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Bye, Bye, Bartlett

Dan Bartlett, probably the lowest-profile of Bush’s longtime senior aides, is calling it quits in order to spend more time with his family and, it seems, to try to cash in with a private sector job (“Bartlett said he was open to job opportunities and had retained Washington attorney Bob Barnett to help him in the search”) before connections to the Bush administration become worthless. Flashback to the classic chutzpah of when Bartlett denied the administration ever wanted to “stay the course” in Iraq.

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