White House Budget Director Portman Resigns (House Majority Ldr Insults Replacement)

The Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 | Michael Abramowitz

[kristinn]

C'mon, Freepers. Look lively. This news has been out for over two hours and nothing posted on FR about it.

[darkangel82]

Both Hoyer and Nussle are of Danish ancestry.

Ick, I share ancestry with the ‘Rat leader of the House? Ptui.

[SkyPilot]

Deck chairs on the Titanic rearrangement. I have lost faith in anything they do.

[Bahbah]

Is there something bad about Danes that I don’t know?

[andy58-in-nh]

Must be the whole Shakespeare thing.

[Polyxene]

Steny H. Hoyer (RAT, MD) is a real class act, isn’t he? Then, again, he IS a RAT.

[Bahbah]

LOL. Looks good to me...the one on the right, I mean.

[muawiyah]

Sounds like it’s time to pull out your trusty dirk and drain your veins of the offending shared substance.

[ravingnutter]

Administration officials described the decision as motivated by Portman's desire to spend more time with his wife and three teen-aged children.

Sounds to me like the same old sugary excuse we always get for "he got his butt canned".

[IamConservative]

Deck chairs on the Titanic rearrangement. I have lost faith in anything they do.

I am beginning to think 4 years of being President is all anyone can take. Wide eyed optimism and passion can only carry you so far against a daily onslaught of personal attack and criticism.

[samadams2000]

Did he really say, “I’m out of here, there is no such thing as a budget in Washington, and wait until you see the impact of the Shamnesty bill!”?

[jpl]

I’ve never met a Dane I didn’t like, myself.

[gunservative]

Nussle morphed from paper-bag-headed outsider during the House Check scandal to pork-loving earmark god while head of the House Budget Committee. He’s your typical poisoned Washington insider. What a terrible choice.

[TommyDale]

"Deck chairs on the Titanic rearrangement. I have lost faith in anything they do."

Agreed.

[llevrok]

With about 18 months to go, presidential appointments jump ship and new ones are added (at this point) more or less to pump up their resume and bloated government pensions.

In short: Nothing to look at folks. It's all over. Move along.....

[NeoCaveman]

Is there something you want to tell us?

[mdefranc]

Here are Nussle’s and Portman’s House of Representatives rankings for protecting taxpayers during the years that they served together, 1993 to 2004, per the National Taxpayers Union:

003 058 048 044 075 167 068 123 102 108 110 135 Nussle
019 037 049 021 116 027 034 109 057 072 141 112 Portman

Nussle averaged 87th among House members, Portman averaged 66th. Their rankings started out quite well, but worsened over time.

[lilylangtree]

Nussle a hawk on spending. This is good, right?

[mdefranc]

Nussle once was a spending hawk, but for 2005 his rank was 131 out of 228 Republicans and for 2006 it was 112 out of 227. In other words, today the guy is mediocre.