Another One Bites The Dust - Obama's Chief Of Staff Resigns

[ABM]

http://news.yahoo.com/bill-daley-resigns-budget-director-jack-lew-takes-192124817--abc-news.html

Bill Daley tells ABC News that he resigned last week as chief of staff, as first reported by the Los Angeles Times.

Senior administration officials confirm that Jacob “Jack” Lew, the current director of the Office of Management and Budget, will be the new chief of staff.

Daley was brought in to replace Rahm Emanuel, but in November his role was “changed,” with more power given to senior adviser Pete Rouse. At the time White House officials insisted the move was in no way a demotion, but it certainly wasn’t a vote of confidence.

A former vice chairman at JPMorgan Chase, Daley was heralded as having skills that could help President Obama, namely ties to the business community, and an ability to work with Republicans as seen during his days as President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Commerce. Those relationships have remained rocky, and Daley vented about some of his frustrations in an interview at the end of October with Politico’s Roger Simon. “It’s been a brutal three years,” Daley said. “It’s been a very, very difficult three years, an incredible three years. And we are doing all this under the overhang of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. F-k! It wasn’t like all this was happening in good times.”

Daley said that “on the domestic side, both Democrats and Republicans have really made it very difficult for the president to be anything like a chief executive. This has led to a kind of frustration.”

 

[maxiep]

Losing Bill Daley is huge. The fact he did it last week and it wasn't reported until today is odd. He was brought in by the DNC to help President Obama appeal to the more centrist part of the Democratic Party. Mission failed.

 

[HailBlazers]

Without a doubt Congress is to Blame. Democracy failure.

 

[ABM]

Without a doubt Congress is to Blame. Democracy failure.

FIFY.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I offered to buy him a drink on the plane Thanksgiving, since he and his entourage were in coach and I was in F. He sent back a nice note on White House Chief of Staff stationery that said no, thanks, he was sticking with water, but he appreciated it. Classy guy, for a (D).

 

[MARIS61]

The mere fact that his name is Daley brings a landfill of baggage that can only harm one's credibility. Throw in the fact that he worked for a company that once plotted to assassinate the POTUS, and you gotta wonder who's driving this bus.

I thought it a bizarre hire and am not surprised to see him go.

 

[ABM]

The mere fact that his name is Daley brings a landfill of baggage that can only harm one's credibility....you gotta wonder who's driving this bus.

Are you claiming Chicago-style politics?!

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It's Bush's fault.