White House Taps Former Bush Official for Housing Post

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7. My guess:

A former Bush goon is much more likely to get the nod from Republican Senators. If they continue to oppose the nomination, that works for the President, by sowing internal dissent in the GOP and forcing Republican lobbyists to fight it out with one another.

If the guy doesn't pass the nomination process, that person is effectively denied any chance of a future nomination (because Democratic Senators won't forget and will hold up any future nominations), so his potential usefulness is denied to Jeb Bush at no cost to President Obama.

If the former Bush goon does win the nomination, then the guy gets to sit down with the President's people, where they are going to present the goon with a large empty binder, point out that it should have been filled with the documentation from his previous tenure during the Bush years, that it's a violation of the NARA Act to have failed to do so, and that if the sonofabitch doesn't do exactly what the President tells him to do, that person will be burned at the stake for it.

If the Bush goon doesn't bust his ass to repair the damage he caused, he'll be gone the next day, wide-open to charges from his annoyed employer, and the resulting scandal will do at least as much damage to Republicans as it will to the President himself--who doesn't care anyway because he's a lame duck.

Either way, the Bush goon is President Obama's bitch, yet another Republican tool that the President has picked up and used to bludgeon the Republican Party.