i thought he about to head into the middle east to do some post-arafat stuff?

i feel like this is more cabinet turnover than normal.

Funny SNL quote,

W says "Colin Powell cleared out his desk like two years ago."


Ain't that the truth.

Totally. The seed for this was planted the day he walked into the UN for the hearings when W put him in a lose/lose situation.

Rumor has it Condi is the likely successor.

God help us.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... sh_rice_dc

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NMR- Colin Powell washes his hands.

Besides Powell, who had argued Bush's case for ousting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before a skeptical U.N. Security Council in February 2003, others whose resignations were confirmed Monday included Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Education Secretary Rod Paige and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham.

The departures of Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans had been announced last week. The resignations announced Monday bring to six - out of 15 - the number of Cabinet members to decide so far to leave.

from cnn.com....

damn... 6/15.

Now THAT'S a mandate!

6 since his re-election. Eight total from his original cabinet.

Reagan's entire cabinet practically changed during his 2 terms.

Carter lost 8 members of his cabinet in one term.

10 of Clinton's original cabinet members resigned. Many of their replacements resigned also.

Jeez, 4 years of jumping on EVERYTHING that goes on in this asshole's 2nd term.

Thanks for posting this Steve, I was curious and didn't feel like any research.

The funny thing to me was in 2000 everyone said it'll be OK, because they will assemble a smart team around W...and now many of those folks are bouncing. I wish Cheney and Rumsfield and Condoleeza would get the hint and get the fuck outta there, too; then again that might open us up to their "B" teamers, and we all know that would be scary.

Prediction: Dick Cheney will assume the vice-presidency on 20 January 2005, but will not serve out his term; he'll die September '06, complications of heart disease. His successor will be -- drum-roll -- Lynne Cheney, who, despite extreme distress from losing her husband of more than forty years and father of her one-and-a-half daughters, will accept President Bush's offer of the vice-presidency (which the House and Senate will approve; you cannot filibuster, or otherwise block, a grieving widow (call it the Carnahan Effect)).

This then sets up an '08 race of Lynne Cheney (she'll still have a "sympathy vote", though I mean that as non-derisively as possible) and John Breaux (who'll make the Republican side a national-unity ticket) against some combination of Ben Nelson, Harold Ford, Jr., and Jeannette Napolitano. Probably Cheney-Breaux against Napolitano-Ford.

The media will love it. All the story-lines: sorrowful but resolute widow intent on avenging her fallen husband's virtue (which will be sorely tested, while alive and posthumously, by a Bipartisan Commission looking into the Energy Taskforce of '01 and the Halliburton Contracts of '03); two women squaring off for the presidency, ensuring the state's first female chief executive; two southern blue-dogs vying for the (probably still) Solid South (meaning, it still goes Republican); a black on a major-party national ticket; "true" bipartisanship (Rep-Dem slate for incumbent party).

Great theatre.

please don't ever post again.

Without his moderating influence, it is scary to think what this means for our foreign policy.