Josh Bolten on Karl Rove: "He's always cheerful, optimistic and energetic"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193722,00.html

WALLACE: Taking the policy portfolio from Karl Rove, a lot of people read that as a signal that you are the new sheriff in town.

BOLTEN: I'm the new chief of staff, and what that means is a new management style. But with respect to Karl, he remains a very important voice in our policy process. He's not only a brilliant political mind, he's one of the most brilliant policy minds as well that we have, I believe, in this country today. And what I've done in the restructuring in White House responsibilities is passed off the day-to-day management of the policy process to my deputy, in whom I have the greatest confidence, Joel Kaplan, and freeing up Karl to focus more on bigger strategic issues. It's a refocusing of portfolios, but it's not a removal of voices in the policy process.

WALLACE: So he hasn't had his wings clipped.

BOLTEN: Oh, no, not at all. He's a terrific person. He's a dear friend. And he has the absolute confidence of the president and everybody else in the White House. I think this restructuring that we're going through will, in fact, enhance his ability to serve the president.

WALLACE: And how much does it weigh — we saw him, of course, testifying for the fifth time before a grand jury this week. How much does that legal uncertainty weigh on this White House?

BOLTEN: Well, obviously, I can't comment at all on the case. But what I can tell you is that Karl Rove is as engaged as I've ever seen him in his work. He's always cheerful, optimistic and energetic. He gets more done in an hour than most people get done in a day. And I don't think anybody else in the White House feels weighed down by it at all.

:spray:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Translation:

"We drug him."

[joemurphy]

2. He's the bluebird of happiness, the sunshine of my life.

Perhaps we can get him to give motivational speeches from prison.

[niyad]

3. it's easy to be cheerful, optimistic and energetic when one does not have

a conscience.

[niyad]

4. just imagine if he harnessed that energy, talent and optimism for GOOD

[amitten]

5. So was Ted Bundy.

When you're a sociopath, life is grand!!!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

6. Yes, and he's losing two pounds a week because he's on

Jenny Craig.

Not.