http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2002Dec13.html

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/12/13/law.resig...igns/index.html

Rumor is that Christi Whitman is next.

Lott is scheduled to hold a news conference at 5:30 EST - claims he won't step down as Senate Majority Leader. A lot can happen in 5 hours!

In a church lady (Dana Carvey) voice: "Isn't the world coming to be a better place."

[quote]Originally posted by RazorbackTX:
Rumor is that Christi Whitman is next.

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Christi Whitman is going to be the next archbishop of the Boston archdiocese? Wow. That will be something.

[quote]Originally posted by William1865:


Christi Whitman is going to be the next archbishop of the Boston archdiocese? Wow. That will be something.

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Yeah, very unexpected, who would have guessed??!!

Christie Whitman isn't going to resign...she's going to be recycled to a different job within the Bush Administration. Another post at which she will have little access to decision-making & will remain miserable.

~Adam

[quote]Originally posted by Adam:
Christie Whitman isn't going to resign...she's going to be recycled to a different job within the Bush Administration. Another post at which she will have little access to decision-making & will remain miserable.

~Adam

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The EPA Director recycled? Is that environmentalist humor?

[quote]Originally posted by Adam:
Christie Whitman . . . will remain miserable.

~Adam

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By the way, if she is so miserable, why does she stick around? Is she being held by force? Money-wise, she could probably find more lucrative employment elsewhere - as a lobbyist, for instance. And besides, she's loaded anyway. Why in the world would a grown woman who is independently wealthy stay in a job that makes her miserable?

Because she is trying to change the Republican party from within. Sound familiar?

[quote]Originally posted by mattkorey:
Because she is trying to change the Republican party from within. Sound familiar?

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Sorry, I don't buy this notion that Whitman is some sort of selfless martyr, willing to suffer any indignity and bear any high-level appointment in order to better her Party. Let's assume that it is her life's goal to radically change the GOP, to make it more tolerant, more diverse, less divisive. I can't imagine that the EPA chairmanship is the best war room for such an endeavor. But hey, whatever.

I agree and I think she did too. I don't think that's the post she wanted, and if you'll recall people were quite surprised when that was where she ended up, but I guess when the president offers you something you don't say, yeah, but I'd be better as Health and Human Services Director or a few other places she'd likely rather have gone.

Whitman will stay wherever they put her so she can be seen as a loyal team player (very important to the Bush team) and continue to walk the "corridors of power" (important to her future.) The Bush folk don't want to lose her out of some fear she'll write a book and appear on every talk show discussing her tenure at the EPA--and how she was kept out of decision-making discussions & was put forward by the Administration only to announce their questionable policies--policies with which she often disagreed. This kind of thing happens in every Administration, so it's not meant as a dig at Republicans--it's just they're the ones in power now. I had made similar comments about people leaving the Clinton WH.

~Adam

[ December 13, 2002: Message edited by: Adam ]

Whitman has no future in national politics, except as an appointee. She's too far to the left politically for the current Republican crop. She left New Jersey in dreadful financial straits and probably would have trouble being re-elected here, unless she were running against Bob Torricelli!

Whitman's appointment aimed to send a message to Republican moderates and northeasterners, I guess, that W. wanted a big tent and would include the last remnants of Rockefeller Republicans. Most of his agenda, however, appears to be driven by Christian conservatives, the energy lobby, and multinationals, and the super-rich. Whitman has wielded zero power and I doubt she wants to change the Republican Party at all; she is a lifelong northeastern Republican from the upper crust (à la the Frelinghuysens, Saltonstalls, etc.) and would probably retch before joining the party (at least in the northeast) of immigrants and the working poor (that was the Democrats' traditional M.O.). I believe members of her family or her husband's played some role during the colonial era.

What is Mary Matalin's damage? Why is she stepping down? Is she going to have children or has she just gotten tired of being so secretive working with our bunker-bound, endlessly fundraising VP?

I'm glad Law is gone. His behavior was and is unconscionable. Or monstrous to put it another way.

Who cares about Matalin ? She's an ugly, shrill apologist for Bush 41 and Bush 43.

Mary seems like a sharp one too though. She's shrill to be sure, but she also has something on the ball. And she's married to Carville so she couldn't be intolerant. And I think you have to be pretty compassionate or at least have to have earplugs to be married to him.

He melts that icy Republican heart and turns her out. She could care less how loud or obnoxious he is!