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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 11:58 AM
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Tommy Thompson Resigns From Cabinet (like rats)
Edited on Fri Dec-03-04 12:17 PM by maddezmom
WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services (news - web sites) Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, the latest departure in a major reshuffling of President Bush (news - web sites)'s second-term Cabinet, The Associated Press has learned.


Thompson submitted his resignation to Bush, and planned to announce his departure at a Friday afternoon news conference, said an official close to the former Wisconsin governor who asked not to be identified.

edited to add update:

Mark McClellan, the government's Medicare chief and brother of White House press secretary Scott McClellan, is Thompson's likely successor, officials said.


Thompson's resignation brings to eight the number of members of Bush's 15-member Cabinet who have left.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=542&e=1&u=/ap/20041203/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_cabinet
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:00 PM
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1. How dare you insult the noble rat with a comparison to bush appointees!
:P
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:01 PM
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4. hehe...apologies to all the "noble rats"
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:00 PM
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2. Fellow Wisconsinites! We've been waiting for this! Prepare the barricades!
Make sure and guard the airports, and put up those checkpoints on I-94 and I-90!

We cannot let this miscreant back into the state!
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:02 PM
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6. Don't worry...
He will most likely be shuffled off to a mega-salaried
corporate CEO position in an undisclosed location.
bhn
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brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:27 PM
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27. More like K Street.
Lobbyist Heaven.
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rodeodrive1 Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 08:30 PM
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29. He's running for the Seante
Doubt that worm would have the image of a CEO. He said today about running for the Senate in '06, and I bet he does. He can't keep himself out of the limelight. Cheer up, at least he'll stay in DC, even if he IS Senator.
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:31 PM
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13. Look out for I-39
He may try to sneak in the backdoor!!! :evilgrin:
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:41 PM
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16. We also need some decoys to distract him
Anyone know where we can rent a bunch of Nun's costumes?
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:48 PM
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21. ROFLMAO!!!!!
Edited on Fri Dec-03-04 12:49 PM by ewagner
There's a party and costume store on mainstreet!

If they don't have a Nun's costume them I'm sure the porno store down the block will!!!!! :P :P :P
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lynx rufus Donating Member (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:38 PM
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14. We'll be covering I-41 and I-43 in case he sneaks thru
That fucker is one sneaky bastard!
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:41 PM
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17. how about some biological warfare?
He was in charge of protecting us so he should be pretty resistant to anything we can throw at him, right?
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 08:38 PM
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30. He's not as popular as he once was.
Still, it's best we don't let him in. This is Democrat country now.
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rodeodrive1 Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 08:42 PM
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31. Yes he is
Edited on Fri Dec-03-04 08:43 PM by rodeodrive1
Sorry, but he IS as popular, and could win a Senate seat. People carry on like he is a rock star. Why, I don't know. I feel sorry for Wisconsin. He could beat Kohl, but I don't think he will run again.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 08:59 PM
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33. Kohl would beat him badly.
The only reason he did as well as he did is that we ran a bunch of lousy candidates against him. Ed Garvey and Chuck Chavala were hardly good candidates. If Doyle had run against him in 1998, he would have won, but it would have been a lot closer.

Sure, there is some nostalgia for Thompson among Repugs, but they would quickly remember the mess he left the state in.
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:01 PM
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3. Why can't Bush and Cheney resign too?
Although Bush is so stupid that he might accidentally resign and not realize it until afterward.
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Zero Gravitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:44 PM
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20. all in good time
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-04 01:55 AM
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37. that's not good enough...how long?
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 02:07 PM
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24. someone slip him a XV Amendment letter....
how funny would that be!
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:01 PM
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5. I've nicked them the Bush Scapegoat All Stars
Bush HAS to purge his Cabinet. They were the ones who gave him so much bad advice. With a fresh supply of scapegoats--he can pretend that last admininistration never actually happened, that he's in charge, and that everything is all and shiny and new.

:headbang:
rocknation
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:03 PM
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7. Tommy wanted to resign years ago
Bush wouldn't let him.
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:04 PM
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8. didn't Thompson always want Transportation??
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:05 PM
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9. Tommy Thompson's Letter of Resignation (Excerpt)
"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from health problems has been achieved."
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:07 PM
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11. yeah everyone is praying they don't get the flu
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:14 PM
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12. Well, It Worked For Ashcroft's Letter...
Ignore the problem and pretend it no longer exists... PRESTO! The problem is resolved.
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:06 PM
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10. Maybe Bush will find him another job
that gives him more free time to spend with his mistress?
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:41 PM
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15. The rats are leaving not out of principal but $$$$$$$$$$
Let's not forgot that these people are sociopaths
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 02:09 PM
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25. capitalistic sociopaths
i agree, they'll all be showing up in lobby firms and industries real soon
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:43 PM
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18. New cabinet post for Tommy: Ministry of DaNile
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 12:44 PM
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19. Please, God, keep that idiot out of Wisconsin!
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 01:39 PM
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22. Rats upset
I've just spoken to my four rats (Hecate, Pallas, Isis and Nephysis) and they assure me that this behaviour is not rat-like at all. They are very upset. I've assured them it was nothing personnel. So, another one bites the dust - don't let the door hit your back as you shuffle off to "spend more time with your family."
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 02:05 PM
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23. 8 out of 15 (so far)
so who, other than Dr. Evil (rumsfeld), is left?
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The Blue Flower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:53 PM
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26. You call them cabinet members
I call them 'accomplices'.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:56 PM
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28. Thompson will turn to advising terroists how best to attack the US.

Thompson Resigns From Bush's Cabinet
<snip> "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," Thompson said as announced his departure before department employees. "We are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that." <snip>
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=301259

Golly TT, thanks for pointing this out ...
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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 08:53 PM
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32. At least Rumsfeld agreed to stay.
I was beginning to worry.
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mb7588a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 09:52 PM
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34. He's a drunk womanizer...
I say let 'em run against Kohl in '06. Encourage it in fact! We can expose him as the anti-moral values dipshit that he and fellow Bush cronies are.
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rodeodrive1 Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 10:57 PM
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35. Wouldn't work
He may be all of that, but for some reason, the press DOES NOT PRINT OR REPORT IT. My question is: why not?
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Liberal Chad from WI Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-04 01:25 AM
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36. stay away from WI
Tommy we don't need you back in WI. You did nothing for our state except inherit a wealthy state and got out right before the economy went down the tubes. Go in the private sector where you belong.
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