White House Press Secretary McClellan Resigns

[helderheid]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/19/AR2006041900897.html?referrer=email

McClellan Out as White House Press Secretary
Karl Rove Gives Up Policy Oversight to Focus on 2006 Elections

By Fred Barbash and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 19, 2006; 10:21 AM

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation this morning and President's Bush's longtime adviser Karl Rove is scaling back his responsibilities.

It was the third major change at the White House in the past few weeks and perhaps the most visible to the public, as McClellan is the most televised face of the administration through his often-combative daily briefings.

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[RagingInMiami]

1. You've done a heck of a job, Scotty

Let's hope they take you off the payroll.

[wake.up.america]

6. How much did he get for lying?

[acmavm]

2. KKKarl voluntarily letting go of some control? Doesn't sound

right to me.

[Supersedeas]

16. he is just moving down the hall - Rove is going nowhere

[w13rd0]

3. I will not be satisfied...

...until ALL OF THEM are GONE!!!

Some shuffling of the cronies ain't gonna do it Bush. Funny, the man who would not admit to a mistake, and I hesitate to call him a man, more like a little boy, is now trying to dump EVERYONE overboard (except the PNAC crew like Cheney and Rummy) in an attempt to make it look like he's responsive. Here's a clue Bush, RESIGN!

[sellitman]

4. Snotty is gone and

The rats are jumping off the sinking ship!:nopity:

[jojo54]

5. So why isn't the media all over this?????

CNN, MSNBC, CNN Headline News.......

NONE of them are even hinting that something this big has happened. When it was the Big Dog's house, it was plastered all over the place.

[NMDemDist2]

10. it is, that's where the LBN thread came from n/t

[partylessinOhio]

19. You are right on! Why are the networks standing down?

Why keep on that rape case and Aruba 24/7?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. The "Scaling back"...

Is a lot more telling than that round mound of the less-than profound leaving.

Pay attention to the policy portfolio being pulled from Rove. There is the real story. Scotty is the camoflage.

[BR_Parkway]

8. So, now can he talk about "ongoing investigations"?

[mzteris]

9. nah -

his lawyer told him not to.

:evilgrin:

[killbotfactory]

11. Scotty was a humorless ass.

I don't envy anyone taking over his job.

I hated Ari Fleischer, but at least you could tell he was full of shit, and he you knew he knew was full of shit. But Scotty... he was a pretentious ass.

[helderheid]

12. I'm pretty sure the DJs at X96 in Salt Lake City hang out on DU - they

just annouced "Puffy McMoonface has resigned" :)

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Put this together with the Bush helicopter evacuation story, and

I get this weird thought about everybody deciding to have a little fun with Puffy. They blindfold him, put him on board along with Rumsfeld, Rove & 2 large sandbags. They take off. Bush asks Rummy if he wants to resign. Rummy says "Hell no." Bush says, "Pitch him," and they throw out a sandbag. The chopper bobs upward with the loss of weight. Then Bush says to Rove, "OK, Karl. This Plame thing is getting a little too hot. You're next." The second sandbag goes out & the helo bobs upward again. Puffy starts screaming & begging to be allowed to resign. Bush says, "Jeez, it smells like shit in here. Take us down."

[Acebass]

14. Poor George won't know what to do...

He'll have to think up a new list of nicknames...

[Joe Fields]

15. What worries me is......

that Rove will now be devoting his attention to the elections. "Swift boats" for everyone.

[stanwyck]

17. Hmmm. I'm thinking of a replacement

for Scotty. Maybe Katherine Harris could staunch the hemorrhage of her personal stash of millions on her failed campaign and take up a very high profile job which will highlight her need for attention while showcasing her impressive plastic surgeries and unique makeup application.
(and, yes, I'm being particularly "snotty" in homage to Snotty Scotty.)

[partylessinOhio]

18. I just saw the tape of Scott with * in front of the helicopter -

Poor Scott was all choked up, he did not go voluntarily!
* has to be shaking in his boots to be making any changes with Rove.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12387465/
BREAKING NEWS
NBC News and news services
Updated: 10:56 a.m. ET April 19, 2006

WASHINGTON - A Bush administration shake-up continued Wednesday, with White House press secretary Scott McClellan announcing his resignation and a source saying that adviser Karl Rove would shed some duties.

Appearing with Bush on the White House South Lawn just before the president boarded a helicopter at the start of a trip to Alabama, McClellan, who has parried especially fiercely with reporters on Iraq and on intelligence issues, told Bush: “I have given it my all sir and I have given you my all sir, and I will continue to do so as we transition to a new press secretary.” ...

New Rove duties
Also, a senior administration official revealed another move in the ongoing shake-up of Bush’s staff, saying Rove, the president's longtime confidant and adviser, is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections.

The source told NBC that the shift was “an acknowledgement of the tough political climate.”