Obama Reassigns Chief Of Staff, As Shake-Up Fails To Reinvigorate White House

[FarCenter]

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley is giving up day-to-day control of the administration's staff after nearly a year on the job, the Wall Street Journal reports. It's a sign that President Barack Obama's midterm staff shake-up failed to provide the administration with the boost it needs going into next year's election.

Carol Lee scoops that Pete Rouse, who served as interim Chief of Staff when Rahm Emanuel left Washington to run for mayor in Chicago, will pick up most of Daley's responsibilities, with Daley — now Chief of Staff in name only — relegated to an "ambassador" role.

Obama had sought Daley's counsel in a bid to mellow out the White House after Emanuel's combative tenure and strengthen ties with business, but Daley's management style has been heavily criticized as confused and ineffective. Rouse's organizational skills and relationships on Capitol Hill, by contrast, are widely respected by both parties in Washington.



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[msongs]

1. it ain't the staff, it is the boss. nt

[emilyg]

2. +1

[olleander]

3. Wall Street connection

I am cynical three years into this Administration.  With OWS
and the pipeline exposing the core of the Obama Administration
as the Democratic leadership wing of big oil and Wall Street,
this is another 'image' move to paper over the truth until
after the election.  You can't run as the guy fighting against
Wall Street if your chief of staff is from Wall Street.  You
can't run as the guy fighting for a clean energy future if you
approve the pipelin before the election.  Until the people's
party works for the people and not the money, the people will
be unserved.

[Huey P. Long]

4. All true.