Snow Resigns, Paulson To Succeed, Zoellick Mad, Cheney Whispering

[kpete]

Bush to Pick Goldman Sachs CEO
President Bush is expected to announce he'll choose Goldman Sachs chief executive Henry Paulson to succeed Treasury Secretary John Snow, the Wall Street Journal reports.

"Mr. Paulson and other high-profile Wall Street executives are thought to have topped the list of possible new treasury secretaries but showed little interest in taking the job. And last week, Donald L. Evans, a Texas oilman and close associate of the president who served as Mr. Bush's first commerce secretary, was reported to be the front-runner to succeed Mr. Snow."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/05/30/bush_to_pick_goldman_sachs_ceo.html

The Washington Note
Now Zoellick is planning to leave the government after hearing through the grapevine that he did not make the short list to succeed Treasury Secretary John Snow.

The question now is who will come in after Zoellick. Sources have told TWN that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prefers to appoint Nick Burns as her DepSec.

But Cheney may use his influence to block Burns, whom many consider to be too much of a "diplomatic type". During the recent UN Security Council skirmishes with Russia and China over how to deal with Iran, John Bolton and various other Cheney acolytes began a whisper campaign against Nick Burns.
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But Cheney had wanted John Bolton in the DepSec job rather than Zoellick -- and in this next round, Cheney will not want Burns to help further strengthen Rice's hand in foreign and national security policy.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001409.php

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. LOL: Paulson won't do it

Bank that.

Not a chance in hell.

[tanyev]

2. Does Cheney not like Condi?

in this next round, Cheney will not want Burns to help further strengthen Rice's hand in foreign and national security policy.

And there was the story about him chairing meetings that she should have chaired as National Security Advisor. Maybe he thinks she's a nice girl, just doesn't have enough "gravitas".

[Sydnie]

3. Didn't blivet** just say last week during his presser with Blair

that he hadn't heard anything about Snow leaving? Why did he need to lie about it last week? Does he want us to believe that everybody else knew but him, so someone else picked the new guy instead of him? Can he blame someone else if it doesn't work out this way?

:wtf:

[leesa]

4. LOL!! It's like tryouts for the cheerleading squad. They can't bring

in any fresh blood because they have to keep it within the Crime Syndicate and they are fighting like a pre-menstral sorority.