Drudgico (you’ve been warned):
White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers will leave her post next month, according to a White House source, months after she drew criticism for a major security breach at a state dinner in November.
The tragedy here is that Sally Quinn won’t be able to write about this. If only this had happened a week earlier.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
The Zoo never sleeps.
FormerSwingVoter
The most depressing thing is that, every day, every single day people die, and none of them are ever writers for Politico.
Zifnab25
The Obamas are simply stupid for bowing on this. The Washinton ghouls wanted a scalp. Now they’re going to keep thinking they have clout (which, apparently, they do). Fuck’m. No one but beltway undits give a shit about this. The White House needs to learn to blow past this crap.
beltane
If Sally Quinn writes a column about this is the middle of the woods, will anyone know about it?
Redshirt
I hope she sincerely left for her own reasons and not to assuage whomever was kvetching.
jayjaybear
@beltane:
Please! When was the last time Sally Quinn was ever within 30 blocks of a forest? They don’t have cocktail parties in the wilderness!
licensed to kill time
I refuse to click on a Drudgico link so I have no idea what reason she gives for leaving, though whatever it is won’t matter to the cacklers who will claim credit for yet another scalp on their belts.
Rhoda
Zifnab25; there were rumors for weeks she wanted to leave. Apparently, this was speculated on in Chicago according to Lynn Sweet. So frankly, this looks to be her decision. The India stuff happened in November; if she goes now I don’t see the problem.
And given the karmic loss of Sally Quinn’s column, who was the first one to call for her firing I believe, it’s a great time to make the change.
No one cares if she stays or goes; and no one can really say boo about Rogers.
geg6
Heh.
I’m betting that Ms. Desiree Rogers deliberately waited until Sally had been shit canned to announce this. I know I would have.
ETA: I, too, have read in several places rumors that she’s been wanting to go for weeks. No one chased her out. It was her decision.
Da Bomb
It was always her intention to leave after a year anyway.
So not surprising.
Brick Oven Bill
This means that Michelle is down to twenty-five (25) personal servants. Oh noes!
Desiree’s salary for her excellent work was $113,000, plus benefits.
soonergrunt
Well, it’s not like Ms. Rogers didn’t have a life of accomplishment to go back to, unlike a certain aging party girl I could mention.
demo woman
OT the US is leading Finland 6-0 and it’s still the first period.
soonergrunt
@Brick Oven Bill: So Ms. Rogers will go back to a $350,000/year job then.
She’ll be richer, and you’ll still be a mom’s-basement-dwelling fuckwit with the faint aire of dried cat urine about you.
Being eminently fair, the universe evens out, as it were.
HRA
Maybe Sally will apply for the job?
Dr. I. F. Stone
Don’t forget that the new, shortened season of Southland begins next Tuesday
dr. bloor
@Brick Oven Bill:
Laura Bush’s staff was somewhat smaller, but not much. OTOH, Michelle isn’t straining the nation’s supply of psychotropic medications nearly to the extent that Mrs. Bush did.
Joey Maloney
@beltane: The bears will, if they run out of Charmin.
Dave S.
@beltane: No, but it will still be shit.
geg6
@soonergrunt:
Have I told you lately that I’d like to marry you? Because if I haven’t, that comment just reminded me that I should.
SenyorDave
She’ll be richer, and you’ll still be a mom’s-basement-dwelling fuckwit with the faint aire of dried cat urine about you.
Being eminently fair, the universe evens out, as it were.
Soonergrunt,
Nailed it!
Kind of like the old Winston Churchill quote, supposedly from an affair where the prime minister had a few and was admonished by one of the guests.
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
kindness
@jayjaybear
Well, so long as there was a driver and servants Sally may have been in the woods.
My only hope is that there would be lots of hungry bears & the servants would slather Sally in honey & jam & split with the driver.
Chyron HR
@Brick Oven Bill:
Would these be some of those jobs that the government doesn’t create?
Yutsano
@geg6: I hate to be the Debbie Downer here, but bigamy is still illegal in both Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. Nothing says you two can’t have as many fake spouses as you want however.
satch
Even if Rogers is leaving of her own volition, Politico is making it SOUND like the November security breach is the reason. Christ…if these idiots at Politico were thrown out of a bar for being rowdy asshats, they’d prop their elbows on the edge of the gutter and yell at the bouncer: “Yo… Man…I was gonna leave anyway!”
Mnemosyne
@geg6:
That’s my suspicion, too. If you’re only sticking around because you don’t want it to look like you’re bowing to pressure from a harridan like Quinn, of course you’re going to bolt the instant Quinn shoots herself in the foot.
Nellcote
I’m very sad that Ms. Rogers has decided to leave. I think she’s done a wonderful job. Bringing the NOLA brass band in for the Halloween fest is a personal favorite as well as the music nights at the White House.
Ruckus
@soonergrunt:
Thanks!
I don’t read BooB because, well let’s just say I have standards. They are bottom of the Mariana Trench level standards but there you go.
ruemara
@Zifnab25:
How do you know the White House was bowing to anyone on this? As a person, she could be on the last nerve of dealing with bullshit & moving on out.
cat48
A guest editorial is in order.
Nellcote
@ruemara:
Indeed. I wonder if any other Wh Social Secretary has had to deal with racist death threats.
Bill H
And for some reason. Hardball spent as much time discussing this as they did discussing health care reform.