Aha, Mr. President! You’re a pretty clever guy, graduating from Columbia and Harvard and all, but you have to get up pretty early in the a.m. to fool the boys at IHateTheMedia.com.
You gave Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus a new part time job as your Oil Spill Czar, but we see this clever ploy for what it really is – a way to move Mabus out of the way so Joe Sestak can finally be given that Secretary of the Navy job you promised him.
The Associated Press has the devious details:
President Barack Obama’s point man charting a new future for the oil-poisoned Gulf Coast will do the job part-time. Some environmentalists said the job demands someone’s full attention.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who oversees 900,000 Navy and Marine personnel, is inheriting an amorphous second job as the Obama administration’s leader of long-term environmental and economic planning. His task is no less than rebuilding a region still suffering afterHurricane Katrina and beset by decades of environmental problems.
Mabus won’t resign from his Navy job. When President George W. Bush picked Donald Powell to lead the recovery after Hurricane Katrina, Powell resigned as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
“The president talked to the governor about this, and they both agreed that he had the ability to do both,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday after Mabus met with Obama at the White House.
Mabus, a proven multi-tasker, will also find time to wash Rahm Emanuel’s car and pick up Robert Gibb’s dry cleaning. Because, you know, running the world’s largest navy and cleaning up the nation’s worst environmental disaster are just part time jobs.
H/T: ABC News
