Why isn't it scandalous that over 1/2 of Bush's cabinet has resigned...

[zaj]

8 so far this year, IIRC... and something like 10-12 total over the last 4 years.

Is this SOP after re-election?

[Dr Ron]

1. Wait until you hear what is next

Rumor has it that Jenna and Barbara will be the next to resign. They are considering hiring Mary Kate and Ashley Olson to replace the twins.

[Patsy Stone]

8. The real question you want to ask is...

Why isn't it scandalous that they were all there in the first place?

:)

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. LOL!

[Spinzonner]

18. Wouldnt Mary Kate and Ashley

account for only 1.5 daughters rather than the full complement of 2 required for a full replacement ?

[MadHound]

2. This is no big deal, massive cabinet changes are a fairly regular thing

Hell, Nixon's entire cabinet changed over at the beginning of his second term.

[LifeDuringWartime]

13. i wonder why!

n/t

[MNBiker]

15. To produce a deep bench for the future...

This is Mr.Blank Former secretary of whatever...When future Admins are in power, a good start up team is available...

[Fla Dem]

23. Some of then truly get burned out. Other take the 4 years

they were in the cabinet and parlay it into high paying jobs in the pprivate sector(ala Dick Cheney), start their own political careers, or join think tanks as consultants for big bucks.

[sonicx]

3. not really. new terms always have resignations

it would be better if bush resigned.

[whalerider55]

4. i think

it is pro forma that the entire cabinet submits a letter of resignation to the president at the end of a first term...
sort of to free up the president from having to fire anyone.

it does look like rats abandoning a sinking ship... in an ocean full of sharks

whalerider55

[sangh0]

5. I've got a better one

Why is Israel's plan for Gaza referred to as a "re-deployment" instead of the "pullback" or "withdrawal" that it really is?

[aquart]

26. Relevant to this discussion in what possible way?

Really.

Please answer.

[Worst Username Ever]

6. I think after Clinton's reelection 8 resigned, and 9 did under Reagan

[superconnected]

7. They keep getting replaced with worse peole

What's the Fourth Reich without Himmler, Goebbels, Hess, and Goerings equivelents? Bushes old cabinet was mostly evil, they need REALLY EVIL to pull of the world extermination plan for everyone but Christian Fundamentalists.

And let's not forget why the nazis lost - the US got the bomb first. This time, Hitler is already holding the bomb. Gotta get in poeple willing to use it.

[ooglymoogly]

9. not at all; what is really scandolous is that the other half didn't

resign.

[Sara Beverley]

10. Why isn't it scandalous that Rummy was aksed to stay?

That is the real question. Just wait folks, all hell is going to break out after January 22.

[nascarblue]

11. Rummy is the one of the men behind the curtain.

Rummy, Wolf, and Rove aren't going anywhere. Come to think of it, that goes for the reunification of post WW2 Germany scholar, Condi Rice as well.

[Lefty48197]

14. Follow along with the Bush cabinet playing card set

featuring all of our favorite players pictured on the face of one of the playing cards. Tom Ridge was the Jack of clubs. Spence Abraham, the four of spades.

[SheilaT]

16. Not a scandal, just typical if a president

has a second term. It was much more usual in the past for cabinet members to serve a couple of years and move on.

These are all people who could make scads more money in the private sector, so what's amazing to me is that they all stayed the entire four years. Amazing that greed didn't win out, and amazing and sad that they've all stayed so long in the service of such evil.

[DemBones DemBones]

20. Maybe they were all promised jobs with Carlyle after 2008

if they stayed on as long as W{idowmaker) wanted them to. What do we know about what really goes on, what promises and deals are made in the upper echelons?

[superconnected]

17. I just want to be at the White House in January

To egg his car.

[Spinzonner]

19. Frankly it's hard for me to get overly concerned

with one set of political hacks replacing another.

Same old incompetence and corruption.

[JoMomma456]

21. No... normal amount.

Nixon had 11, I read.

[proud patriot]

22. It's scandalous to me

:D

[journalist3072]

24. 2nd Term Resignations

This really isn't anything new. There usually is a high turnover in a 2nd term.

[KSAtheist]

25. Yes...

Sometimes they don't even last that long. Carter asked his whole cabinet to resign.