Senior Administration Official Resigns (Claude Allen)

[sabra]

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/02/senior_administ.html

Senior Administration Official Resigns

Claude Allen, President Bush's principle domestic policy adviser, has resigned. A White House spokesman told the Chicago Tribune that Allen wanted to spend more time with his family.

Republicans who know Allen are uncertain why he stepped down so suddenly. Late last week, he was in good spirits as he briefed allies and surrogates about the President's State of the Union message. On Tuesday, he attended a conference in PA on the president's faith based initiative.

Allen enjoys a warm relationship with moral conservative groups in Washington. As a senior political appointee at the Department of Health and Human services, he was the administration's point person on abstinence initiatives.

Allen, who is black, began his political career in North Carolina, working for Sen. Jesse Helms. In '03, Pres. Bush nominated Allen to be a federal appeals judge, but Democrats blocked a final vote.

[YDogg]

1. Perhaps he'd just had enough of the lies and malfeasance.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I wish I had kept count of how many people involved with this

administration have left to spend more time with their families. That seems to be the generic excuse.

[Nite Owl]

10. And if it had been a Dem

President you just know it would be the question of day, top of the news. Can't you just hear it " Why is this administration losing so many people, what is wrong at the White House?" Followed by commentators talking it to death.

[Botany]

3. I know nothing about Allen but ......

...... Allen wanted to spend more time with his family.
Why do I hear this?


when that line is written or spoken

[havocmom]

7. Kick the dog syndrome? bush got whooped at that funeral

and a black man in the administration needs to spend more time with his family?

[HereSince1628]

8. You here alarms because it's just a cover phrase.

He probably was overheard saying said something nice about Mrs. King's funeral service.

[tanyev]

4. Even before I opened it, I suspected that he wanted

to "spend more time with his family." What's the real story???

[yodermon]

5. possibilities:

1) He grew a conscience
2) He's being threatened/blackmailed by the BFEE
3) His indictment is pending

[wtmusic]

15. few are qualified to work in this administration

you really have to be conscience-free.

[Straight Shooter]

6. Maybe he watched the King funeral and had an epiphany. n/t

[zanne]

9. "Spending more time with his family" has become a euphemism for...

"FIRED"

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. It's all about the Coretta Scott King funeral...wanna bet?

Funny how everyone who leaves this administration wants to "spend more time with their family.", isn't it? :eyes:

[annabanana]

12. And the ones that DON'T leave..

Well, their families don't want them around all that much.

[mattclearing]

14. I am sure of it.

His family probably convinced him that he was helping to destroy America, dismantling King's dream one disingenuous social program at a time.

[sabra]

17. remember there are no coincidences with BushCo...

[reality based]

13. Maybe he's the one who persuaded Rove to let the little emperor go n/t

[rodeodance]

16. Is there a website listing all WH drop outs?