# Longtime Bush aide, friend leaving for private sector **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 1, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375 "2007-06-01T18:02:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/1 "2007-06-01T18:02:21Z")
It’s Dan Bartlett. Maybe the story’s true - leaving to spend more time with family - because he has 3-year old twin boys and another baby born in January. But if it isn’t true, Dubya’s lost a very close staffer. See the story at… [http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/01/bartlett.resign.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/01/bartlett.resign.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/2 "2007-06-01T18:08:08Z")
I’m not sure which thread is more of a non-debate… this one or the other one you started about what you heard on Olberman last night. Er… what’s the debate? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/3 "2007-06-01T18:16:34Z")
Silly! The debate is whether this should be in MPSIMS or not! ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/4 "2007-06-01T18:24:45Z")
Do you think his excuse for leaving is true? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/5 "2007-06-01T18:31:46Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] Do you think his excuse for leaving is true? [/QUOTE] Definitely MPSIMSish. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/6 "2007-06-01T18:32:21Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] Definitely MPSIMSish. [/QUOTE] No it’s not! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/7 "2007-06-01T19:25:35Z")
Look, I came in here for an argument. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/8 "2007-06-01T19:44:18Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Look, I came in here for an argument. [/QUOTE] You weren’t looking for the Department of Silly Walks? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/9 "2007-06-01T20:39:32Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] It’s Dan Bartlett. Maybe the story’s true - leaving to spend more time with family - because he has 3-year old twin boys and another baby born in January. But if it isn’t true, Dubya’s lost a very close staffer. See the story at… [http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/01/bartlett.resign.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/01/bartlett.resign.ap/index.html) [/QUOTE] He’s “lost a very close staffer” whether the reasons given are true or not. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/10 "2007-06-01T21:45:32Z")
In any event, Bartlett’s on Hardball tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/11 "2007-06-01T21:56:37Z")
No, he isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/12 "2007-06-01T21:59:54Z")
[QUOTE=Ravenman] No, he isn’t. [/QUOTE] Asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/13 "2007-06-01T22:09:34Z")
Reported. Anyway, there’s no way of knowing. Maybe he really wants to spend more time with family. Maybe he’s burnt out. Maybe he’s fed up with Bush. Maybe Bush is fed up with him. We’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/14 "2007-06-02T00:42:53Z")
My kids are pretty close to that age, and two of them are twins. There is no possible way I could take a White House job at any level given what is happening in my life right now. So I can see it. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longtime-bush-aide-friend-leaving-for-private-sector/406375/15 "2007-06-02T02:39:50Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] Asshole. [/QUOTE] I’m not quite sure why you felt the need to post this witty response, but this is a Warning that you are not to repeat this behavior in **Great Debates** or anywhere outside the \*\* BBQ Pit\*\*. [/Moderating]