Top aides continue to exit, adds to the agony of Bush Administration

After a long debate in the US Senate Bush administration may have succeeded in passing the war-funding bill, and that too without the deadline for the troop withdrawal from Iraq, but the White House has just failed to keep its tops aides intact only when less than 20 month have left for the completion of the second tenure. In the past six months, Bush administration has been suffering from the departure of the top aides, possibly the highest since he took over the White House. About 20 senior advisers have either completed their tenure or resigned from key posts at the White House, Pentagon and State Department after resentment grows among people home and abroad over mishandling of the war in Iraq. Sara M. Taylor, the White House political director and microtargeting expert, is the latest top Bush aide to leave the Bush administration in recent past after deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch II, who stated to quit earlier this month. The deputy national security adviser Meghan O’Sullivan who supervised the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was the next to follow Crouch II and exit post. On the other, Taylor seems too despondent to tie up with any probable of the forthcoming presidential elections, as she said that she is too resolute not to employ with any of the 2008 presidential candidates, at any cost. Taylor asserted, I have avoided all temptations to go back into the campaign. I’ve done three presidentials; I think that is enough. Taylor’s exit has caused a big loss for Bush administration as she was not only one of the foremost to put on the payroll of the Bush campaign, but she has been with George W. Bush from the beginning of his first presidential campaign. Rove, Bush’s chief political strategist, asserted, She did a very superb job in every role she has been called on. It is a big loss for us. With increasing pressure from the Democrat-controlled Congress over different issues, especially war on Iraq, the remaining term, without the assistance of top aids, doesn’t look a bed of roses for the Bush administration.