Parody
Parody Karen Hughes didn't like what she was hearing. Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House...
...disaster...
...Hughes jumped into the fray...
...presidential adviser Karl Rove chimed in, "Straw...
...President, we really have to pay attention to Jim Jeffords...
...Bush had to be for the people, not the HMOs...
...I'm sensing electrical heart malfunctions...
...I'm afraid he might switch parties," she warned...
...There can be no leaking against other Bush aides...
...i've got Jeffords in my back pocket," this official remembers Calio saying...
...She is omniscient and all powerful," says Dan Bartlett, the deputy communications director...
...Yes...
...The important thing, administration officials all agree, is that everybody on the team must stick together...
...Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights...
...And our reconnaissance flights over the Chinese coast...
...Some in the administration have begun to notice her brilliance...
...They're clueless...
...Also, have you been watching Dick Cheney recently...
...i can't tell you how much i admire Nick," she says of the legislative director Calio...
...Once we say veto," she replied, "that's all anyone's going to hear...
...i can't tell you what a devastating blow it would be to this administration some reporter were to double check his finan cial disclosure form—especially where he lists his stock holdings—and Nick were forced to resign in disgrace...
...We would never do that," Hughes and her staff emphasize in her daily phone calls to Time...
...Sitting in the Oval Office, legislative affairs director Nick Calio was telling the president that when the Big Bad Wolf comes to town, it is best to have a house built out of straw...
...A senior White House official with longstanding ties to Bush in Austin recalls the time Hughes marched into the Oval Office on the second day of the administration.^ "Mr...
...This will hurt us," she warned...
...1 ask you, has any of them spent a single day in his life working as a TV reporter...
...The rest of them are just turd brains...
...To Hughes—the counselor responsible for the words Bush says and the image he presents— promising to veto a popular bill was sure to be a p.r...
...Hughes, a statuesque natural blonde with an incisive mind yet a subtle manner, jumped into the fray...
...Sadly, this official remembers, some of the male members discounted Hughes's advice...
...But Hughes, tall and stately, with the regal bearing of a Grace Kelly, has remained steadfastly loyal to her less competent colleagues...
...Covered with plenty of petroleum-based waterproofing...
...Jeffords...
...He'll huff and he'll puff and he'll blow that house down," she warned, arguing for the brick option...
...Time, July 1, 2001 NATION Karen Hughes Knows Best BY JAY CARNEY KAREN HUGHES DIDN'T LIKE WHAT SHE was hearing...
...Really slathered in the stuff...
...Karen] gets it," one top Bush communications official said after the president had sided with Calio and Rove at the meeting...
...those could lead to trouble if we're not careful...
...Everything she has predicted has come to pass...
...He might need to have a device implanted before long...
Vol. 6 • July 2001 • No. 41
