Does it seem like the rats are jumping ship? Kentuck

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kentuck (89,391 posts)


Does it seem like the rats are jumping ship?

 
In their most ephemeral nature, it's as if they sense some impending doom?

Is the ship about to run aground on some rocky shore?

Everybody seems to be leaving.

Nobody wants to work there anymore.

They run from the truth as if it were some sort of poisonous gas.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211533474

Huh????

[FiddyBeowulf]

Huh????

DUmmie commenting about General Kelly resigning and trouble finding a replacement.

[SVPete]

Kelly resigned, and Pence's CoS declined the position. kt's Himalayanizing a molehill. If that were an Olympic event DUpipo would dominate the US team.

[txradioguy]

H/t EasyAce

Pay attention DUmmies:

For those who seem to care about such things, the shortest-lasting White House chief of staff was Pete Rouse, who lasted from the beginning of the 2010 baseball postseason to the near-beginning of 2011 spring training for Barack Obama. (OK, that's a slight joke.) Actually, he served 104 days. James Baker didn't last that much longer as George H.W. Bush's chief of staff--150 days, up to and including the day Bush's presidency ended. And the third-shortest tenure? Rinse Platypus with Donaldus Minimus. (150 days.)

The ascending time-served list from there goes as follows, with the presidents in question in parentheses and the number of days to follow; the Chris Bermanisms (what the hey, we got to have some fun!) are mine:

Kenneth Duberstein (Ronald Reagan)--203
Jack (Elementary, My Dear) Watson (Jimmy Carter)--223
Samuel (Mule) Skinner (George H.W. Bush)--251
James R. Jones (Lyndon B. Johnson)--269
Hamilton (Beach) Jordan (Jimmy Carter)--329
Jack Lew (Barack Obama)--359
Bill Daley (Barack Obama)--379
Donald (Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of) Rumsfeld (George W. Bush)--425
Dick Cheney (Gerald Ford)--427
Howard (The Butcher, the) Baker (Ronald Reagan)--490
John F. Kelly (Donald Trump)--495
Alexander Haig (& Haig Scotch) (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford)--505
Mack (the Knife) McLarty (Bill Clinton)--543
Rahm Emanuel (Barack Obama)--619
Erskine (Finger) Bowles (Bill Clinton)--638
Donald Regan (Ronald Reagan)--753
John Podesta (Bill Clinton)--823
Wilton (Missing) Persons (Dwight Eisenhower)--836
Leon Panetta (Bill Clinton)--918
Joshua (Nuts and) Bolten (George W. Bush)--1,012
Kenneth O'Donnell (John F. Kennedy)--1,036
John (Here Comes the) Sununu (George H.W. Bush)--1,060
Marvin (Kilo) Watson (Lyndon B. Johnson)--1,180
Denis (the Menace) McDonough (Barack Obama)--1,461
James Baker (Ronald Reagan)--1,476
H.R. Haldeman (Richard Nixon)--1,561
Andrew (Hallmark) Card (George W. Bush)--1,910
Sherman (Tank) Adams (Dwight Eisenhower)--2,086
John (U.S.) Steelman (Harry S. Truman)--2,231

Incidentally, if you're keeping score at home, the foregoing indicates that Obama leads the league with having had five White House chiefs of staff.  Clinton is tied with Reagan for a close second with four. G.H.W.B. pulls right up behind with three, in a dead heat with Nixon, Ford, and the Right Reverend Dr. Jimmy Sol Hargis. President Tweety (so far) is tied with G.W.B., L.B.J. and Ike for two. J.F.K. had but one.