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TOPIC: Obama weighs major reshuffling of staff (WaPo 1/4/11)

Jen the Michigander

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Date: Jan 4, 2011

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Nothing about Hillary, don't be alarmed. I am posting this because several weeks ago, Ulsterman's Insider said that Gibbs was out. Now it's happening. This, IMO, lends credibility to some of the other things he has said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/04/AR2011010403135.html As President Obama returns from Hawaii, he is weighing a major reshuffling of his staff that could see as many as eight people playing new key roles in the weeks ahead, Democrats familiar with the process said. Obama has been mulling for months the possibility of naming former commerce secretary William Daley to be his chief of staff, meeting with him at least once in person, two Democrats said. Although familiar with the Daley family - William is the brother of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley - Obama did not have a personal relationship with William Daley and wanted to get to know him better. The secret has been tightly held, without as much as a mention in senior staff meetings, an administration official said. The official, like others cited in this report, asked not to be named in order to speak freely about private deliberations. But it is only part of a potentially much larger reorganization that encompasses almost the entire West Wing hierarchy, including those who have had the most influence over the administration's direction in its first two years. Among the biggest changes could be the departure of press secretary Robert Gibbs , who is said to be exploring the possibility of leaving the White House altogether, perhaps to set up his own consulting shop and play a leading role in the 2012 campaign, two Democrats said. That move could happen in the coming weeks. White House advisers have downplayed the changes as the kind of routine shuffling that all administrations experience at the halfway point. Yet as Obama begins making decisions on who will staff the White House heading into his own reelection cycle, roughly a dozen senior officials are jockeying for positions in an internal game of musical chairs - one that would grow even more complicated with the introduction of a new chief of staff from outside the president's tight inner circle. The broad redesign comes as the new Congress is seated, shaped in large part by an emboldened Republican House majority and a larger GOP caucus in the Senate eager to push conservative initiatives and undo some of what Obama accomplished during his first two years. Before engaging the new Congress, however, the White House will spend a few weeks looking inward, according to several senior administration officials, to define a set of goals for the coming year through the drafting of the State of the Union address and the budget blueprint. Making the right personnel decisions for a White House operation that will be more politically oriented with the reelection campaign in the offing will occupy a portion of Obama's time in the next few weeks. "We've got our own imperatives," said David Axelrod, a senior Obama adviser. "The president will have a full plate. We won't be here with our feet up watching cable news." There will be major holes to fill, including Axelrod's. Officials have known for months that he would leave for Chicago later this month, and that former campaign manager David Plouffe would come in to assume a similar senior adviser role. Officials have also been scrambling to fill the hole left by Lawrence Summers at the helm of the National Economic Council. Yet there are many more: Both deputy chiefs of staff, Jim Messina and Mona Sutphen, are expected to leave, with Messina moving to Chicago to run the 2012 presidential campaign. __________________ Nobody puts THIS baby in the corner!

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Gibbs can't leave fast enough for me. He has to be one of the sleaziest of WH Spokespersons to ever stand at the podium. Frankly, I think his snark is part of the reason Obama himself is seen as so aloof. His spokesperson represents that so well. __________________ Don't blame me...I voted HILLARY! http://www.barefootfoundation.com/index_en.php http://www.savethechildren.org/

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