au1929 wrote:Many of Bush's old boys are really not-so-old girls
By KENNETH R. BAZINET
and THOMAS M. DeFRANK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Quote:WASHINGTON - Harriet Miers' Supreme Court nomination shocked political and legal circles, but not veteran Bush-watchers: President Bush may be a charter member of the old-boy network, but he's always surrounded himself with women.Bush's inner circle arguably includes more females than any other President, many of whom have longstanding professional relationships with him dating back to his days as Texas governor.
Besides Miers, his former personal lawyer and staff secretary, Bush's distaff corps includes two cabinet officers - Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes, handed the herculean task of selling American values to the world, is Bush's most trusted political confidant.
Moreover, nearly half of Bush staffers with the coveted "assistant to the President" title are women, including the homeland security, legislative liaison and personnel chiefs.
Friends say Bush's penchant for appointing assertive, overachieving women to his personal staff was nurtured at home, where former First Lady Barbara Bush, the tough-as-nails matriarch of the Bush clan, was the family enforcer when the future President was growing up.
A former top staffer adds: "He likes punching that [diversity] ticket because it insulates him from white-boy criticism."
There's another common thread to All the President's Women: total fealty to the boss.
"They are all extremely loyal and subordinate their own ambitions to him," an ex-Bush staffer observed.
All the President’s women
I wonder if he played with dolls and wore a skirt as a youngster. And for that matter if he still does.
Huh? If the damn man is able to enjoy working with powerful women, that is one of the few things about him that I can applaud.
What crapola, Au!
"Overachieving women"...what in hell is that supposed to mean?
What a sexist and stupid piece.
So, not being threatened by women means you are a "girly man" as idiots like the governator see life?
Insulates from white boy criticism? This implies women and non whites cannot offer criticism of him?
Seems to me he chooses people, male and female, who will not criticise him.
What a nasty sniggering piece.
