Bush Homeland Security Adviser Fran Townsend Stepping Down
By Logan Murphy Sunday Nov 18, 2007 11:45am
(Not hinting as to where she'll end up. No siree.) AP via Yahoo:
Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism adviser who gave public updates on the extent of the threat to U.S. security, is stepping down after 4 1/2 years.
President Bush said in a statement Monday morning that Townsend, 45, "has ably guided the Homeland Security Council. She has played an integral role in the formation of the key strategies and policies my administration has used to combat terror and protect Americans."
In her resignation to Bush, Townsend indicating she was returning to the private sector, saying in a handwritten letter, "As you know, it is with a profound sense of gratitude that I have decided to take a respite from public service." Read on...
One has to wonder, is she going broke like former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow? Or is Townsend simply following other Bush administration officials like Turdblossom and Dan Bartlett, who saw the writing on the wall and figured they'd get while the getting is good?
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She's found a much more respectable position
Pole dancing.
President Bush said in a statement Monday morning that Townsend, 45, “has ably guided the Homeland Security Council. She has played an integral role in the formation of the key strategies and policies my administration has used to combat terror and protect Americans.”
In others words, another "Good Job Brownie" person.
And what was her military record that helped qualify her for this strategic job?
Since she's stepping down without giving a standard reason, such as spending more time with family or needs more Republican dollars, it's safe to assume that she's quitting on her own.
Another RAT jumping ship.
Lollimom @ 3:
herr dubyah looked into her soul and saw she was a good person.....isn't that enough qualification for you libruls?!!?
She's probably not going broke like Tony Snow was.
I'm just surprised Snow admitted the Bush Administration doesn't pay much to schill their policies.
Dr. Matt @ 6:
How about her police background, if she didn't have a military background?
Was she a school Safety in 6th grade, possibly? Anything?
"Fran will save Brian and the Judge's next Arbitron book"-Roger Ailes as he pencils in Fran for Fox News Radio
It is just too hard to walk around for 4-1/2 years carrying a dead elephant without the smell ruining you forever.
I think she might have a bright future in mature porn.
is this not the same individual, when asked if the surge was a failure, countered wtih the brilliant,"no, i'd call it a success that just hasn't happened yet!"
Lollimom @ 8:
She has a good soul! Enough said....
I'm anticipating a related late-Friday (during the holiday) press release detailing some major screw-up or investigation of her office. That would be SOP.
Dr. Matt @ 13:
Bill O'Hart @ 2:
IIRC, it was a "heckuva" job. ;-)
What's the going rate for Used Conservative Blonds these days?
“As you know, it is with a profound sense of gratitude that I have decided to take a respite from public service.”
I'd have a profound sense of gratitude too if I could quit my job.... (just kidding).
They know the fall of America is coming. This is why they're all quitting, trading dollars for Euro's and bying property in other countries.
"Townsend has told colleagues she is looking for opportunities in the private sector"
Washington speak for: I can't take this sh*t anymore and I don't want to get burned out when this administration goes down the toilet, better leave now while I can".
Perhaps she was offered a better job selling Mary Kay cosmetics?
She looks like a Fran.
She's been as useless as the rest of them.
Ahhhh, she is going to "spend more time with her family"
They never stand up, they only step down.
I wonder if there's some scandal about her that will break any day now. She seemed rather comfortable as a lying fembushbot like Dana Perino. Maybe we're going to find out her resume, such as it is, is fake.
MILF, well maybe.
Blonde and conservative. How long before she gets an offer from Faux Noise? Or maybe she could pretty up the advisory board for Blackwater in place of "Buzzy" Krongard. Or is it "Cookie"? Either way, she's got a gig with some fascist corporation just waiting for her.
Another blonde airhead takes a hike after making money off us taxpayers for 4 and a half years.. Yea, really profound lady.... (yawn), don't let the door etc etc.......Maybe Faux will hire you to be a talking wonk (eeech), I think you passed your sell by date for a gig at Hooters or the playboy club... Whatever you do, just please don't come to California looking for a gig at Sanford or Berkeley or something, we already got enough rigthwing tics infesting and trying to screw shit up out here as it is.....JD
LittleD @ 12:
I have to correct you on this one my friend, but the above response was with regard to capturing Osama Bin Laden.
Bill @ 27:
My god, your bar is set really low. ;)
Ol' Fran came from the Coast Guard, via a stint in the New York District Attorney's office: Official White House bio.
ysbaddaden @ 1:
LOL, thanks I needed that.
"...it is with a profound sense of gratitude that I have decided to take a respite from public service."
As in, "Thank fuck that's over."
Mark @ 17:
Used Conservative Blonds = two bit prostitutes
worth two bits
She'll end up wherever a "Nurse Ratchet" bush bootlick is needed. Old fascist bobbleheads dont fade away, they just change their makeup.
Da Spyda @ 32:
If, however, as anticipated, she goes to work for Faux Noise, she'll become
a "poll dancer"
Biggus Diggus @ 26:
Hummm…interesting?
Bush noted in his statement that Townsend prosecuted violent crimes, narcotics offenses, Mafia cases and white-collar fraud as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y. and as an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan.
From Wikipedia,
Townsend began her prosecutorial career in 1985, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. In 1988, she joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York where she focused on international organized crime and white-collar crime cases.
Also from Wikipedia,
A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a socially liberal Republican from the 1980s to present, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney.
Connection? Just Wondering.
after fighting the war on terrorism from a plush d.c. location, she has decided it is time to join the fight and will be signing up for active duty service. or maybe she will just get on the board of black(mark)water.
Blackwater's got at least one position open.
Leatherface did her part in damaging this country. Now, she take a walk off a short pier.
xenon @ 22:
I knew Fran, I've worked with Fran, and you ma'am are no Fran.
http://www.sandamianline.com/staging/001/usa/uploads/fran_drescher_faq.jpg
I just didn't know her Biblically
Damn!
Every rethug that steps down probably gets a new name in witness protection program, and we who speak out agaisnt the 4th reigt can not even get a passport to leave the country.
They can resign all they want to, but it won't change the fact that there is a special place reserved in HELL for them.
Bill @ 27:
A good friend of mine is an Army nurse at Walter Reed and has actually met her. He said she was actually a very nice person.
moonsha @ 43:
Working at Walmart?
oh great, i guess that means that she'll try to restart her colony in my kitchen's baseboard again... *sighs*
time to call the orkin army, seems i am going to have a little townsend infestation. roach traps just don't seem to work, it takes industrial pesticides to get rid of her and her brood
APEC not OPEC @ 37:
Sounds like she worked under Rudy in more ways than one.
44 Dr. Matt Says:
hmm, i am sure dr mengele's neighbors mentioned how polite he was and how well he kept his lawn.
just sayin'
Is it too much to hope that Bush himself will resign before the end of the term?
I thought all the resignations were supposed to be submitted prior to last Labor Day. Anyway, last one out, shut off the lights.
Dr. Matt @ 44:
So what? She still did her part in damaging this country and should be shunned by society
Mark @ 17:
From the department of redundancy department?
She's going to the Giuliani campaign.
Being in Homeland Security, the paranoia of everyone out to get the US finally got to her. Every Bushwack in that administration must constantly be looking over their shoulder since EVERYTHING except a white Anglo Saxon human is a possible threat.
If anyone see's her on the street yell "Boo" and see how high she jumps.
sharkcellar @ 11:
Damn, right! I'd hit it.
NEXT!
Correction! Fran Townsend is NOT 'stepping down'.
She is 'stepping up'. No matter where she goes, from shoveling elephant plops to being a clown at the RNC, it's at least a step up from PR at DHS.
Unless, of course, she takes Perino's job. That would be a degrading, 'fall on your face', step down.
Oh no! What if the White House runs out of bottle-blond Barbies?! Oh, right. Phew! Dodged a bullet there...
Bill @ 27:
Eh, call it a MIWF. As in Would, but not sober and not my first choice.
What happened to the "If you stay past Labor Day you have to finish out the term" line the White House was using when Rove and Snow resigned?
absolutely the latter. or to "spend more time with her family."
I think the reason for her resignation has to do with Pakistan. Of all the Bushies to appear on TV, I thought she was the most forthright.
So which corporation is going to give her a job now... Halliburton, Blackwater, Exxon, BP...
DW @ 60:
Hooters...
MILFBCU?
All of these Bush cronies are the true meaning of
"CUT AND RUN" run, run, run as fast and far away from Bush as you can get.
The comments on this post are disappointing to me. Do any of you even know anything about Fran Townsend? She's going to work at Hooters? She's going to become a pole dancer? I feel like I'm at Little Green Footballs or something. Like Richard Clarke, Fran Townsend is a holdover from the Clinton Administration. She was Janet Reno's assistant. She has had a distinguished career, and, like Clarke, she made the difficult choice to stay in government under the Bush regime. She's not a bottle-blonde barbie. Sometimes people's careers take unexpected turns and they are forced to perform tasks more or less against their will.
They're all jumping ship-- which, I guess, is good. However, I also feel angry thinking they'll spend the rest of their days in "peace"; vanish into the sunset, ya know. Have we heard any more about Rove, or charges being laid? Nope. She was a huge defender of torture, and now she'll most likely be well rewarded. Sickening.
BDM @ 64:
64
BDM,
Franny Townsend tried to insult Osama bin Laden with that 1955-line about bin Laden being "virtually impotent." That's straight out of "Islam For Dummies," by John P. Normanson and Jonah Goldberg. That Franny was dumb enough to recite that line on Sunday Squawk Show after Sunday Squawk Show only indicates both the glaring lack of common sense in the Cheney White House and Franny's own pathetic willingness to bend her dignity and our nation to the wills of her masters for a Conservative gig down the line.
So one must wonder about the going rate for Used Conservative Blonds these days.
Fran if you want a back rub... some barry white, a good red to savor, call me...i will help you forget
BDM @ 64:
Well, I know this from her resignation letter and it ain't pretty:
"In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime.
Mr. President, you are such a man."
hope @ 68:
Yeah, I saw that, and I don't get it. But she also fought to save John O'Neil's job at the FBI and helped his career after he was forced out. She has also received Richard Clarke's praise, which holds a bit of water for me.
And Mark? At least now your criticism has some substance. I don't like some of the decisions she's made, but this simplistic nanny-nanny boo-boo crap is embarrassing.
How many Bush Loyalists left in Der Shrubya Bunker? He'll have the last laugh though when our world goes fully Strangelovian and he is there, ready to help repopulate the earth (heh-heh!)
"Condi! You can leave yer fancy shoes on. Fran, give Condi a big wet kiss. It will help the little Commander-in-Chief do his pReznitential duty (heh-heh! I said "doody"!)"
Uh...you guys are not paying attention. Townsend got booted out to make room for Julie Myers, who's suddenly in need of a (patronage) job.
When karl rove quit, we were told that those remaining in this administration had to decide to stay or leave by October. I gguess that rule has been changed.
Who is next?
ysbaddaden @ 1:
Damn. She can dance on my pole!
BDM @ 64:
Please, stop with the world's smallest violin.
Nobody is forcing her to do or say anything she doesn't believe in. She's a collaborator, like all the rest.
I don't know what would be worse, if she really believes in the garbage she's been spouting or if she was just doing it for the paycheck.
She has always seemed to me the typical Bush BS artist.
Very poor BS at that.
Considering her position, I think it's possible she thinks she's headed to prison if she sticks around for too long.
I felt SO MUCH SAFER when she was squating next to Dubya's WC holding the toilet paper.
Time to go cash in while the cashin in is still good. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Ho hum. Another scared rat flees the sinking S.S. bush to "spend time with her family" (do they know how we laugh when we hear that over and over?). Meanwhile, the captain praises her with the same empty words he uses to praise every other failed crony and wildly inappropriate appointee.
I've seen Townsend on TV many times. She. Is. Worthless.
No matter how many 'D.C. Madams' they bust, there's alway a new one in the pipeline.
Welcome, Fran, you sure have the experience at whoring.
She's probably got an attractive offer from Stormfront.
"I don’t like some of the decisions she’s made, but this simplistic nanny-nanny boo-boo crap is embarrassing."
no what is embarrassing is that this woman was there all along while the current administration did not capture or kill bin laden, redirected resources vital to the search for bin laden, did not find the anthrax terrorist, sold us a bill of goods for a misguided and harmful to our interest war, and continued to tell us the war was going well while the world knew differently. she not only deserves any score directed at her, she has worked hard to earn it. and i would suspect that she earned a somewhat handsome living all the while. sadly she will now go forth freely to earn an even larger living off of the devastation she helped bring to this country.
Perhaps she's stepping down because she got tired of going "down on her knees, eager to please"
"(KISS-- "Love in the First Degree").
I just know Faux Knews will hire her for her "ASSets"
She's still good looking enough. She could always take a position that's open with the big name rock n rollers.
Like KISS or Areosmith.
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