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"Bush spokesman quits; Rove sheds policy role ‘I have given it my all,’ McClellan says; Rove to focus on midterm election BREAKING NEWS NBC News and news services Updated: 10:13 a.m. ET April 19, 2006 WASHINGTON - A Bush administration shakeup continued Wednesday, with White House press secretary Scott McClellan announcing his resignation and a source saying that adviser Karl Rove would shed some duties. Appearing with Bush on the White House South Lawn just before the president boarded a helicopter at the start a trip to Alabama, McClellan, who has parried especially fiercely with reporters on Iraq and on intelligence issues, told Bush: “I have given it my all sir and I have given you my all sir, and I will continue to do so as we transition to a new press secretary.” Bush said McClellan had “a challenging assignment.” “I thought he handled his assignment with class, integrity,” the president said. “It’s going to be hard to replace Scott, but nevertheless he made the decision and I accepted it. One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas and talking about the good old days.” McClellan was named press secretary in June 2003, not long after the United States invaded Iraq and had first been a deputy to Ari Fleischer in the job — a White House position with daily visibility rivaling virtually everyone there except the president. New Rove duties Also, a senior administration official revealed another move in the ongoing shakeup of Bush’s staff, saying Rove, the president's longtime confidant and adviser, is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections. Just over a year ago, Rove was promoted to deputy chief of staff in charge of most White House policy coordination. That new portfolio came on top of his title as senior adviser and role of chief policy aide to Bush. But now, the job of deputy chief of staff for policy is being given to Joel Kaplan, now the White House’s deputy budget director, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the president had not yet made the announcement. The move signals a possibly broad effort to rearrange and reinvigorate Bush’s staff by new chief of staff Joshua Bolten. Bolten moved into his position last week; Kaplan was his No. 2 person at the Office of Management and Budget. At least for the time being, the promotion of Kaplan would leave Bush with three deputy chiefs of staff: Rove, Kaplan and Joe Hagin, who oversees administrative matters, intelligence and other national security issues. © 2006 MSNBC Interactive "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12387465/

4/19/2006 10:39:44 AM

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"Rove, the president's longtime confidant and adviser, is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections."

in other words, he's going to start spinnin'

[Edited on April 19, 2006 at 10:59 AM. Reason : .]

4/19/2006 10:55:27 AM

It's about time McClellan left. he always looked to be on the verge of beaking into tears.

4/19/2006 11:54:06 AM

I never felt like he was a believeable person. Maybe that was because he was speaking for G.W., for whatever reason I always hated watching his press briefings.

4/19/2006 11:58:26 AM

they should hire that iraqi press dude. he was pretty awesome

4/19/2006 12:18:58 PM

He'd be well-suited for the job.

4/19/2006 12:58:01 PM

They just fired him so they could replace him with Larry the Cable Guy

4/19/2006 1:26:41 PM

aha

4/19/2006 1:29:16 PM

someone post the 'bye'

4/19/2006 3:12:20 PM

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"It's about time McClellan left. he always looked to be on the verge of beaking into tears."

yea but could you blame him?

this stuff with rove is just smoke and mirrors.

[Edited on April 19, 2006 at 3:18 PM. Reason : 234uo` ]

4/19/2006 3:13:20 PM

GIT R DUN

4/19/2006 3:22:07 PM

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"they should hire that iraqi press dude. he was pretty awesome"

4/19/2006 4:30:10 PM

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"It's about time McClellan left. he always looked to be on the verge of beaking into tears. I never felt like he was a believeable person. Maybe that was because he was speaking for G.W., for whatever reason I always hated watching his press briefings. "

4/19/2006 6:16:21 PM

Scott McClellan to be replaced with Bill O'Reilly.


And as for the Karl Rove thing, it's just musical cronies.

4/19/2006 6:45:09 PM

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"musical cronies"

4/19/2006 10:21:15 PM

something about chairs on a boat....moving around

4/19/2006 10:26:23 PM

And Kate Winslet

4/19/2006 10:28:26 PM

So bascialy Rove will be doing the same thing he's been doing.

I can see McClellan leaving. If I had to explain the bullshit that comes out of that office and constantly remind everyone that fecal smell is actually roses, I'd want out too


ROVE FOR PRESS SECRETARY

4/20/2006 7:33:38 AM

^ That, I'd like to see. Fuck the puppeteering. Let the man explain policy himself.

Better yet. Rove for President!!!1

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 12:29 PM. Reason : ...]

4/20/2006 12:29:29 PM