Chief of Staff Bill Daley Resigns and Budget Director Jack Lew Takes Over

Started by garbon, January 09, 2012, 03:11:52 PM

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garbon

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

QuoteBill 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."
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
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jimmy olsen

This probably portends a change of strategy in his reelection campaign.
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Admiral Yi

Agree.  Obama probably won't run as unabashedly pro-business as he was planning.

Phillip V

There has been a lot of chaos behind the scenes. I expect a lot of crap from the past few years such as disgruntled insiders, stimulus scandals (Solyndra), etc. to explode later this year.