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Here’s the Bet

I’m no bookie and you can only make real odds if there’s money involved, but here’s the bet:

One of the Inner Circle of advisors will resign by Valentine’s Day.  Which one?

  1. Ax.
  2. F-Rahm®.
  3. Jarrett.
  4. Gibbs.
  5. Geithner/Summers
  6. Rogers.
  7. Rice.
  8. Bo.

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.

Comments 12

  1. CK MacLeod wrote:

    Not that it’s my bet, but we need a none of the above option.

    “Bo” made me laugh out loud, but I’m not convinced he’s in the inner circle. Plus I hear he’s in the running to replace Gibbs.

    January 24th, 2010 at 8:49 am

  2. CK MacLeod wrote:

    The pack may yet bring down Blair, and it wouldn’t take more than a drip of blood in the water to build a frenzy around Holder. If the SOTU and associated offensives flop, sacrifices will be demanded.



    January 24th, 2010 at 10:37 am

  3. narciso wrote:

    Still keeping with the James Cameron metaphors CK, (technically it was Piranha 2), Holder would seem a more likely choice as so many
    things could be flagged to him, as for his staff, like Rahmbo, not till November I don’t think

    January 24th, 2010 at 10:43 am

  4. Zoltan Newberry wrote:

    I don’t know who Rice is, but the truly urgent question is:

    Can the Republicans gather enough focus and energy brought to them by both Brown and the tea parties to energize an overwhelming number of voters by November?

    It is far to early to celebrate and wonder who will be the first to depart. These people are fighters, they are all on the same page, so none of them may go.

    I worry if there are a sufficient number of fighters on the other side, our side. I think the Republican elders like Hatch and Lott need to step aside while the young turks such as Bachmann, Cantor and Ryan amplify a message of prosperity through growth and security. The message should be zero earmarks, less government and lower taxes. On terrorism, they must repeat Bush’s with us or against us clarity, and, this time, it must include the Egyptians and Saudis.

    January 24th, 2010 at 11:24 am

  5. CK MacLeod wrote:

    @ narciso:
    Following the Bush example, they may not want to risk looking like they’re panicking until after they’ve had their derrieres handed to them in the mid-terms, assuming that’s what happens (the aliens may land on the WH lawn between now and November, creating a rally round the more-or-less human leader effect).

    (As for Cameron – yes, he did Piranha 2 – a film that I somehow neglected to mention when I was listing his tippy-top productions, but the image above really does come from the 1-sheet for KILLER FISH, which I guess you’d have to call a rip-off of PIRANHA, which was itself kind of a rip-off of JAWS, though with a pretty good cast relatively speaking. You can admire the 1-sheet in all its splendor at http://ckmac.com/images/r800/r823-02b.jpg )

    January 24th, 2010 at 11:32 am

  6. CK MacLeod wrote:

    Zoltan Newberry wrote:

    I don’t know who Rice is

    Susan Rice. As far as I can tell, she’s been doing an admirable job of keeping her head down and out of the news. Did I miss something?

    January 24th, 2010 at 12:08 pm

  7. Zoltan Newberry wrote:

    Speaking of rice, where is Condi?

    It’s far TOO early for her to disappear.

    Not with Mister Peanut I hope.

    January 24th, 2010 at 12:17 pm

  8. CK MacLeod wrote:

    Condi’s at Stanford, and the Hoover Institution – a good place for her. Apparently, she lacks a taste for political campaigning, but, even if she was interested, I suspect the Bush association would kill her in a state like Cali.

    January 24th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

  9. Zoltan Newberry wrote:

    Speaking of Cali, Can Meg beat Jerry?

    January 24th, 2010 at 12:29 pm

  10. CK MacLeod wrote:

    Zoltan Newberry wrote:

    Speaking of Cali, Can Meg beat Jerry?

    All things are possible in this best of all possible worlds.

    The thing about Jerry is that he’s a bit nuts and owes all sorts of chits to the left, but he presents as forceful and incorruptible, as willing to think “outside the box,” and as a product of a much better era in this state than the current one. As a past governer from long before our current time of troubles, he might appeal further as a known quantity (even if that quantity is… Jerry Brown). Onthotherhand, Meg should be perfect for the state at this conjuncture, and could present a much more hopeful and positive, yet also competent tone on the issues that matter most.

    And she won’t lack for campaign funds.

    January 24th, 2010 at 12:35 pm

  11. JEM wrote:

    Geithner.

    January 24th, 2010 at 3:10 pm

  12. Barbara wrote:

    I deliberately left off Holder because I may erroneously have him pegged as not an “inner circle” type.

    Susan Rice has kept out of the news by going to every party, including most of the Xmas parties at the WH, and having the biggest staff ever for a US ambassador to the UN. In other words, if you think our UN ambassador should not be in the news when Iran is going nuclear and killing its own citizens in the streets, when Chavez says outrageous things about the US at the UN, and the Security Council is bagging out on everything, well, the Rice is your gal.

    Thanks, JEM, for staying on point, though I think Holder will have a shortened tenure, I don’t think anyone from the inner circle is going before F-Rahm® heads to Chi-town to run for mayor, taking Desiree with him. (Sometime after Easter.)

    January 24th, 2010 at 4:06 pm

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