Bush Crises Raise Criticism of Chief of Staff's Management Style

[Judi Lynn]

Bush Crises Raise Criticism of Chief of Staff's Management Style


By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: October 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 - With Karl Rove distracted by the intensifying C.I.A. leak scandal, some of the Bush administration's other challenges in recent months have cast a longer shadow on Andrew H. Card Jr., for years a guiding force as the White House chief of staff.

His office oversaw the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, coordinating federal assistance that was broadly condemned as too slow. Mr. Card personally managed the selection of Harriet E. Miers for the Supreme Court, a choice that has splintered the Republican Party and left the administration scrambling to rescue her nomination.

The confluence of crises, all running through Mr. Card's suite just steps from the Oval Office, has some critics asking whether he needs to clean house or assert himself more forcefully - or at least consider a course correction before Mr. Bush is downgraded permanently to lame duck status.

"The lesson of both Katrina and Miers is that the system of decision making in the White House no longer meets the needs of the president," said David Frum, a former speechwriter for Mr. Bush who has been critical of the Miers choice.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/politics/18card.html?hp&ex=1129608000&en=e890ad69eedb2f6d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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David "Axis of Evil" Frum

[maddezmom]

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