Key Obama insider David Axelrod confirmed Thursday he will be leaving the administration next year, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is now expected to leave his post as early as next month.
These latest defections add to the perception that "no-drama Obama" officials are rushing for the White House exits before voters deliver their midterm evaluation of President Obama's "hope and change" agenda.
"I'll be here well into 2011," Axelrod wrote Thursday in an e-mail to Fox News. "At some point, I'll leave to work on reelect."
Axelrod and Emanuel are the two advisers Obama probably relies on the most. Emanuel, whose profane tirades are legendary, is now thought likely to leave the White House as early as October in order to prepare his run for mayor of Chicago.
The Axelrod and Emanuel news followed a rash of recent top-level resignations.
On Tuesday, senior presidential adviser Larry Summers announced he would be leave the administration and return to Harvard University.
Other recent departures include economics adviser Christina Romer, who had issued the ill-fated prediction that the stimulus would hold unemployment below 8 percent; and Peter Orszag, the White House budget director who recently broke with the administration and called for extension of all Bush-era tax cuts.
Also, the assistant Treasury secretary for financial stability who helped oversee the TARP program, Herbert Allison, announced Wednesday that he is returning to Connecticut for family reasons.
Despite the apparent high-level shake up, the White House is working overtime to assure the media that the defections are completely routine and have nothing to do with the flagging economy, or the president's plummeting poll numbers.
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When the blame starts getting passed out for all the promises made about the stimulis, unemployment rate, Guantanamo, "hope & change", etc, these people (who have about 5 minutes worth of real-world business experience between them all) do not want to be painted with THAT brush. Too late now....LOL...If anyone thinks that Obama can't stop blaming Bush for everything he does wrong, then wait til you see the finger pointing Obama will do in another year when the public outcry about the economy, taxes, public debt, unemployment, and rising prices becomes a cresendo of dissatisfaction. Sooner or later, though, he will have to confess the truth--- he is NOT the savior and he has never had a clue. He doesn't know a thing about economics or the military (he had the nerve to present the military with a "plan" to wage the war in Afganistan...lol...) and he is way over his head....
ReplyDeleteYou can compare this administration to the Titanic!! All the rats are jumping ship!
ReplyDeleteTh eonly person that relly should jump ship is Obama himself!
ReplyDeleteMr. Obama, please do the right thing and resign!
3:25 stole my thunder.
ReplyDeleteCan swine leaving a sinking ship? Because these are sure trying...
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