USA Today: Bush's Staff is like a "dying cell phone battery."

[KoKo]

When in Doubt, Shoot the Staff

Conservatives chafing at President Bush's Hurricane Katrina spending plan and depressed with his low poll numbers are beginning to blame his top staff for moving too slowly to reverse the slide. Indeed, some suggest that the president needs to bring in new top staff to invigorate his administration. "He needs a new group of people with energy and ideas around him," says a GOP strategist with ties to the White House. "They're like a dying cellphone battery." Ever since the re-election campaign ended, the president's supporters have worried that his top staff was worn out. It's a feeling administration staffers have often concurred with. But White House insiders balk at calls for changes, claiming that the president knows exactly what his political situation is and has a long-term plan built on new initiatives that will drown out the critics next spring.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051003/3whitehouse.htm

[Vickers]

1. "the president knows exactly what his political situation is"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[krkaufman]

2. Hey, George, everybody already knows you're going to declare victory...

... next Spring and pull-out of Iraq. Ain't gonna be a big surprise.

[savemefromdumbya]

4. I thought he already had declared victory a couple of years ago aboard

aboard the aircraft carrier

[krkaufman]

12. pesky details. n/t

[quiet.american]

3. Given the events of Katrina, this wasn't the best phrase to use....

....has a long-term plan built on new initiatives that will drown out the critics next spring.

[melody]

5. Bush's staffers have "Jesus Loves Me" trolls on their desktops

These people could never hold a "charge" to begin with.

[Missy M]

6. If they are such great new initiatives why not bring them out now...

or are they just scrambling to come up with them now. It makes me feel so warm and safe to know bush has a long term plan, what a bunch of BS.
bush and his administration are the biggest failures this country has ever seen and it has seen many.

[MidwestTransplant]

10. Google don't lie!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=failure

[cassiepriam]

7. He is blaming his staff? And I can hardly wait for the "new intiatives."

[wtmusic]

8. He definitely needs a new staff to ignore n/t

[Last Lemming]

9. president needs to bring in new top staff

especially after the old ones are indicted.

[Lexingtonian]

11. Magical thinking is either scary or pathetic

and this variety is the pathetic kind.

The denial level is really ridiculous. The People has used that Party up for its purposes and resists any more "initiatives". We're all agreed on merely watching the ones started in 2001 to 2003 end in deserved selfdefeat, and- as we now know- Republican control is indispensible to selfdefeating initiatives.

I'll happily bet that 'immigration reform' and 'tax reform' meet the same fate as 'Social Security reform'. As it is, the next major Al Qaeda attack (i.e. on the order of the ones that hit London and Madrid) sinks the Administration's and the GOP's polling ceiling under 40%.

[Arugula Latte]

13. But I thought they were supposed to be "The Adults"

Funny how "The Kids" in the Clinton administration knew how to run things so much better.

[GayCanuck]

14. I just wonder if he really cares

or not. Hell he must know that he's done in three years. Why beef up the image?; it's shot, gone, adios....no more "bullhorn" moments.

[cybildisobedience]

15. staff worn out?

What do they have to be tired of?
The constant ass-kissing by the media?
The fawning op eds written by GOP-paid pundits?
The constant ignoring of the dead bodies coming back from Iraq?

These people don't know what worn out is! They should have walked a mile in a Clinton-staffers' shoes when that crew was fighting off the impeachment, or dealing with the constant investigations, or having Ken Starr's people rifle through their personal belongings in search of a reason to justify his $70 million senseless probe.

The Bush people have had it so easy that when a true natural disaster occurs and they are actually held accountable because there are dead bodies all over the tv screen, they feel besieged.