A trusted Bush aide to return, but not to Washington

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/politics/campaign/28HUGHES.html

Karen P. Hughes was always described as one of the most powerful women ever to serve in the White House. But the most attention she ever got was when she left her West Wing office 21 months ago and went home with her family to Texas. Now she is coming back, and as far as the battered White House is concerned, it is not a moment too soon.

Ms. Hughes is stepping up her engagement with the president's re-election campaign just as she is beginning a six-week tour for a new book, "Ten Minutes From Normal," an autobiography that friends say paints a predictably glowing portrait of her longtime boss, the president of the United States.

To the relief of Bush aides who acknowledge that the White House has been on the political defensive since January, the memoir hits bookstores Tuesday, the week after a book by Richard A. Clarke that blasted the administration with the charge that Mr. Bush ignored warnings about the Sept. 11 attacks.

But advisers to the president say that Ms. Hughes's impending return to a more full-time role has stirred some unease within a campaign that has been wholly the province of Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief political adviser.
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"There's always friction with Karl," said one Bush adviser, who asked not to be named because he did not want to be seen as criticizing Mr. Rove. "But some of it is because of the difference of their jobs. Karen's job is to articulate the message, and Karl's job is to cater and pander to the base. Karl is trying to work in the Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed message, and Karen is listening to the soccer moms."
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they were humans. She, as is the rest of the * administration, are lizards.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

slor!!!!!!!!


STILL

LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!

That the Bush Jr. Administration was having a lot of problems before the 11 September 2001. The first thing they attempted was raising the levels of arsenic in water. That really flopped. The strong arming in the Senate that led to Mr. Jim Jeffords switching from a Republican to an Independent. Mr. bush Jr.'s ratings has a president were at best dismal until 9/11.

If Ms. Karen Hughes was part of this program, we have nothing to worry about. The media was given a carrot by the FCC and cannot follow though, now the public is wary and this administration is in disarray. Ms. Hughes is not the winner she propped up to be.

let alone bail them out of this fiasco.
remember the "lump in the bed" poem?
they must be desperate. good. bastards.

before leaving her job.

LOL


Tut-tut

:eyes:

Watch "Barney Cam II: Barney Reloaded," the highly anticipated sequel to last year's holiday blockbuster video "Barney Cam."

http://www.whitehouse.gov

Good. Let them turn on each other.

team in Texas. This is Hughes at her best - all the other parents couldn't stand her, she accomplished nothing for her son or the team other than to make crass noise and aggravate everyone involved.

:kick: Karen Hughes has always seemed like a dim bulb to me.

I'd like to ponder that it is because Rove is going out.

She should be ashamed of herself. I thought that she had more self-respect.

Unlike Mr. Rove, who has become a lightning rod for criticism of the administration's aggressive political operation, Ms. Hughes is the smiling, media-savvy White House representative whose book now wraps her — and, by implication, the president — in the heroism of motherhood. Its theme is clear by the identifying lines under her name on the book's front jacket: "Counselor to the President. Wife and Mother. The woman who left the White House to put family first, and moved back home to Texas."

will go straight to the Bargain Bin.

If BushCo really thinks they're going to win points with anyone by broadcasting what this woman does, writes, thinks, etc., they're sadly mistaken. I don't see her antics picking up anyone's votes, least of all the fabled "soccer moms" of elections past.

I guess Ms. Hughes couldn't fulfill her transvestite-sized footwear needs in Austin, so she had to return to DC. If indeed she ever left.

By contrast, it may look like a puff piece (which it undoubtedly is anyway). I think we've only seen the first of the polls that reflect the true aftermath of the Clarke book.

:puke:

we used to all start humming Darth Vader's theme whenever she appeared on TV -- it became a game that even my 7 year old daughter wanted-in on and paid close attention, to get it right.

Tut-tut

She's continued to work in D.C. every other week, paid by the RNC. Karl will be in the W.H. while Nurse Rached will be flying and playing mommy to the candidate. Andy Card must be immensely relieved. Remember how upset he was in the Suskind article that once Karen was out of the building that Karl would be in charge of everything.

However, not to worry. It seems Ms. Hughes is advising this "howitzer treatment" regarding the Clarke affair, a sure loser:

Most recently, Ms. Hughes was an advocate of the howitzer treatment of Mr. Clarke, the former counterterrorism chief who was attacked by the White House as politically motivated and dishonest. She was also a sounding board for Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, who reached out to Ms. Hughes this week for advice on how to present her case against the criticisms of Mr. Clarke, who said she had ignored his dire warnings about terrorism.

Ms. Hughes also advocated dropping from the State of the Union address any mention of the president's ambitious proposal to send humans to Mars, which was attacked by members of his own party as extravagant folly. "At some level the policy gesture didn't pass the communications straight-face test," the Bush adviser said.

As it describes Dubya "glowingly", perhaps it would be better titled
"Three Bricks Shy A Full Load".

rats R usually seen leaving a sinking ship. Does she have ship repair skills as well?

add: 'Three minutes from normal' (and lightyears from sanity)

Three bricks short of a load, no doubt. Book destined to the dust bin. This lady does nothing for me. Do some in the Bush crowd really trust and like her?
Shrub really seems to respect her which has to make one wonder what goes on behind closed doors. He must tell her all his evil mommy stories.

is in the air..and it's barely spring

I wonder if the soccer moms will fall for this new "gentler kinda bush" crap or the fact that they can't pay their health insurance?

the gestation period of her * book, and that she can sing the :nopity:Went home to be with my family blues.:nopity:

that was quick.

shes coming to help bush and push her book......