Dan Bartlett Resigns

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6712377.stm

Dan Bartlett Resigned from his post as Counselor to the President, in charge of the Communications, Media Affairs, Speechwriting, and Press Offices. Pretty Big Position. The reason given was to spend more time with his family and work in the private sector (basically work for more money). I do not blame him for wanting to do either of those things, as I am sure everyone can say working in the White House must have been a very demanding job.
But the timimng of this doesn't surprsie me. With only a little under 600 days left in the Presdient's Term, it is going to be hard to justify staying and working for the President. With every passing day the President is under more criticism for Iraq and everything he has done wrong so far in his presidency. Plus, the Presidential Primary Season is starting to get a lot of media coveage. The President is, and will start to get, more and more irrelevant. When the latest polls have you at 30 percent approval ratingl and 63 percent unapproval, you know you have a serious problem.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first of a few high-profile, or maybe not so high-profile, people leaving the White House in the few months to come. The time to leave with at least some moderate respect is now.