What are they hiding by replacing andy today?

[harpo]

That's what I'm wondering...they time everything a certain way on purpose to hide something else they are REALLY doing...slimebags they are!

[AndyA]

1. Methinks Mr. Fitzgerald will be calling on Mr. Card soon...

ratted out by Karl Rove in an attempt to cover his own ass.

[harpo]

14. not getting my hopes up on any of that

but it would be nice if all of them got indicted

[Tanuki]

2. I lke

the way you think, harpo! I hadn't thought of that angle, but you are almost certainly correct.

[harpo]

13. I'm always thinking about that kind of thing

[rsmith6621]

3. Tonights Dinner Time Fucksnews.....

The Bush administration has annonced that major BOMBIMG of nukuler facilitys in IRAN have started.....


Anything is possible........

[ProfessorGAC]

Two Reasons, Probable

First, as someone else said, getting him out of the job before the Fitzgerald shoe drops.

Secondly, this might be the big "shakeup" that his more tepid supporters think is necessary for him to "save" his presidency and legacy. If this is the primary reason, this is pretty weak. Card didn't have any power anyway. He was basically in charge of the secretarial pool.
The Professor

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Two Reasons, Probable

First, as someone else said, getting him out of the job before the Fitzgerald shoe drops.

Secondly, this might be the big "shakeup" that his more tepid supporters think is necessary for him to "save" his presidency and legacy. If this is the primary reason, this is pretty weak. Card didn't have any power anyway. He was basically in charge of the secretarial pool.
The Professor

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Why Is Everything Posting 3 Times?????

This is pissin' me off!
The Professor

[harpo]

21. maybe its a sign of some sort

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Two Reasons, Probable

First, as someone else said, getting him out of the job before the Fitzgerald shoe drops.

Secondly, this might be the big "shakeup" that his more tepid supporters think is necessary for him to "save" his presidency and legacy. If this is the primary reason, this is pretty weak. Card didn't have any power anyway. He was basically in charge of the secretarial pool.
The Professor

[rsmith6621]

7. WHO IS ANDY CARD????????

:sarcasm:

[Jara sang]

6. I don't know, let's ask Andy.

Here is his phone number: [phone]

http://www.google.com/search?sa=X&oi=fwp&pb=f&q=andrew+card+virginia

[pacalo]

8. Plus: What are they hiding by replacing him with another insider?

[Carla in Ca]

10. THAT is what I want to know!

Bolton is another "Heck of a job" crony that needs to be rewarded, right? His budget analysis for Iraq was so right on...NOT!

A snippet from <http://www.dod.mil/speeches/2003/sp20030729-depsecdef0385.html>

On Iraq
Testimony as Delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and Director, Office of Management and Budget, Joshua Bolten, and Acting Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, General John Keane , Tuesday, July 29, 2003.


SEN. BIDEN: I want to try to ask a couple very specific questions, and if you could help me by giving as quick an answer as you could.

Mr. Bolten, what are your working assumptions, on the cost side, for the rest of '03 and for '04 for Iraq?

MR. BOLTEN: For the rest of '03, Senator Biden, the -- on the cost side, our working assumptions are those that Ambassador Bremer has brought back to us. He's anticipating expenditures in the range for the total of '03 of about 7.3 billion (dollars). And what that --

SEN. BIDEN: How much will you be requesting for the remainder of the year, if any, from the United States Congress to fund that need?

MR. BOLTEN: We don't anticipate requesting anything additional for the balance of this year.

SEN. BIDEN: What do you anticipate for '04?

MR. BOLTEN: I don't know the answer to that. Ambassador Bremer is -- has laid out a reasonably specific budget for the balance of '03, and I think he had an opportunity to discuss that with you. But even that was relatively crude, because of -- they're just getting a handle on so many of the variables that are in play right now.

SEN. BIDEN: Do you anticipate we'll be continuing to spend $4 billion a month for our troops in Iraq, for '04?

MR. BOLTEN: That's roughly what we're spending now. Looking out over the immediate term, we don't have any reason to expect a dramatic change in that number, but I wouldn't want to predict beyond the next couple of months, because the situation is so variable.

SEN. BIDEN: Don't you have to -- I mean, we're talking about the '04 budget. We're going to be voting on that in the next couple months. What the devil are you going to ask us for?

MR. BOLTEN: Well, the -- in the '04 budget -- and Senator, we've -- as you know, we've been very explicit about it -- we have not included the incremental costs of our fighting forces in Iraq, nor the costs of reconstruction. So you --

SEN. BIDEN: Why?

MR. BOLTEN: Simply because we don't know what they will be. We will --

SEN. BIDEN: Oh, come on now! Does anybody here at the table think we're going to be down below 100,000 forces in the next calendar year? Raise your hand, any one of you. You know it's going to be more than that. See, you know at least it's going to be $2-1/2 billion a month. Give me a break, will you? When are you guys starting to be honest with us? Come on! I mean, this is ridiculous. You're not even --

MORE

[pacalo]

15. He's certainly got the lie-obfuscate-stonewall routine down.

I wonder who will be shuffled into his old job.

[Carla in Ca]

18. Well, how about the guy who made

the counterfeit billion-dollar bills? I'm sure he isn't real busy right now, plus it adds another phony into the WH! Yeah, he'll do.:eyes:

[pacalo]

19. ::ding::ding::ding::!!!

[jazzjunkysue]

16. "Re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" Chuck Schumer

Good one, Chuck. At least you're good for comic relief.

[pacalo]

20. I loved that line!

[kaygore]

11. I vote for pics of him with Jeff Gannon!

[cantstandbush]

12. Think Plame....think...Abramoff. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Who knows, since they hide so much.

I sure he fell on his sword to protect Little Lord Pissypants, from something.