NBC News with Tim Russert predicts WH shakeup

[MissWaverly]

wouldn't make predictions but the rumor is that Howard Baker (Reagan Whitehouse) called
up the White House and demanded shake up. Recommended Fred Thompson (Law & Order) fame
be added to cabinet level position. (This is actually a summary of what I heard on
both NBC News with Brian Williams and CBS News with Bob Schieffer, if this is a dupe
I aopologize.

Shakeup Urged For Bush Staff
Former Senate majority leader Howard Baker phoned the White House Tuesday and sent a direct message to chief of staff Andrew Card, reports CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger.

Baker's mission: to get Card to hire former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson, now an actor who appears on the TV series "Law And Order," as a top adviser as a way to inject some "new blood" to the mix. Baker, also a former Tennessee senator, tells CBS, "I did not recommend firing anyone, just adding a new face."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/15/politics/main1407725.shtml

Miss Waverly

Here's what I heard on the NBC Broadcast with Brian Williams & Tim Russert, please remember I am no Rodeodance

Poll: Bad news for Bush White House, reports are swriling around Washington tonight that the White House may make some staff changes after a long and tough 5 years in office. Tonight it is very clear Americans have new concerns about state of the union including the war in Iraq. Those who approve of GWB = 37%, Disapprove = 58%. Only 1 in 4 think America is on the right track, 62% wrong track. 58% think this is a long term problem with Bush leadership. Polling news may trigger White House Staff shake up. Everyone is asking what changes and when. This seems to have gotten added fuel when Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota) said that the White House was tone deaf. One GOP anonymous said that no White House staff change can change the situation on the ground in Iraq. But Russert said "But, Brian, something seems to be in the wind. We're watching and we're reporting..."

[central scrutinizer]

1. We need to shake Timmy up

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[Quakerfriend]

2. Wow! Way to go MissWaverly- bring us the dirt!!

:9

Do they really think that Fred Thompson is going to be able to swoop in and save them??

More out of touch than I thought! LOL!

[PCIntern]

4. He was pretty ineffective in Die Hard 2

acted passively and lamely...and then he became senator.

[asjr]

13. And now acts passively and lamely on Law & Order.

Hells bells, he is just another Republican.

[MissWaverly]

23. I hope they bring someone in like Colin Powell

we need someone with military background who is a leader not just another "pretty face"

[Vanje]

38. Yeah. Powell was such a fighter for truth and justice as Sec State....

....NOT!

[Vanje]

39. Katherine Harris will soon be needing a job.

[Jack Rabbit]

42. I'll recommend her for a job making license plates

[saigon68]

40. COLON BOWEL looks like a sheep

And apparently is used as one by the Chimpanzee.

[pfitz59]

3. "Night of the long knives."

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnight.htm

-or-

"Saturday night massacre"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre

Take your pick.

[katty]

6. luv it

[katty]

5. Fred is busy doing even more TV(ya know just hate Hollywood)

[grytpype]

7. I knew it was Baker!

It was either Baker or Bush Sr.

And you know how much Junior hates those guys, they think they're smarter than him.

So there isn't gonna be any shakeup.

[Cha]

8. I just saw that fred thompson

on an old L&O and called him a "Corporate Greed Pig"! I was screaming at the tv.

[napi21]

9. Well, Timmy, GeorgieBoy doesn't agree with you!

I actually hope he keeps things just as they are! That will insure the steady drop in the polls! Hell, but mid 07, he'll owe US numbers!!!!

[number6]

10. poor Tim-mah

he looked like he was in pain, hav-in to say all that
bad stuff bout Bu$h ...

[Kahuna]

19. Yeah but...I think Tim-meh is faking the pain now..

I think he's even tired of the boy king now. Why do I say this? I've notice for the past couple of months on his show he has been giving repukes the Democrat treatment.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

21. Tim-mah!!!

Gobbles!!!

(The way Shrub's speechifications have been going, he too is going to be reduced to a two-word vocabulary, by the end of the year.)

:rofl:

[pacalo]

11. Baker was turned down. No changes right now was the reply.

[WI_DEM]

12. Yes and Thompson will come in and the white house press whores

will immediately start reporting on how "Bush is turning it around." It's not his stupid staff or more silly photo-ops but his policies and his inflexible and incompetent leadership which is pushing the numbers down.

[JohnnyLib]

14. Baker call

Looks like erosion to me. Drip, drip, drip.

[Higans]

15. How to fix the white house:

[MissWaverly]

16. Be Back soon follks

I am going over to MSNBC and see if I can dig up any sizzling rumors, Russert hints
this is going down.

[grytpype]

17. I can't wait until they tell Bush he has to resign.

Oh, man, to be a fly on the Oval Office wall when that day comes...

[Doctor_J]

18. or just be "reassigned"

Uh, George, we're going to move you over to the department of Celebrity Golf. You and Quayle are going to be spending a lot of time together.

[MissWaverly]

27. I think the White House should expand into a cruise line

He would be perfect as the meet and greet person on a cruise ship and since he is always on
vacation, it would be perfect.

[chieftain]

20. I hope we stiff Fat Timmy with second echelon guests when

we regain the WH in '08.Instead of pandering to this officious toad we need to contribute to his show being sent to the minors.

[BadGimp]

22. No fixes mind you - "just ... a new face."

Indeed. Don't fix anything. Never hold anyone accountable either.

Just paint some red lips on that hog, and put a pretty dress, and hope the sheeple don;t wake up and see it's really a pig.

I need a drink.

[flordehinojos]

24. Little Russ has been known to state for facts things that never came to

pass. I think Little Russ is impressed with his own self and becomes delusional once in a while--or maybe he just likes to try his hand at fiction writing/reporting.

[MissWaverly]

26. Both CBS and NBC featured this on evening news on 3/15/06

I think they were trying to be the first one to scoop this, remember when they would
not say anything bad about Bush at all, something is in the wind.

Stay tuned.

[kikiek]

25. Just a show they're putting on. Wouldn't doubt that Cheney does leave

and the real reason behind it is to maintain control after 08. This is much more believable than Coleman falling out of line with this administration. He is only worried about his political future nothing more.

[MissWaverly]

28. yes, right before Fitzgerald shows up with an indictment

With a note on Cheney's door, gone quail hunting, call ahead to get directions to the
ranch.

[bklyncowgirl]

35. I agree with you on that, McCain's sucking up for the job bigtime.

It's not going to be him though. Chimp won't stand for it and he'll pick someone else just to rub dirt in McCain's face.

[kikiek]

37. Yea and they need someone more like Bush so they can control him.

Gonna be tough to find one with the level of disinterest of Bush. Someone who will buy anything they're selling as long as it means he doesn't have to really do anything or know anything. Dry drunk sociopaths encouraged to apply.

[54anickel]

29. "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" Baker's

famous question during Watergate. Wasn't it Fred Thompson that gave him that question to ask? These guys learned a lot during Watergate. Maybe they think they could be of some help to W...wonder if that means they think W's gonna need their kind of expertise soon? :freak:

[MissWaverly]

30. Thanks for the history lesson

I had forgotten that little nugget. Oh, by the way, what did the president know
and when did he know it about __________________.

WMD's
Niger forgeries
Curve Ball
election tampering
Jack Abramoff
Plame
missing Iraq money
Katrina

I always think multiple choice questions are the easiest ones to answer.

[remfan]

31. Like bush is going to listen to new blood?

Baker is seriously delusional if he thinks, at this LATE date, that bush is suddenly going to welcome a 'fixer' into the inner circle.

[MissWaverly]

32. I don't know, I think I could see his dad recommending a change

[cliss]

34. Isn't that hilarious?

"Daddy" has to come in and fix the mess. Oh my God, I can't even imagine the fallout from that. There's going to be fireworks in the Oval Office.

It might even drive Popy to an early grave....he he he He'll lose, by the way. Junior says, "Possession is 9/10's of the law" = I own this place now.

[Doctor_J]

41. Drive Poppy to an early grave?

I think the ship has sailed on that one...

[Doctor_J]

33. It's not intended to fix anything, or even

provide any substantive change at all. It's merely to provide the media with something they proclaim as evidence that Il Dunce' is "righting the ship"

[area51]

36. WH shakeup

Geo. Bush is the worst "president" in U.S. history, & his answer to this problem is to fire some of his assistants. Riiiight. :eyes: