Comments on: Bush’s White House homeland security aide resigns.

By: Buckie Boy

Buckie Boy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:54:22 +0000

That exit door is pretty busy now-a-days.

Bush/Cheney
Hague Trials ‘09

Buck Fush

By: georgia

georgia — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:24:39 +0000

Then again, maybe she’s just po’ed that Mukasey was confirmed and she didn’t get the AG position.

By: joe cantwell

joe cantwell — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:24:37 +0000

“sprint to the finish”, eh?

By: Bartolo

Bartolo — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:23:03 +0000

“Townsend, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism,…[had]… a phone on her desk connecting her to No. 10 Downing Street, the British prime ministerâ€™s office.â€

Since the phone had not rung since Blair’s departure, she felt her job was done.

By: georgia

georgia — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:16:06 +0000

There are only 2 reasons people leave this administration:

1 – They’ve been implicated in corruption
2 – They’ve been confronted with a level of corruption or unconstitutionality that even they cannot support.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:03:23 +0000

Bush praised her that she “helped to better respond to natural disasters”! Talk about damning with faint praise!

By: APEC not OPEC

APEC not OPEC — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:02:21 +0000

Hummm…interesting?
Bush noted in his statement that Townsend prosecuted violent crimes, narcotics offenses, Mafia cases and white-collar fraud as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y. and as an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan.

From Wikipedia,

Townsend began her prosecutorial career in 1985, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. In 1988, she joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York where she focused on international organized crime and white-collar crime cases.

Also from Wikipedia,

A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a socially liberal Republican from the 1980s to present, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney.

Connection? Just Wondering.

By: bilbobaggins

bilbobaggins — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:58:56 +0000

Townsend, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, â€œwas one of the presidentâ€™s most valued and trusted advisers, with a phone on her desk connecting her to No. 10 Downing Street, the British prime ministerâ€™s office.â€

Unfortunately Gordon Brown disconnected that phone. So I guess there wasn’t much left for Townsend to do.

By: leftcoast

leftcoast — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:17:33 +0000

If Richard Clarke recommended her I would have to say she was probably a controversial pick among White House insiders. She was a confidant of Janet Reno as well.
“She was one of the leading defenders of the famous Wall,” “She was an assiduous defender of the rules.”
Columnist Robert D. Novak wrote that Reno’s onetime protege could turn out to be an “enemy within.”

By: Frosty Cupcake

Frosty Cupcake — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:16:34 +0000

tom:

I’m not ever interested in MILFs, but conservative men are never attractive to me.

Denial of Reality = Unattractive

By: tom

tom — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:13:05 +0000

I’m not sad to see her go, either. But you gotta admit — she and Dana Perino are the last of the MILFs in GDumbya’s administration.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:09:36 +0000

Yes, she probably has a cushy job awaiting her – maybe at a telecom.

By: Minotaur

Minotaur — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:55:08 +0000

Itâ€™s hard to get too excited. Iâ€™m sure she has a cushy, well paid job waiting for her in the private sector.

More than likely at a condom company.

By: Frosty Cupcake

Frosty Cupcake — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:52:14 +0000

It’s hard to get too excited. I’m sure she has a cushy, well paid job waiting for her in the private sector.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:50:43 +0000

Another corrupt Bushite to go! Hoorah!

By: Mugsy

Mugsy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:48:57 +0000

I was going to ask “why”, but I knew the answer:

“To spend more time with her family.” :)

By: Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:46:13 +0000

Yah, good riddance to these criminals. What crime did she commit again?

Comment by Minotaur â€” November 19, 2007 @ 8:38 am

Conspiracy to commit buggery on the American people. BTW: there’s a rubber hangin’ out of your butt.

By: Minotaur

Minotaur — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:38:03 +0000

Yah, good riddance to these criminals. What crime did she commit again?

By: Democrat Soldier

Democrat Soldier — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:34:06 +0000

#1 – “use some of your blood money to purchase yourself a pair of lips.” Comment by Vanthomas â€” November 19, 2007 @ 8:30 am

Haven’t they been permenantly attached to Pres. Bush’s anus ever since she was appointed? ;-)

One more down for the most corrupt, and corruptable, administrations in the history of the US!

By: Vanthomas

Vanthomas — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:30:04 +0000

Good riddance to another war criminal.Oh and Fran,use some of your blood money to purchase yourself a pair of lips.