"You think you're up to getting us some cheeseburgers?"

[LiviaOlivia]

March 28, 2006
What A Card
by SusanUnPC on March 28, 2006
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/03/what_a_card.html

Historians will remember White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who resigned today, for pushing hard for the illegal, warrantless NSA domestic spying program and for selling the Iraq war to Congress, the media, and the American people.

In 2004, Card and then-White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales barged in on a hospitalized and seriously ill AG John Ashcroft to pressure him and the Justice Department to go along with the NSA domestic spying program. Then Deputy Attorney General James Comey also objected. (Comey, a career government attorney who appointed U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate Plamegate, resigned not long after for a cushy job at Lockheed Martin. Arlen Specter, Senate Judiciary Committee chair, recently pressed for a hearing on domestic spying to include the former AG and DAG, but "hinted that the administration opposed the testimony of Ashcroft and Comey." Forbes)

Card also created the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which cherry-picked and shape-shifted intelligence and facts, as well as pulling all kinds of PR and advertising stunts (whatever was necessary) to raise up hosannas for the Iraq war....

~snip~

WHIG FOUNDER -- and presidential cheeseburger fetcher-- is President Bush's Chief of Staff Andrew Card.

Quotable Card, on selling the war in Iraq: "From a marketing point of view you don't introduce new products in August."

Dishing: Writes Billmon, "If Howard Fineman is right, and Andrew Card really is making a move to topple Karl Rove, then this country could be in a heap of trouble. ... "I'm not a very smart person," Card says. "I have to work really hard at remembering things." ... "When I interviewed him, I could tell fairly quickly that definitely wasn't the sharpest chisel in the White House toolbox." However, according to Sourcewatch, he's known as a consensus builder.

From "Ron Suskind's as-told-to account of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's stormy tenure, The Price of Loyalty, reports Billmon:

"Go get me Andy Card," Bush said to one of the Secret Service agents. Card, the designee as chief of staff, entered from an adjoining room . . . Bush looked impatiently at Card, hard-eyed. "You're the chief of staff. You think you're up to getting us some cheeseburgers?"

Card nodded. No one laughed. He all but raced out of the room.

Lest we forget-Livia

[JuniperLea]

1. Fuck Bush!

What an ass.

Of course they didn't laugh. They know that but for the grace of God go themselves! Fucking sociopathic nightmare waste of skin and oxygen excuse for a human being!

[Inland]

2. Wow, Bush is a dicky boss?

Whoda thunk it. He seems so much like a guy I would want to have a beer with, if he weren't an alcoholic.

[tanyev]

3. Man, I hope the new guy can make cheeseburgers.

If not, he's screwed.

[rodeodance]

4. those 16 hour days are filled with lots of important things to do.