Four scary paragraphs in a WP article about Rod Paige and Shrub

[iconoclastic cat]

Oh, crap:

Education Secretary to Leave Post

Roderick R. Paige has informed the White House that he plans to resign from his job as secretary of education next week, and President Bush will accept his decision, a senior administration official said today.

"The secretary has been thinking about it and talking to the White House about it," the official said. "Expect something soon on it."

Administration sources said Paige's likely replacement is Margaret LaMontagne Spellings, Bush's domestic policy adviser, who advised him on education issues when he was Texas governor. Bush's plan to nominate Spellings continues the pattern -- set this week with his selection of White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to succeed Attorney General John D. Ashcroft -- of putting personal loyalists at the head of Cabinet departments so they become essentially an extension of the White House staff.

Although Spellings has kept a low profile, administration officials said she was at least as influential on education policy as Paige was.



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That sounds very ominious.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. yes bush is kicking any non Texan now and

bringing all his buddies that did Texas in....

[billyoc]

2. Yep. No child left behind

at "rapture" time... :scared:

[hlthe2b]

3. Scared to death of whistle blowers, it sounds like...

[area51]

4. rats.

It's funny to see bushbots deserting the W.H., like rats leaving a sinking ship. "Run away, run away!" (Ref. to Monty Python.)