WP: Bush to Change Economic Team

[kskiska]

Candidates Likely To Be From Outside Administration

Monday, November 29, 2004; Page A01

President Bush plans to overhaul his economic team for the second time in two years and wants to tap prominent figures outside the administration to help sell rewrites of Social Security and the tax laws to Congress and the country, White House aides and advisers said over the weekend.

The aides said the replacement of four of the five top economic officials -- including the Treasury and Commerce secretaries, with only budget director Joshua B. Bolten likely to remain -- is part of Bush's preparation for sending Congress an ambitious second-term domestic agenda.

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"The president knows that he doesn't have the strength in that stable, and he's going to another corral to find it," said a member of Bush's political team who asked not to be identified because it is not his job to talk to reporters.

One senior administration official said Treasury Secretary John W. Snow is free to stay as long as he wants, provided it is not very long. He might stay as long as six months into the term, officials said. Friends say Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. is one possibility to replace him. Bolten also could move over.

But Republican officials said Bush is also considering well-known officials from outside the administration, including New York Gov. George E. Pataki (R). Conservatives are pushing for former senator Phil Gramm, a Republican from Texas.

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[Florida_Geek]

1. Oh goody the dollar is falling and he is looking to

Phil Gramm.... We are FUCKED.

[leesa]

14. Phil's an EXCELLENT looter. I'm sure he will be a fine asset to the team

[pig.]

2. i don't understand why he just doesn't appoint all the Enron

accountants. i mean they got away with it for over four years didn't they? that's all he needs is four years looking good on paper. to make our paper look good... then he can hand it all to arnold and voila! wash his hands of it while the warS really get crankin...

ya like you said. scrooowed.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

3. So I guess his friends aren't doing well enough?

Screw the rest of us! This isn't a huge surprise, though. "Ambitious agenda" probably means exactly what it sounds like...more spending. The sky's the limit, shoot for the stratosphere! :eyes:

[VegasWolf]

4. bush want's people that think like him. THAT'S the problem. n/t

[Technowitch]

5. In other breaking news, captain orders deck-chairs rearranged on Titanic

Crew also quoted as saying there will be no shortage of ice for cocktails.

Film at eleven.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. SNOW??? Unbelievable. He's been one of Junior's biggest whores

...responsible for the "Ask The White House" response to a cautious job-seeker:

"The economy is firing on all cylinders" (http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20040618_2.html)

How will the country survive without his unique brand of cheerful optimism?

[KingChicken]

7. How about a crew that won't cause humanity to plunge into dispair?

I swear this cabinet is going to spell the end of time as we know it.

[Javaman]

8. Yeah, by going from bad to worse.

[Robert Oak]

9. hmmm....he's gonna run out of sell outs w/ degrees

How difficult it is to find any educated individuals to go against
everything they know is sane.

[VegasWolf]

10. I guess it depends on the money. n/t

[Rose Siding]

11. "he doesn't have the strength in that stable"?

From WHOM is the idiot expecting opposition? Frist isn't going to honor filibusters and Hastert isn't going to take any bill to the floor that isn't backed by a majority of repubs! The Littlest Chimperor is shadow boxing again.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. New Economic Team--

Team Rocket

[LynnTheDem]

13. LOL!!!

OMG bush is too incompetant, too stupid, too ignorant, too much a total fucking FAILURE for words!

If people weren't starving, dying, dead because of asshole bush, he & his "51%" bushbots would be the most hilarious thing to ever happen in human history.

[Mari333]

15. shuffling around the deck chairs on the Titanic.............n/t