Is it normal for so many members in an Admin.'s cabinet to resign?

[New Earth]

I haven't followed politics for as long or as closely as some other people here.

You see all the members of Bush's cabinet resigning, one right after the other. Is this normal for a 'second term' President?

[sepia_steel]

1. kick

I'm curious about this, too.

[Quakerfriend]

2. pretty normal

from what I've seen. Clinton had big turnover btw. I and II.

[dzika]

4. normal but

I don't remember Clinton announcing the new members of his cabinet so soon after the election.

[RobertSeattle]

9. Clinton Cabinet 1996-1997

Nice consise display (have to go down under to get it!)

http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/clinton/cabinet.shtml

The thing I laugh at is all the fundies only 2 months ago saying "we can't change in the middle of a WAR"... What are they saying now? Chirp Chirp Crick Crick.

[onenote]

13. no more or less chaotic

than the changeover after other re-election campaigns. The following list of headlines from the 6 weeks or so after Clinton's re-election might be looked at as suggesting turmoil.

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/cabinet.shuffle/news.shtml

In fact, it was just standard operating procedure. In fact, if Chimpy was naming replacements quickly, he'd be criticized for indecision, etc.

onenote

[NJ_Lib]

3. They must know something we don't...

Or rather, what we know and can't prove... YET!

I guess for that statement to fly, it would mean that these people actually have a heart and a conscious...

Any other ideas?

[lthuedk]

5. Imagine an administration permanently cloaked with fraud.

I wouldn't want my child to know I was part of the dark and smelly.

[jamboi]

6. Yes, though its normally handled a LOT more smoothly. This way gives

you the feeling of crisis. Normally it more the question who if anyone will stay on, but everyone posts their resignation simultaneously and the pres. decides if s/he will keep anyone on.

[Scrooge]

7. WAR time

Clinton wasnt in the middle of a WAR like this creep is. You would think that the cabinet members would want to show their support. Unless of course they are totally UNSUPPORTIVE!! Noway would Clinton have lost all these people in the middle of a frikkin war. Bush just cant do anything right!

[Florida_Geek]

8. ALL repeat ALL Cabinet members submit letters of resignation

at the end of ALL Presidents terms. That is protocol. Some are accepted and some the people did not want to leave.

[napi21]

10. I think it's pretty normal.

There were very few terminations or resignations during his 1st 4 years which is quite unusual. I don't think there have been any real surprises in the current resignations, and all these jobs are really very stressful. Four years is ENOUGH!

[Generator]

11. Normal?????????

We don't need no stinkin normal.

From 9/11-oh yeah that happens ALL the time-to War's on false pretenses (hey at least Vietnam was about defeating Commies, they never said it was to stop them from dropping a nuclear bomb on us)-to the Election of 2000-to the unrelenting propaganda of our media-nothing has been normal for awhile.

It all stinks like a bad dream. When is it ending? When oh when. I had November 2nd pegged-but the nightmare just continued.

[NY lib NY]

12. Normal

I think Clinton lost like 10.