Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Li'l Scotties out and TurdBlossom slips back into the shadows
The NY Times reports on the changing faces in the White House. They note that Karl Rove is taking not really kind of demotion with his replacement as manager of policy development at the White House.
Mr. Rove will retain his title as deputy of chief of staff, but Joel D. Kaplan, now the deputy White House budget director, will assume Mr. Rove's duties as the manager of policy development at the White House. Mr. Kaplan worked closely with Joshua B. Bolten, the new White House chief of staff, when Mr. Bolten was budget director.So Turd gets to keep his control and has a stooge to deal with the mechanics of the day to day leaking and lying from the White House.
"Joel Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes," Mr. Bush said in a statement issued shortly after he left for a trip to Alabama.
White House officials cast the change in Mr. Rove's status in a highly positive light, much like the return of a star pitcher to the mound, and said that he was desperately needed to focus on the midterm elections that Republicans increasingly fear could result in major losses for their party. At the same time, administration officials said, Mr. Rove would continue as an overseer of White House policy as he was during Mr. Bush's first four years in office.
"We're returning to the structure we had at the beginning of the first term," said Nicolle Wallace, the White House communications director. "All that changes is that the management of the day-to-day policy process will be put under Joel. Karl will keep the high-yield strategic role that he's always had."
Oh, and Scott McClellan is leaving Washington, trailing a reputation as grand as the Civil War general of the same name.
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