Bartlett: Quitting the WH = Getting engaged.
Bartlett: Quitting the WH = Getting engaged.
From this morning’s press briefing with outgoing Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett:
Q Did you take into consideration at all in your decision the status the administration is in right now, the difficulties with Congress and the issues? Was that any bearing on your thinking?
MR. BARTLETT: Well, one thing I’ve learned working in the White House for as long as I have is that you can never pick a moment — it’s kind of like when maybe some of my fellow male colleagues who are struggling for that right moment to pop the question. You’ve just got to do it. You can’t predict — you can’t say there’s a perfect moment or not. You just — you can try to plan it, you can try to do this, but in the end, you’ve got to go with your gut and your instinct. And my instinct told me this was the right time.
UPDATE: As ABC’s Jake Tapper notes, the relationship is very close:
I first got to know Bartlett in 1999 when he was director of Rapid Response for the Bush for President campaign — “rapid response” being the term of art for having responses to any serious questions about the then-governor’s draft record, DUI, etc etc. If you had a question about anything uncomfortable or untoward, you were referred to Dan.
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What a lame giveaway.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:18 pmlike a box of rocks
June 1st, 2007 at 3:19 pmJesus, that’s just too easy…
June 1st, 2007 at 3:22 pmGuess he got tired of keeping the lies straight. Plays on the brain after a while.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:23 pmmy instinct told me this was the right time.
Yup. That and the ominous sound of footsteps.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:23 pmVK:splain please…
June 1st, 2007 at 3:24 pmBartlett and Rove sitting in a tree…
June 1st, 2007 at 3:25 pmGuess that means its time to grow up.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:25 pmRats deserting a sinking ship?
June 1st, 2007 at 3:25 pmMaybe it’s just that so many of his “fellow male colleagues” haven’t found the right guy yet…
June 1st, 2007 at 3:26 pmSay what ever you want about me, at least I’m not the President Clinton-poster-guy.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:27 pmMost people quit their jobs when they get engaged…or married.
It makes them so much more attractive.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:28 pmWhen you have to “struggle” to pop the question to someone you love? Fear and the fear of women must be a republican thing. So “just dooing it” must be using all the “control” taht they can muster. They just need to get some balls and quit shooting from the hip.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:28 pmGet a life dan.
Wasn’t it Dan’s birthday as well? Is somehow 14 years not enough time working for the same person?
June 1st, 2007 at 3:34 pmPatrick1 – God you’re f**king dumb. I mean it. It would be one thing to come on here and talk your s**t if you were the slightest bit humorous, or intelligent, or witty, or understood the term “snark”, but you’re just a pathetic, steaming pile of not-funny.
Guess the job isn’t as easy as they said it would be when you signed up. You can start by learning to read, then work your way through the funny pages, the move up to some web sites like The Onion, then try some witty movies and (gasp) books. One day, you’ll crack open some Moliere and realize that you “get it” and you know how to be funny – of course what will be the point? After all that reading and thoughtful discourse, you’ll be a liberal.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:37 pmVK:splain please…
Comment by whiteyfresh — June 1, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
Bartlett is fleeing a sinking ship, knows it, and can’t even come up with a lame excuse, much less a good one, to claim otherwise.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:38 pmSay what ever you want about me, at least I’m not the President Clinton-poster-guy.
Comment by Patrick1 — June 1, 2007 @ 3:27 pm
Jeez, I never thought that I’d agree with you on anything, but you do actually have that going for you.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:41 pmHe supports the Iraq War. He’s 36. The maximum enlistment age is 42. Surely he’s leaving the White House to volunteer, right?
June 1st, 2007 at 3:41 pmthe term of art for having responses to any serious questions about the then-governor’s draft record, DUI, etc etc…
In other words, yeah, I was only 22, but boy, could I lie! That’s what W found best about me. I could keep all the lies straight, along with my face, no matter how hard I was laughing inside.
What a hoot!
I’m proud of my servicing to this great American thinker. SEE! I did it again. God, I laugh like Hell at myself. I think I’ll get engaged.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pmAnother Republiqueer getting out of Chimpy’s monkey house before he gets gang-raped in prison.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:48 pmThen I suppose all the ones who have jumped off the good ship White House in the past, who have claimed that their leaving the administration had been planned for several months, really were lying.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:52 pmHe supports the Iraq War. He’s 36. The maximum enlistment age is 42. Surely he’s leaving the White House to volunteer, right?
Comment by croatoan
He will probably signup the same day patrick-dumbass does.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:52 pmThe day after hell freezes over………
Jake the snake said:
Is somehow 14 years not enough time working for the same person?
Comment by Jake — June 1, 2007
Hey Jake,
I have been working for the same hospital for over 19 years. No love lost here.
As for romance, does anyone know where Jeffy Poo Gannon is nowadays? I smell poontang in the morning. Is that you Jeffy?
June 1st, 2007 at 4:00 pmComing tomorrow… The Dan Bartlett legal defense fund. Just in case.
June 1st, 2007 at 5:02 pm“my fellow male colleagues” ?!?!
…oh, he means the homophobic, closeted, repressed, demented crowd in the WH that has Jeff Gannon/Guckert for sleepovers, and for dress-up games where he plays the sadistic military guard at Gitmo and shoves broomsticks in the boys’ asses…
…I got it…
June 1st, 2007 at 5:09 pmIn the Army…
sing it, Dan…
Y. M. C. A.!!
June 1st, 2007 at 5:12 pmBefore Bartlett, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation last November marks the last major departure from the Bush administration.
November to June, 7 months. This may be the worlds slowest administration meltdown. Or maybe natural attrition.
June 1st, 2007 at 6:19 pmDan Bartlett is an enemy of the state and the people.
He is a war criminal.
He is a part of a criminal gang now holding power in the WH.
He must be charged with the crimes he’s committed and given a swift and fair trial.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:25 pmBartlett is just hinting that he intends to pop the question to his secret lover Jeff Gannon > lol.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:03 pm