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    Bill Daley Resigns and Budget Director Jack Lew Takes Over

    Bill Daley tells ABC News that he resigned last week as chief of staff, as first reported by the Los Angeles Times.

    Senior administration officials confirm that Jacob “Jack” Lew, the current director of the Office of Management and Budget, will be the new chief of staff.

    Daley was brought in to replace Rahm Emanuel, but in November his role was “changed,” with more power given to senior adviser Pete Rouse.  At the time White House officials insisted the move was in no way a demotion, but it certainly wasn’t a vote of confidence.

    A former vice chairman at JPMorgan Chase, Daley was heralded as having skills that could help President Obama, namely ties to the business community, and an ability to work with Republicans as seen during his days as President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Commerce. Those relationships have remained rocky, and Daley vented about some of his frustrations in an interview at the end of October with Politico’s Roger Simon. “It’s been a brutal three years,” Daley said. “It’s been a very, very difficult three years, an incredible three years. And we are doing all this under the overhang of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. F-k! It wasn’t like all this was happening in good times.”

    Daley said that “on the domestic side, both Democrats and Republicans have really made it very difficult for the president to be anything like a chief executive. This has led to a kind of frustration.”

    -Jake Tapper

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    • Yesor  •  4 mths ago
      Politics is the second oldest profession and it's not that different from the first.
      • Make me laugh now. 4 mths ago
        Prostitution the first?
      • Guess 4 mths ago
        Just like Obama and friends are like babies with Full diapers. They're all full of it.
      • Dooglas 4 mths ago
        selling your body for money? sounds like politics to me

        isn't that the first oldest profession?
    • tim  •  Pennsauken, New Jersey  •  4 mths ago
      Bill Daley said: “It’s been a brutal three years,” Daley said. “It’s been a very, very difficult three years, an incredible three years.

      I think the rest of the country knows exactly what this guy is talking about !
      • i 4 mths ago
        Tim. How hard is it to give bailouts and raise the national credit card. Last month central banker Ben Beranke said the real bailouts were 7.8 Trillion and not 700 Billion TARP. Can you imagine 7.8 Trillion with a T ? So many happy local and foreign investors. So many happy corporations both local and foreign.
      • It An't Ov'a Til ... 4 mths ago
        What's he talking about timmy?
      • tim 4 mths ago
        @ Prisoner.....you the pitcher or the catcher....for some reason...think your the catcher !
    • Mark  •  St Cloud, Minnesota  •  4 mths ago
      Kind of funny or very telling, When Kartrashians fart in public there must be 100's of comments in the first hour, A high level white house official resigns and we have no comments. Im scared for this country I truly am.
      • In my opinion 4 mths ago
        That's because lots of people are at WORK right now..... and perhaps unable to respond. On the other hand, lots are UNEMPLOYED, too.
      • Tara2001 4 mths ago
        You took the words right out of my mouth, Mark...
      • Guess 4 mths ago
        Give 'em time. Just watch the number of hidden Acorn supporters who try to tell us Obama is losing another Big Supporter. So will Daley become Rahm's LEFT HAND man in helping him increase the Death Rate of Chicago...as advertised?
        For anyone who wonders what that means. Chicago has become the Killing capitol since Rahm took the helm of the DROWNING city by lake Michigan.
    • Citizen with Common Sense ...  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  4 mths ago
      What does a budget director do when you have never came up with an actual budget?
      • Clem 4 mths ago
        Dude, That is it, right to a tee. This guy was a budget director?
      • Rusty Hanes 4 mths ago
        he directed. whatever that means. just more human garbage with a title and bloated ego to boot.....oh and pockets full of taxpayer money.
      • Synergy Group 4 mths ago
        ...Tap, Tap, Tap...hmm....still no budget???? hmmm....must be my computer's on the fritz again....tap, tap, tap.....well my cell phone works...hmmmm.....hey Barak, did you get that budget we did together? hmmm....that's funny, he doesn't answer. What a joke. Dems, er I mean libs, don't have the guts to even write one, a budget I mean. Some budget director, he learned on the job in Chicago, under guess who?
    • UBoatCaptain  •  4 mths ago
      Gotta love today's Washington. When the going gets tough, the "tough" resign and join some consulting firm or Beltway "think-tank." Thank goodness men like Roosevelt, Eisenhower and MacArthur didn't do the same back in 1942.
      • Old Geezer 4 mths ago
        McArthur was an over-inflated self-grandiosing POS!
      • 38 Special 4 mths ago
        Maybe so, but he was still great. By the way, Old fart, you might want to thank McArthur simply because you're not speaking German or Nazi right now.
      • EliT 4 mths ago
        Dont forget harry Truman they tried to hire him. But Couldnt
    • KAT  •  San Francisco, California  •  4 mths ago
      If he would only elaborate on the 'brutal, very very difficult, incredible 3 years'. Tell us all about it, we would love to hear.
    • Greg  •  4 mths ago
      Bill Daley - “It’s been a brutal three years.”
      The People - "F*** yeah, it has."
    • A Yahoo! User  •  4 mths ago
      How many more will leave this corrupt POS.
    • Raleigh  •  4 mths ago
      “It’s been a brutal three years,” Daley said.

      Daley wasn't even there a whole year.
    • Rick  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  4 mths ago
      how bad it must be if this crook is getting out!!
    • Zimmy Zimmy  •  Portage, Indiana  •  4 mths ago
      long enough to get a pension on the peoples backs?
    • H  •  West Chester, Pennsylvania  •  4 mths ago
      A former JPMorgan exec talking about good times that they destroyed?
    • ChrisH  •  4 mths ago
      I wonder if the OWS gang will be happy to hear that Jacob “Jack” Lew got a $1 Million bonus from CitiBank after the bailouts.
    • We THE People  •  4 mths ago
      Another corporate brick chipped away from the wall. 2012 will be a very interesting year.
    • char  •  Southfield, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      He resigned before the weekend and we are just finding out? Gotta love the transparency
    • Raul  •  San Antonio, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      “It’s been a brutal three years.” ...at least you had a paying job
    • Durangotang  •  4 mths ago
      Obama's problems with Congress can't be a result of his partisan rhetoric which began the day he took office, or his refusal to take responsibility for his actions. He blames everything and everybody for his failure to lead. Oblama 2012 - Excuses You Can Believe In
    • Becka  •  Huntsville, Alabama  •  4 mths ago
      So... it happened last week and we're just finding out?
    • Andrew  •  Fort Worth, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      I really don't see how this is going to make a bit of difference one way or another. We were screwed before him, and we'll be screwed after. Circle of screwed.
    • Leeder  •  4 mths ago
      It makes sense that the budget chief would replace Daley. We haven't had a budget for 3 years--the poor guy needs something to do.
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