{"id":6979,"date":"2006-03-28T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6979"},"modified":"2006-03-28T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T13:31:08","slug":"staff-shake-up-card-out-bolten-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/staff-shake-up-card-out-bolten-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff shake up — Card out, Bolten in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The political establishment has been clamoring for a major change in the [tag]White House[\/tag] staff for weeks. This morning, it got one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

White House chief of staff [tag]Andy Card[\/tag] has resigned and will be replaced by budget director [tag]Josh Bolten[\/tag], an administration official said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

President Bush was expected to announce the shake up during a meeting with reporters with reporters Tuesday morning in the Oval Office of the White House.<\/p>\n

The move comes amid a sharp decline in Bush’s approval ratings and calls from Republicans for the president to bring in new aides with fresh ideas and new energy.<\/p>\n

Card came to Bush recently and suggested that he should step down from the job that he has held from the first day of Bush’s presidency, said the administration official.<\/p>\n

Bush decided during a weekend stay at Camp David, Maryland, to accept Card’s resignation and to name Bolten as his replacement, said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to pre-empt the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A couple of things. One, Card’s departure is not a shock; his name was always at the top of the list of those who were most likely to leave. He was the longest-serving White House Chief of Staff in a half-century.<\/p>\n

Two, the White House has reshuffled he deck<\/a> — but it hasn’t brought in any new perspectives. Bolten, becoming director of the Office of Management and Budget, was Bush’s deputy chief of staff.<\/p>\n

In other words, part of the underlying message Republicans had sent the president about getting rid of Card was bringing in someone who could offer Bush new ideas and a different approach to governing. Bolten is another Bush insider, who’ll likely keep the White House moving in the same direction its been going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The political establishment has been clamoring for a major change in the [tag]White House[\/tag] staff for weeks. This morning, it got one. White House chief of staff [tag]Andy Card[\/tag] has resigned and will be replaced by budget director [tag]Josh Bolten[\/tag], an administration official said Tuesday. President Bush was expected to announce the shake up during […]<\/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-6979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979","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=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}