Obama Chief Of Staff Bill Daley Gives Up Some Management Duties

Yahoo - The Ticket ^ | 8 Nov 2011 | Holly Bailey

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Ahead of what is expected to be a bruising re-election fight, President Obama is shaking up his White House staff—again.

Bill Daley, who was hired as Obama's chief of staff less than a year ago, is ceding some of his management duties to Pete Rouse, a longtime Obama adviser who initially filled in as interim chief of staff when Rahm Emanuel exited the post in October 2010.

The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the management shuffle, cast the move as something of a demotion for Daley, who has drawn ire from both Democrats and Republicans in recent months over the administration's handling of budget negotiations and other contentious legislative issues.

Sources tell the Journal that Rouse will serve as "the president's inside manager," while Daley will focus on "managing relations with influential outsiders."

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Disturbance at the Heron House.....

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Fox was reporting this may be due to an interview he did with Politico that was not 100% pro Obama, Drudge ran headlines from it.

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while Daley will focus on "managing relations with influential outsiders." Fund raising?

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Bammy never liked or wanted Daley. Daley was going to be the grown-up that brought discipline to the WH.

But the idiot man-child president wasn't going to start acting like the President of the United States just because some cracker like Bill Daley told him he needed to. Bammy has his posse, and his posse likes the way that Bammy does things just fine.

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