WP: Card to Remain White House Chief of Staff

[kskiska]

Somebody's got to keep delivering those cheeseburgers.

President Bush, kicking off the first full week of his transition to a second term, made a surprise visit yesterday to the daily senior staff meeting with a news bulletin: Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. will stay in his job.

It pays to be on time around the Bush White House. The president stopped by the Roosevelt Room at precisely 7:30 a.m., when the meeting was scheduled to begin.

The decision appears to signal that Bush wants workaday continuity and plans to continue running a tight White House.

Card, 57, is known internally as "the Chief" and around the administration as "Secretary Card," for serving as transportation secretary under former President George H.W. Bush.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33887-2004Nov8.html

[MADem]

1. Card and Mitt the Schitt did not deliver

Everyone expected MA to go blue, of course, but they were hoping to pick up some GOP seats at the state and rep level. Didn't happen!

If I were Card, I'd view it as punishment. He is being allowed to stay on, but earlier, he was being suggested for other, more visible assignments with greater cachet. As long as Rove is around, he really is more of a coffee boy than anything else.

What will be interesting in all this purging is how many people might just sing like canaries after they jump ship...and how many newbies, after the stars fall from their eyes, will realize that the place is totally evil as well as FUBAR. I'm sure they are going to go for KoolAid drinkers in the replacement ranks, because you have to have an ultra-loyal team in the always fraught second term, but you also have to have a certain level of competence, so they may have to compromise and chose a few people who haven't had their consciences removed.