Posted on 03/30/2005 8:10:47 PM PST by RWR8189
President Bush is requiring Cabinet members to spend several hours a week at the White House compound, a move top aides say eases coordination with government agencies but one seen by some analysts as fresh evidence of the White House's tightening grip over administration policy.
Under a directive instituted by Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. at the start of Bush's second term, Cabinet secretaries spend as many as four hours a week working out of an office suite set up for them at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House. There, they meet with presidential policy and communications aides in an effort to better coordinate the administration's initiatives and messages.
"It allows us to work on a much more regular basis with the Cabinet in helping to manage issues," said Claude A. Allen, Bush's domestic policy adviser. "It also helps us lay the groundwork that is going to be necessary to implement the very aggressive agenda that the president has laid out for his second term."
The new practice applies to every Cabinet agency, although the heads of the Defense, State, Homeland Security and Justice departments are required to be at the White House so regularly for meetings that they rarely use the suite, said Erin Healy, a White House spokeswoman. Robert S. Nichols, spokesman for the Treasury Department, said that Secretary John W. Snow was already spending a lot of time at the White House "in large part due to his key role on the president's top domestic priorities, primarily Social Security."
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These are members of W's cabinet.
They write this as if it's wrong for them to be at the White House.
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Imagine that! The President actually wants to set policy! We thought he was just a drunken frat boy! < /sarcasm>
I am a small business owner, and I want me employees near me. The President's Cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the President and they SHOULD be near him
Where is Norm Mineta?
I guess he got lost.
Do they mean Bush is tightening his grip on the Bush administration? Hello Captain Obvious? These people are insane.
It is almost enough to warm the cockles of one's heart to know the left is having to stretch this far to find (or twist) negative stories of the Bush White House.
OMG - W is actually *managing* his staff? The horror, the horror!
Can I just say that nothing gives me more joy than to read whining, squirming expressions of extreme establishment frustration such as this. It just goes to show how so very long overdue this whole process has been.
And it's not even April! 46 more months - so very much can be achieved when you are a focused exec like W - we ain't seen nothing yet!
"Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer". The policy should have been a SOP from 1776.
Bush can take a flying leap. I'm through with him.
What a disgrace that our President didn't stop the torture starvation of a citizen. No one even had the guts to give her a lethel injection to speed the process.
There will be hell to pay.
Terrible! Four hours a week!
Boy, "W" better tighten up some more///(sarc)
why'nt you change your ID name to "i_dont_post"?
but one seen by some analysts as fresh evidence of the White House's tightening grip over administration policy.
Let me guess the Washington Post thinks this is a bad thing.
When Komrade Klintion was running his administration the post never saw fit to refer to the W.H. "compound". What pissants.
Thank you so much for your imput. I'll give it all the consideration it deserves and file it it in the appropriate file. Under "N" for nutcase.
Go slap yourself, cuz you're an idiot.
Well, he did stop the torture and starvation of about 50 million people in the last 5 years.
BTW, the next time I'm in an ICU ward for internal bleeding, I will dial 1-800-GWBUSH. /sarcasm
Too many trolls and libs on this site.
Based upon what I am seeing here, there is a lot of ZOT target material here. My gut is that there is a lot of pollution from super liberals... IMOHO.
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