{"id":11176,"date":"2007-06-19T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11176.html"},"modified":"2007-06-19T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T18:05:27","slug":"white-house-budget-director-portman-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/white-house-budget-director-portman-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Budget Director Portman resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, Bob Novak <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/06\/17\/AR2007061700942.html\">reported<\/a> that the White House was about to go on a veto frenzy, rejecting spending bills left and right, as part of a new initiative to reverse six years of Bush spending freely. Novak identified the man behind this project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is an offensive pressed on Bush by congressional GOP leaders and by his own budget director, Rob Portman, a former member of the House Republican leadership as a congressman from Ohio. Portman believes the 2006 electoral catastrophe in his state was caused mainly by Republicans losing the mantle of fiscal responsibility. Unless it is retrieved, Ohio &#8212; and the presidency &#8212; will go to the Democrats in 2008. By vetoes that would slice more than $20 billion in Democratic spending, Bush is seeking to transform that outlook. It will trigger an epochal political struggle in the months ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, it will be an epochal political struggle that Portman has decided to skip. The White House budget director <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070619\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/budget_director_resigns;_ylt=Ak1AYM2SME9LH0jdtYAkcbhp24cA\">announced his resignation<\/a> today. (thanks to TAiO for the tip)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White House budget director Rob Portman is resigning and will be replaced by former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle, Bush administration officials said Tuesday. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Portman said he was leaving the administration for personal reasons. His family has remained in Cincinnati and he has been commuting home on weekends for 14 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lost count of just how many top White House officials have decided to spend more time with their families lately, but it&#8217;s quite a few. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just a coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, Bob Novak reported that the White House was about to go on a veto frenzy, rejecting spending bills left and right, as part of a new initiative to reverse six years of Bush spending freely. Novak identified the man behind this project. It is an offensive pressed on Bush by congressional GOP leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}