Meet Rove's replacement

[babylonsister]

Rove Replacement Seen as Highly Partisan Go-Getter

By Michael Abramowitz
Monday, September 10, 2007; Page A13

While President Bush was in Australia last week, the White House completed the divvying-up of Karl Rove's sizable and important portfolio.

Rove's longtime deputy Barry Jackson is taking over management of the four offices Rove supervised (political affairs, intergovernmental relations, public liaison and strategic initiatives), while new White House counselor Ed Gillespie will assume Rove's more amorphous role of providing Bush broader strategic advice -- with an assist from Jackson and communications chief Kevin Sullivan.

Jackson is one of those Washington worker bees who is virtually unknown outside the White House fence but is well-regarded inside. Early in the Bush presidency, he coordinated the so-called Strategery Group, the senior officials who met regularly for long-term planning under Rove's auspices.

Until he joined the White House in 2001, the District native was perhaps best known as a key operative, promoter and chief of staff for Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), now House minority leader. Jackson impressed Rove with his assistance in the 2000 campaign, including helping to manage the GOP convention in Philadelphia and organizing a group of Republican governors to campaign on Bush's behalf.

Jackson is seen as cool, analytical and fiercely partisan -- "none of this 'let's get along' kind of stuff," in the words of one GOP acquaintance from Capitol Hill, who described Jackson "as the man behind The Man."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/09/AR2007090901657.html?nav=rss_politics

[cali]

1. I don't believe Rove's being replaced

He's just offstage directing things, rather than in the limelight.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Correct. Rove just moved his desk. That's all. He was at the Hay Adams for a political lunch...

just last week.

[blogslut]

3. Names to faces

Here's a photo of Mr. Jackson:

[Olney Blue]

4. He looks like a mutated Rove. Meet the new Rove, same as the old Rove.

Only mutated.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Gee, another overfed Baby Huey coward bitch MFer

Quelle surprise!

[DFW]

5. Rove just became the man behind the curtain

And the curtain is showing some very fat bulges........

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Barry Jackson has Abramoff ties

Ex-Aide to Majority Leader Had Contacts with Abramoff:


The former chief of staff to John Boehner, Barry Jackson, accepted an invitation to travel to Saipan in the Marianas Islands to visit with clients of Jack Abramoff, but decided not to go. According to the Associated Press, Jackson, now chief deputy to White House aide Karl Rove, was contacted by Abramoff associate David Safavian – who is now indicted for his role in the Abramoff affair – on visiting Saipan to look at the working conditions at garment factories on the Islands. Jackson cannot remember why he did not go to the Islands. On Sunday’s Meet the Press Boehner said that Abramoff may have been in contact with “low-level employees” in his office.

http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/taxonomy/term/96

And the greater in-depth article about all this, and more at Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/3/02456/15013

[formercia]

8. Just like Rummy moved to the basement of the Pentagon.

Everything remains the same, only the public faces change.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Gillespie Is Also Calling The Shots

This is the chipmunk who headed the RNC before Mehlmann and is a big time weasel. He's been working behind the scenes for a while in maintaining all the dirty tricks and propaganda operations. The lies about the "successful surge" have Gillespie's fingerprints all over it.

Jackson looks like his job is to bury whatever bodies he can...cover the tracks and keep the stonewalls in place from any investigations. He's yet another of the rats that are just being brought to light after years of working in the shadows...this regime is loaded with Jacksons...all complicit criminals.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. From DailyKos:

Connecting Boehner, Abramoff, Rove, sweatshops, Medicare scams, Social Security and more

by dengre

Thu Feb 02, 2006 at 09:24:56 PM PDT

The links were out there, but Boehner's election lead me to the key (and the glue). He is a fellow named Barry Jackson, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Senior Advisor (Karl Rove).

Barry's bio sheds some light on how Boehner won:

From 1991 until accepting his presidential appointment, Barry served as chief of staff for Congressman John Boehner (R-OH). In addition to working for Representative Boehner, Barry served in a variety of positions on Capitol Hill. In 1994 Barry was the Director of the "Contract with America," the campaign plan Republicans used to successfully recapture control of the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1995 to 1998, Barry also served as Executive Director of the House Republican Conference, helping to craft legislative and communications activity for Republican Representatives of the Congress.

Jackson is a key player on Rove's team and a long-time Boehner man. I have no doubt that some well placed phone calls delivered the votes.

Ah, but there is more. Let's connect some dots on the jump.

much more...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/3/02456/15013

[Flabbergasted]

11. Kick

[goforit]

12. From bad to worse?

[spanone]

13. Rove Replacement Seen as Highly Partisan Go-Getter - imagine that!