BREAKING: Karen Hughes resigns.

[kpete]

BREAKING: Karen Hughes resigns.
Karen Hughes, one of President Bush’s longest-serving advisers, is stepping down from her position at the State Department as Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Before taking the job at State, Hughes was a Counselor to the President and played an integral role in his 2000 campaign. MSNBC reports:

President Bush had asked Karen Hughes to go to the State Department and help sell America’s ideas about democracy and the war on terror around the world. Polls show that there has been no improvement in the way the world views the United States since Hughes took over. Now it appears she’s resigning.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/breaking-karen-hughes-resigns/

[Fearless]

1. Another one bites the dust.

[rateyes]

2. Good riddance.

[madinmaryland]

3. I only recall her making one trip to Saudi Arabia in the last four years.

What a waste of taxpayer dollars. She did absolutely nothing in that position.

[Cha]

10. They got trillions of ways

to waste our tax money.

[Virginia Dare]

17. Don't be fooled by her..

she was flying under the radar, but she was heavily involved in micromanaging diplomacy (keeping a tight rein on "the message"). Of course, it didn't work, but I've thought for a while that that's their goal anyway, that is to screw things up as much as they can.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

43. Someone I know went with her and a group of college admins to India.

Idea was to draw more Indian students to the US. Apparently there's been a drop-off the last few years.

[Blackhatjack]

4. She had a tough job.... everywhere she went she got attacked for Bush's wrongdoing and corruption...

Makes you wonder why she came back from Texas to do this job.

If anyone knows the damage Bush has done to this country internationally, it is her. She got it at every stop, and it was not pretty.

[spanone]

5. again? how much did she drain the coffers for?

[Cha]

6. Why, when I see the name

"karen hughes" do I think of The Texas Fascists? Too much to ask for, that she would just go away and we'd never hear about her again, I suppose?

[DS1]

7. It's hard to take peace and democracy to the middle east when you realize

you might come back in pieces, burned, limbless, blind, deaf, brain damaged, or some other such typical military injury.

Good riddance to bad shit

[ThomWV]

8. So, won't this make it the Second time she has resigned?

Something about a wayward teenage son who needed tending to or some such bullshit?

[Virginia Dare]

16. As opposed to the wayward Bush who needed tending..

I've always thought that Karen and the chimp had a rather unhealthy relationship, she's kind of like the mommy he never had..:rofl:

[hiphopnation]

41. even more bizarre

is to consider the relationship that Karen has with Barb Bush. a disapproving mother and an over-paid nanny constantly tsk-tsking the boy king for being so irretrievably stupid.

god, i just gave myself goosebumps. ick

[Beelzebud]

9. Did she ever even visit the middle east?

[rurallib]

12. I think she visited Ohio

That's middle east isn't it?

[Beelzebud]

13. LOL

[AndyA]

11. PLEASE LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT, Karen.

HARD.

You are nothing but a worthless waste of space. A fat globule that has turned into an oozing puss filled blemish on America.

Anyone who thought you could do anything except screw things up is an idiot. And since you work for an idiot, it's a perfect match.

In the words of your Vice President Dick Cheney: Go f*ck yourself!

[PATRICK]

14. NOW where is she going?

Will someone permanently disgrace these bad pennies before they turn up again? She's probably going back to her real job as political hack in the campaign somewhere.

[tridim]

19. I'm sure there are plenty of other opportunities to completely fuck up something else.

She'll be right there to assist.

[Iggo]

22. My guess? Paraguay.

Or Dubai, maybe.

[BlueJazz]

15. Boy...if anybody every asked me my "Kind" of Woman....the answer is easy.

"Yeah..The opposite of Karen Hughes"

[goclark]

18. CNN reports "She is quitting." nt

[underpants]

20. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

:patriot:

[Tesla]

21. And giving them imunity was a good thing to do for diplomacy!!

"Negative events never help," Hughes said when asked how events like last month's shooting of Iraqi civilians by private U.S. security guards in Iraq affects the way the world sees the United States.

[underpants]

24. WOW now there is some experienced PR knowledge right there!

How much have we paid her to campaign for W?

[redqueen]

23. Awwwww... is she giving up already?

Convincing people to believe media hype isn't as easy in the ME as it was in Texas, is it, Karen?

:rofl:

[Tesla]

25. I think they are setting up a seperate govt. and they are leaving one at a time

so we don't get suspicious.
"Heck of a job" Brownie is the new Sect. of Interior. hahaha

[tabasco]

26. Just another crony job created to enrich one of Bush's friends.

She got the job just to pad her bank account with our tax dollars.

She sure as hell didn't earn that six-figure salary.

[tandot]

27. wouldn't be the first salesperson who had to quit because he/she didn't meet the sales quota

I guess helping to "sell America’s ideas about democracy and the war on terror around the world" isn't so easy after all.

[youthere]

28. Let me guess...She wants to spend moretime with her family. YAWN.

[Ezlivin]

29. Didn't her family already kick her out once before?

She quit to return to family once before. Apparently they were fed up and did a Return To Sender.

[Parche]

30. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY

I despise that B :party: :hi:

[lpbk2713]

31. Is there any significance to her announcing her departure on Halloween?

Maybe some 'little pretty' threatened her with a bucket of water.

[originalpckelly]

32. All the connies, err, rats are leaving the ship!

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

33. She's never around til she crawls out from under the rock anyway.

[petepillow]

34. It must be medal-time

She should be rewarded for all that progress...:sarcasm:

[Missy Vixen]

35. Better get to work on Laura's campaign, Karen!

The last time Ms. Hughes "resigned", she was actually working on a campaign.

Looks like it's another Rummy "retirement", huh?

LOL,
Julie

[regularguy]

36. To spend more time with her alien overlords, I guess.

[Patsy Stone]

37. Resigns from what?

I haven't seen her in years.

[rucky]

38. Whose campaign will she be working for next week? n/t

[truebrit71]

39. Again? More time with her family?

...boy she did such a good job with our rep in the world didn't she? :eyes:

[lse7581011]

40. Again? n/t

[sundancekid]

42. can an engagement to Condi b far behind for preznit cod.piece.not? LOL

ah, the muffled sounds of discontent at the state department ...