Tommy Thompson Resigns From Cabinet (like rats)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services (news - web sites) Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, the latest departure in a major reshuffling of President Bush (news - web sites)'s second-term Cabinet, The Associated Press has learned.


Thompson submitted his resignation to Bush, and planned to announce his departure at a Friday afternoon news conference, said an official close to the former Wisconsin governor who asked not to be identified.

edited to add update:

Mark McClellan, the government's Medicare chief and brother of White House press secretary Scott McClellan, is Thompson's likely successor, officials said.


Thompson's resignation brings to eight the number of members of Bush's 15-member Cabinet who have left.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=542&e=1&u=/ap/20041203/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_cabinet

[da_chimperor]

1. How dare you insult the noble rat with a comparison to bush appointees!

:P

[maddezmom]

4. hehe...apologies to all the "noble rats"

[htuttle]

2. Fellow Wisconsinites! We've been waiting for this! Prepare the barricades!

Make sure and guard the airports, and put up those checkpoints on I-94 and I-90!

We cannot let this miscreant back into the state!

[BeHereNow]

6. Don't worry...

He will most likely be shuffled off to a mega-salaried
corporate CEO position in an undisclosed location.
bhn

[brook]

27. More like K Street.

Lobbyist Heaven.

[rodeodrive1]

29. He's running for the Seante

Doubt that worm would have the image of a CEO. He said today about running for the Senate in '06, and I bet he does. He can't keep himself out of the limelight. Cheer up, at least he'll stay in DC, even if he IS Senator.

[ewagner]

13. Look out for I-39

He may try to sneak in the backdoor!!! :evilgrin:

[htuttle]

16. We also need some decoys to distract him

Anyone know where we can rent a bunch of Nun's costumes?

[ewagner]

21. ROFLMAO!!!!!

There's a party and costume store on mainstreet!

If they don't have a Nun's costume them I'm sure the porno store down the block will!!!!! :P :P :P

[lynx rufus]

14. We'll be covering I-41 and I-43 in case he sneaks thru

That fucker is one sneaky bastard!

[madison2000]

17. how about some biological warfare?

He was in charge of protecting us so he should be pretty resistant to anything we can throw at him, right?

[Zynx]

30. He's not as popular as he once was.

Still, it's best we don't let him in. This is Democrat country now.

[rodeodrive1]

31. Yes he is

Sorry, but he IS as popular, and could win a Senate seat. People carry on like he is a rock star. Why, I don't know. I feel sorry for Wisconsin. He could beat Kohl, but I don't think he will run again.

[Zynx]

33. Kohl would beat him badly.

The only reason he did as well as he did is that we ran a bunch of lousy candidates against him. Ed Garvey and Chuck Chavala were hardly good candidates. If Doyle had run against him in 1998, he would have won, but it would have been a lot closer.

Sure, there is some nostalgia for Thompson among Repugs, but they would quickly remember the mess he left the state in.

[brentspeak]

3. Why can't Bush and Cheney resign too?

Although Bush is so stupid that he might accidentally resign and not realize it until afterward.

[Zero Gravitas]

20. all in good time

[barb162]

37. that's not good enough...how long?

[fryguy]

24. someone slip him a XV Amendment letter....

how funny would that be!

[rocktivity]

5. I've nicked them the Bush Scapegoat All Stars

Bush HAS to purge his Cabinet. They were the ones who gave him so much bad advice. With a fresh supply of scapegoats--he can pretend that last admininistration never actually happened, that he's in charge, and that everything is all and shiny and new.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Cocoa]

7. Tommy wanted to resign years ago

Bush wouldn't let him.

[maddezmom]

8. didn't Thompson always want Transportation??

[GiovanniC]

9. Tommy Thompson's Letter of Resignation (Excerpt)

"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from health problems has been achieved."

[madison2000]

11. yeah everyone is praying they don't get the flu

[GiovanniC]

12. Well, It Worked For Ashcroft's Letter...

Ignore the problem and pretend it no longer exists... PRESTO! The problem is resolved.

[madison2000]

10. Maybe Bush will find him another job

that gives him more free time to spend with his mistress?

[devilgrrl]

15. The rats are leaving not out of principal but $$$$$$$$$$

Let's not forgot that these people are sociopaths

[fryguy]

25. capitalistic sociopaths

i agree, they'll all be showing up in lobby firms and industries real soon

[madison2000]

18. New cabinet post for Tommy: Ministry of DaNile

[RevCheesehead]

19. Please, God, keep that idiot out of Wisconsin!

[LibertyLover]

22. Rats upset

I've just spoken to my four rats (Hecate, Pallas, Isis and Nephysis) and they assure me that this behaviour is not rat-like at all. They are very upset. I've assured them it was nothing personnel. So, another one bites the dust - don't let the door hit your back as you shuffle off to "spend more time with your family."

[fryguy]

23. 8 out of 15 (so far)

so who, other than Dr. Evil (rumsfeld), is left?

[The Blue Flower]

26. You call them cabinet members

I call them 'accomplices'.

[struggle4progress]

28. Thompson will turn to advising terroists how best to attack the US.

Thompson Resigns From Bush's Cabinet
<snip> "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," Thompson said as announced his departure before department employees. "We are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that." <snip>
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=301259

Golly TT, thanks for pointing this out ...

[BrightKnight]

32. At least Rumsfeld agreed to stay.

I was beginning to worry.

[mb7588a]

34. He's a drunk womanizer...

I say let 'em run against Kohl in '06. Encourage it in fact! We can expose him as the anti-moral values dipshit that he and fellow Bush cronies are.

[rodeodrive1]

35. Wouldn't work

He may be all of that, but for some reason, the press DOES NOT PRINT OR REPORT IT. My question is: why not?

[Liberal Chad from WI]

36. stay away from WI

Tommy we don't need you back in WI. You did nothing for our state except inherit a wealthy state and got out right before the economy went down the tubes. Go in the private sector where you belong.