Pete Rouse News
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When Barack Obama held his first prime-time news conference as president, the financial crisis was at its peak and not a single Republican had voted for his economic stimulus bill. So he pleaded for their partnership.
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President Barack Obama has signaled to his senior advisers that Denis McDonough, currently a deputy national security adviser, is his leading candidate to succeed Jack Lew as White House chief of staff, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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With his choice of Pete Rouse to temporarily replace Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, President Barack Obama is seeking to recapture the “no drama’ culture that defined his early years in Washington.
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Presidents who enjoy successful second terms usually pull fresh thinking into their inner circles and maintain close working relations with Congress. Barack Obama has shown little inclination to do either.
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Phil Schiliro, then the White House congressional liaison, put his boss on notice last year. One hurdle stood between him and the start of his re-election campaign: lifting the debt ceiling.
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The resignation of William M. Daley as President Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff brings to mind the words of David Wilhelm when he left his post as chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1994: “I’m going back to Chicago where they stab you in the front.”
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No-drama Obama may need some drama, or at least a shakeup.
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Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell says he’d love to replace Rahm Emanuel as Barack Obama ’s next chief of staff, while allowing that he may be the last person the president would pick for the job.
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Sarah Palin calls local media “biased and unfair” and praises an energy speech by then- candidate Barack Obama in some of the thousands of e-mails sent during her first two years as governor of Alaska.
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White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley is handing off some White House management duties to Peter Rouse, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama.
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