Plenty of Embarrassment to Go Around Today (Dana Milbank on a roll)

[WhiteTara]

OMG This is just too wonderful!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/19/AR2006041901777.html

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"We have an issue with the helicopter," reported Bush, as his staff hastily prepared a motorcade. "Everybody's safe."

If only.

Nobody's safe at the White House these days, as new chief of staff Josh Bolten swings his axe. Andy Card is gone, McClellan and senior Bush aide Jim Towey will soon be gone, and Karl Rove had to give up one of his jobs. There's a new director at OMB, a new deputy staff chief in the White House -- and plenty more shaking up still to come.

It must be a particularly difficult moment for McClellan -- and the malfunctioning helicopter is the least of his problems. It speaks volumes about McClellan's relationship with the press that he chose to announce his departure while the White House press corps was about 30,000 feet over Alabama.

check out the derision...Dana didn't bother to clean up the monkey's language
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Bush bestowed the heckuva job laurel on McClellan ("job well done" was today's version) and said: "I don't know whether or not the press corps realizes this, but his is a challenging assignment dealing with you all on a regular basis."

:rofl: oh if we can't get rid of them one way, we'll laugh them out of office!

[SoFlaJet]

1. I wonder who is the "decider" about these changes

doubtful that it was the man at the top-again

[EFerrari]

4. Probably Mom. lol.

And seriously, what changes? Some are leaving to save their skins (if possible) from prosecution and others are just part of the shell game.

It reminds me of Dave Letterman's "Will it Float?" game -- or, a joke I learned in grammar school:

Okay, (extending hands palm up), pick a finger, any finger BUT DON'T TELL ME WHICH ONE.

Now, (cupping hands together) I'm going to mix them all up . . .

:hi:

[EFerrari]

2. That's the strategery that comedians have been using

since the Smirk was installed. Dana, you're late to the party but welcome. Make yourself at home.

:thumbsup:

[Ecumenist]

3. They just let the Grand Idiot think that he's the

"decider". (criminy). It's a damn shame and so embarrassing.

[gkhouston]

5. Dana's got his snark on today.

:thumbsup: Gotta watch out for those Metaphor Alerts...

[Ian David]

6. Photos

[EFerrari]

7. Hey -- Let's write a play, "Karl's Postcards from the Edge"

Guerrilla theater, baby, and it would write itself.

lol

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. "McClellan, who should be worth a substantial sum in private-sector PR"

Why? Did he have some skills in whatever his job was before he moved to the White House?