Comments on: The First Change? White House Chief Of Staff Andy Card Resigns

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:39:22 +0000

This comment from Centerfield has me a little confused: “The perception on the right seems to be that Bolten is more in favor of fiscal restraint, and thus will help begin reining in the rampant spending.”

How would a fiscal conservative moving from the director of the Office of Management and Budget to Chief of Staff help rein in the spending? It seems to me like they are moving him farther away from a position of budgetary influence.

I’d love to see someone get in there to do something to control the rampant defecit spending but this just seems to take someone who might want to do so out of a position where he could do so. Am I missing something?

As for the change in general, I’ll join those who summed it up with one word: yawn.

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TITLE: SHUFFLING THE DECK CHAIRS
BLOG NAME: Michelle Malkin
So, White House chief of staff Andy Card is out and longtime Bush adviser/budget director Josh Bolten takes his place. I think John Hinderaker’s reaction is just right: Yawn. Joe Sixpack has a different view. Joe Gandelman has mega-round-up and…

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TITLE: Card Folds
BLOG NAME: UNCoRRELATED
President Bush announced Andrew Card’s resignation this morning and the appointment of his successor–Josh Bolton. Card is a remarkable breed–a man of immense talent and capacity who is satisfied to work like mad behind the scenes for too little money and no recognition–except when things go badly. This kind of selfless civil service is all too rare, except curiously in this oft-maligned administration. No one heard a thing about the resignation until it was announced of the White House’s public…

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TITLE: we’re finally rid of Andy Card
BLOG NAME: Scrutator
White House Chief of Staff Andy Card just resigned. Frankly, he should have done this after the Harriet Miers fiasco. As Red State puts it

We cannot, however, say that he has served conservatives or the Republican party well. He is, among other th…

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TITLE: Andy Card Resigns
BLOG NAME: Centerfield
The Moderate Voice has the coverage….

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TITLE: First Time For Everything
BLOG NAME: CommonSenseDesk
Joe Gandelman wonders if Card is the first in a series.

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TITLE: The First Change? White House Chief Of Staff Andy
BLOG NAME: Booker Rising
The Moderate Voice, a moderate-liberal blog, opines about Andrew Card’s resignation today after nearly 5-1/2 years as President George W. Bush’s top aide. He will be replaced by Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the Office of Management and Budget: “…

By: Elrod

Elrod — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:53:31 +0000

For once I agree with John Hinderacker. Yawn indeed.

By: Charles Jordan

Charles Jordan — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:17:45 +0000

I don’t see what will change. Just replacing one loyalist with another. I thought crtics wanted someone not afraid to give the president bad news, tell him what he needs to hear rather than what he wants to hear. Is Bolten that type? I didn’t think they allowed Republicans like that to work in the White House.

By: K. Gregory

K. Gregory — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:15:14 +0000

But it still sounds like the beginning of changes in the administration…..

By: Charles Jordan

Charles Jordan — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:08:48 +0000

I didn’t care for him. He’d come on TV talk for 5 or 6 minutes not answer a single question…just a string of talking points. Being a good inside man did nothing for me as a citizen expecting answers from people entrusted to serve.

By: pennywit

pennywit — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:05:26 +0000

Maybe Card shops at Target?

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By: Pyst

Pyst — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:57:33 +0000

Fitz about to bring charges against Card probably.

“It’s bad news for the Democrats because it signals that the White House is a more fluid operation that it appeared ”

Oh please, get rea, they haven’t done anything but exchange one sycophant for another from inside the operation at that.

By: Elrod

Elrod — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:37:09 +0000

Sending the merrygoaround around and around will not make a bit of a political difference. Josh Bolten is not “new blood”. The only thing that would cause people to think the White House was changing its ways was if Karl Rove decided to spend more time with his family. Andy Card has always been a bit player in this White House. A man who makes sure things go smoothly at the internal level, but who makes no policy decisions and doesn’t really manage policy-related relationships between various Cabinet officials and the White House (which Chiefs of Staff have done in the past). Rove is the man responsible for those kinds of decisions and he’s still around.