Whitehouse Budget Director gone
Rob Portman is leaving the administration, claiming that he wants to spend more time with his family. He’s been in the administration for two years but was in the House for twelve years before that; he says that his family stayed in Cincinnati and he wasn’t seeing enough of them; although he didn’t see that much of them when he was in the House, either, he says that enough is enough. I tend to suspect (admittedly based on no actual, you know, evidence) that he’d have stayed if the administration wasn’t tanking in the polls and achieving relatively little. There’s not much incentive to hang on other than loyalty and the warm glow that comes from working for the elected government (much in evidence at any DMV, just look real close).