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White House Press Secretary announces resignation.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/19/bushshakeup.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Continuing a shakeup in President Bush's administration, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, while longtime Bush confidant Karl Rove will lose his policy portfolio.
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How does one get himself or herself into a position to be appointed to this position?
So if I am a Republican zoo PR person, I score!!! :thumb:
Actually my favourite one is Donna, is that strange?
West wing is awesome!!
Wish i had a none-portfolio position, you know...a position where i could rome around the US governments highest offices, etc. Seeing everything and anything, manipulating anyone and everyone...(laughs maniacally)
I dont like you migpilot!
(more sinister eyes)...
You might even get luck and get down with the first lady or the first daughter....
Imagine the scandal!!
Calls National Enquirer...
i miss sam
The Bush girls? hmmmm.....*drifts off into fantasy world*
Well, I guess that's more work for the Republican propaganda machine to pull out its best propagandist (you feeling the theme?).
Anyone else think it's odd that in a nation where even the local fire chief is elected in most states, the national press officer is appointed out of a politicized Civil Service...?
No. The White House Press Secretary is a political role, it’s pretty much the public voice of the president speaking on behalf of the executive to the media. I’m not sure what you mean by a ‘politicized Civil Service’ but in America since the constitutionally the president is the singular executive it’s a powerful position. Lots of appointments by the president change at the end of the administration – but while the president seems powerful there’s lots of checks and balances by Congress and the judiciary on the executive and most important appointments have to be ratified by the Senate.
"I listen to all voices, but mine is the final decision and Don Rumsfeld is doing a fine job," Bush said. "He's not only transforming the military, he's fighting a war on terror, he's helping us fight a war on terror. I hear the voices and I read the front page and I hear the speculation, but I'm the decider and I decide what is best, and what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defence."
See? He also hears voices. Oh happy days! Its like Nixon all over again. 13/1 that within the next month he starts asking the portrait of Lincoln for advice. :thumb:
Will Bush ever try to change the law to make himself impossible to remove from power?
I bet Americans all wish Clinton had had a Democratic Congress so he could have made such amendments for himself.
I'm sorta trying to start revising US politics now for A-level...Hmm I'm not that sure now, I think the press secretary is probably part of the federal bureaucracy so it is the civil service. But while the civil service in the UK isn’t supposed to be political in the US it is more so and to an extent openly. Since lots of posts like ambassadors usually change with presidents – the US ambassador to Britain for instance I think is openly a Republican it's sort of partisan political. Although in the UK I guess the civil service is far more politicised than it's supposed to be and it's something some say has got worse under Blair.
It’s very unlikely that Republicans would ever support repealing the amendment limiting presidential terms. Republicans in Congress have tried (unsuccessfully) before to get congressional term limits. And amending the US constitution is extremely difficult, you need a 2/3 majority in both Houses of Congress and it needs to be ratified by 3/4 of states legislatures. It could never happen and the Republicans while they probably won’t lose the Senate and House in November will almost certainly see their majority slashed.
You may recall the scandalous liable made by the incoming Bush admin that the outgoing Clinton staff had supposedly trashed the place?
I know, I just cant help making fun of him.