “45 goals” being achieved are:
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press
Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Check out my HOMEPAGE
" If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically."There are times when I feel the president has become the national pinata 24/7. At when point does he bury someone that is just plain wrong.Turning the other cheek in a time of war is plain scary.
I don't think that Card's leaving (if true) has anything to do with Miers, either. He just hasn't been very effective in general, however, and perhaps everybody is beginning to acknowledge this. We shall see.
Even though I supported Miers (the president, actually), I do think the above is correct. This particular strategery backfired within the base, so in retrospect it wasn't a good political move.
The case on Alito is still out. I'm nervous about him, but gained a little more confidence over the "abortion isn't in the constitution" revelation that came out last week.
I hear you. I have no clue why he is acting so weak.
But, remember ........ he was this sly, great card player and strategist BEFORE he was "born again".
Maybe you lose a little of that ability when you make the "change".
Yep. Skewed polls and gas prices, which are falling BTW.
When the right was eating its own over the Miers nomination the left saw opportunity. And so the left stepped up to the plate and started swinging. And there was deafening silence from the administration.
Bingo.
The Chevron nearby's dropped 10 cents in the last week, totaling about 40 or 50 cents over the past month or two. Not bad at all.
It may be a sign that Card is the person who talked to Woodward.
That sounds good. And maybe it is true.
But the stakes here are far too high to being playing poker over.
Interesting. Maybe more than Woodward.
If this is true, this is more good news. The Republicans are definitely showing some backbone lately, and Bush and Cheney are both sounding great. Canning Card (and hopefully McMilktoast next) would be definitely more good news.
"I have no clue why he is acting so weak."Sometimes you act weak just before you unload on someone.Throwing them off,in football misdirection play.
Let the "cards" fall where there be. I think Card is a good guy, but sometimes it's time for a change.
Time for THE GREAT ONE, Mark Levin.
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