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Denis McDonough, speaks to the press after meeting Honduran President Porfirio Lobo at the Government Palace in Tegucigalpa in this November 28, 2012 photo.
The president will make the widely expected announcement at 12:10 a.m. ET from the White House East Room as part of a slew of promotions for administration staffers.
McDonough will become Obama’s fifth chief of staff, replacing Jack Lew, who was nominated by the president to become Treasury Secretary. Lew took over the post from Bill Daley, who was inserted in the post after Rahm Emanuel left the White House to run for mayor of Chicago. Longtime Obama adviser Pete Rouse briefly served as acting chief of staff between Emanuel’s exit and Daley’s entrance.
Five chiefs of staff is the most for a president in the modern era, since at least Harry Truman.
President Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan also had four chiefs of staff. President George H.W. Bush had three, including James Baker, who also served in the position for Reagan, the only person to serve in the post for two different presidents in at least the last 50 years. President George W. Bush had two.
Rob Nabors -- the president’s current director of legislative affairs, who was involved in the fiscal cliff negotiations -- will be named assistant to the president and Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy.
Tony Blinken will replace McDonough as assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor.
Dan Pfeiffer, a 2008 Obama campaign veteran, who was White House communications director, will be named assistant to the president and senior adviser, a role held currently by David Plouffe. Jennifer Palmieri, who was the deputy communications director, will become director.
Other staff announcements: Danielle Gray will be named assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary; Katy Kale assumes the title of assistant to the President for Management and Administration; Lisa Monaco will be named assistant to the president and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (assuming John Brennan is confirmed as head of the CIA); Miguel Rodriguez will be named assistant to the president and director of legislative affairs, replacing Nabors; David Simas will become assistant to the president and deputy senior advisor for communications and strategy.
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So his royal high ass Oblahblah had his Labor Relations Board appointments ruled unconstitutional by the DC Circut. Hahahahahahahahahaha! Didn't the Communist and Chief once refer to our Constitution as a negative document (www.wnd.com/2008/10/79225), that's right a negative document. Oblahblah's response, I don't need no stinking Constitution, I am Obama the First!!!!!!!!
You're using one tiny piece of a much longer quote which goes on to explain the failures of the constitution, not simply its hampering of the executive office. Jeez can wingnuts ever quote something in its entirety, closely read it, and analyze it properly?
Look at those eyes.Honestly,would you let your daughter date someone that looks like him?????
Silly, the man works weeks easily twice as long as yours I'm willing to bet. He probably lacks sleep. There are also genetic conditions which cause capillary rupture under the eye lids which do this permanently. Don't judge so quickly. If it were meth/drugs doing this his teeth would be rotted, his hair would be turning ashen or yellow, and you'd see similar discoloration on the finger nails. Honestly get a clue.
What fools people are...your commander in chief is on his "fifth" chief of staff.....that is pathetic...nothing but one incompetent fool after another....keep voting those democrats...pretty soon what happens is every democrat gets a shot at every position until they fail at everyone of them before they are finally discarded like trash.
q, and nixon had 6 before he resigned, reagan 4, gwb2 5. And should the political pendulum swing completely the other way, just wait. You'll be disillusioned about the republicans as well. Vote anti-incumbent and independent or don't vote. You merely perpetuate the partisan problem.
Patrick is da man!
Anyone else notice the lack of any front page reporting here about the supremes finding barry'e appointments to the NLRB unconstitutional? Odd huh?
halnmar, are there any actual verdicts out or just speculations from individual judges? I hadn't seen news even on FOX about actual verdicts yet.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Obama violated the Constitution when he sidestepped the Senate to fill open spots on a labor relations panel.
The communist branch grows.
lap dog boot licker media don't report big headlines like...Obama's NLRB Appointments ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by federal judges....
it's a circuit court ruling. This will be deferred by at least a year getting up to the supreme court. And just as well, had republicans simply submitted qualified candidates that weren't equally as stupid and condoleza rice, they'd be blameless in this. Sadly, they'd rather block every candidate and take no responsibility in the matter.
Patrick93=dumb dumb libtard
Patrick not da man any more
Lurch is still alive?? YOU RANG UUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH.
Look at the look on his face. He'll quit in two years after Michelle keeps sending him out on midnight donut runs.
He is Obama's 5th Chief of Staff? Must be tough to work for someone who thinks he's GOD!
He's about as popular as Sheila Jackson Lee is with her staff!
The guy cant be a good person, or very smart. Cause if he were, he would tell obama to stick his job, where the sun don't shine. obama is doing his best to turn america into a country of freeloaders.
He looks a little pale and tired. Ten years with Obama will certainly wear a person out. I'm tired of him since day one. Wish he would just be gone for good. Oh well.
Another harvard hack who's never really had a long term REAL F'N job outside of leaching off the govt. And oh, by the way, here are a few factoids about this addition to the scum bag admin of obozo the EPIC F'N CLOWN...
In June 2006, Lew was named chief operating officer of Citigroup's Alternative Investments unit, a proprietary trading group. The unit he oversaw invested in a hedge fund "that bet on the housing market to collapse."
he received over $900,000 in bonuses while working as COO of Citigroup, following the company's $45 billion in TARP rescue funds, after it saw $27.7 billion in loses, a 90% depletion in value..
And we want this NEW crook (but not a tax cheat like geithner)...to run our Treasury dept.? That's like the mouse guarding our cheese. Nothing but lying, thieving, hypocritical, two-faced scum bag political prostitutes in this clown's administration.
Another puppet! Great!
Did Obama just pick a cadaver as his chief of staff???
the palest white guy to remind people that he's black and deserves special treatment.
will it stand???
over 100 of his appointments were just ruled unconstituional by the feds...LMAO..now they may have to be undone....
obama should read presidents for dummies before he looks dumb again....
oops to late...hes a idiot....
Move-up day for another of Obama's minions tasked to help with, "The Rise of the Fourth Reich"
its ok...obama is to stupid when it comes to appointments....look at what he was just charged with.
hahahahahaahahahahaahah,,,dont even know how things work and hes the prez....
yhea right...hes a tool,,,and not very sharp
More proof that Conservatives are an inferior breed...
It's funny and kind of sad. All any article title needs is the word Obama and all regular right wing loons spring to action in ths comments section to spread their weird fantasies.
But keep it up children, the more you post your ridiculous lies and rumors the more real Americans will be driven to the left.
Are conservatives necessarily Loons? Are liberals necessarily sane? Be your age man!
I think Boner, er Boehner, should have gotten the job. He could get the donuts and a Happy Meal in the morning. Anything would improve his unhappy mug.
I thought Kerry was Lurch. This guy looks like something the cat drug in and the dog drug back out. Hey,steve. With that black cowboy hat on your avatar, you look like on of the brokeback mountain boys.
Obama's doing something...you can hear the paranoid, angry, frightened, delusional insane stream media and their weak minded fans all sponsored by Dumb fUX NEWS going crazy again...
That's OK, just ignore them...
federal appeals court unanimously rules that obama's nlrb appoinments w/o senate confirmation were unconstitutional, no news there.
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said today "there can't be sustainable growth achieved though an endless creation of debt".
Maybe Obama should hire someone like him!!??
Looks like Obama's white half has kicked in this term.
wow..i see the feisty crew is out in force..
also known as libs r us....
so libs r us?? are yall still talking by e-mail to cover your ass??
whats mark think about your little hate group being exposed now???
hahaha its all about to come to a screaching halt....lol
can you say busted....just wait....its gonna be public info very soon..
must suck to be hacked...poor ddi