WP: Bush Will Not Seek Mass Resignations

President Is Said to Be Pleased With Administration and Eager to Move Forward

President Bush will not ask his appointees for the mass resignation letters that sometimes have been requested with a change of term but instead wants the aides to keep doing their jobs unless they are told otherwise, White House officials said yesterday.

White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. and the director of presidential personnel, Dina Powell, held a conference call on Thursday with agency heads and their White House liaisons and assured them that although all appointees serve at the pleasure of the president, there will be no universal request for resignations.

The decision reflects both Bush's view that his government is working well, and his determination to move aggressively to pass ambitious legislation before he starts being viewed as a lame duck, officials said.

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Although Bush plans no administration-wide housecleaning, not everyone who wants to stay will be able to. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow was subtly given the idea that he would not be staying for all four years but could take all the time he wanted to leave, administration officials said. Snow may help kick off Bush's proposal to overhaul the tax code and then return home to Richmond, officials said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29302-2004Nov5.html

we are in for "4 more years of hell" regardless...

Slaughter?

Murder?

Executions?

What a fool. What an embarrassment.

I see this as this administration telling it's staff "You WILL NOT make us look bad by jumping ship."

Anyone hear from Colin Powell lately?

I'm sure they're more than a little upset about Friday's front page.