According to President Barack Hussein Obama’s (mm mmm mmmm) new Chief of Staff, Bill Daley, rumors that he urged Scooter to give Press Secretary Robert (Baghdad Bob) Gibbs the boot from the White House are completely false.

The London Telegraph ran a blog post, linked on the Drudge Report, which referred to a CNN report which said that Daley did not want Gibbs to stay in the White House as a chief adviser.

However, according to a statement released by Daley, Gibbs’s name

…never, ever came up once in any discussion I had with the president or staff about me coming to the White House.

In my view, he has done a great job as press secretary for President Obama, and I look forward to working with him as he continues to help provide advice to the president and our team over the next two years.

Baghdad Bob announced earlier this week that he is stepping down from the podium sometime in February, but he will continue to advise, advocate, and generally be his same ol’ blindly sycophantic self for Obama.

Gibbsy is not the only one that is having trouble with Daley:

Per politico.com, Scooter’s choice of William Daley to be his new chief of staff has the Far Left ideologues whining like they’ve just heard a Rush Limbaugh monologue.  AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka voiced his reservations about Daley:

The president is of course entitled to choose a chief of staff in whom he has complete confidence. We are hopeful that the new chief of staff’s priority is to achieve the strong economy that working people desperately need.

MoveOn.org chief Justin Ruben wasn’t too thrilled, either:

The announcement that William Daley, who has close ties to the Big Banks and Big Business, will now lead the White House staff is troubling and sends the wrong message to the American people.

However, at least some in the Far Left seem to be resigned to the appointment. Neera Tanden, CEO for the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, and until recently, a senior advisor for health reform inside the Obama White House, said:

There’s a recognition that the president determines his agenda.

The Far Left had better recognize that Obama is loyal to no one except himself and his political cronies from Chicago. And he’ll throw them under the bus, too, without a second thought.

Let’s look at the case of Baghdad Bob Gibbs. 

Do any of you actually believe that Gibbs is stepping down of his own accord?  If you do, I have some commemorative Elvis plates, that the King once ate a peanut butter and ‘nanner sandwich off of, to sell you.

Gibbs style as Press Secretary has been about as soothing as a Gilbert Gottfried monologue.  He’s been abrasive, condescending, and elusive in his answers to simple questions put forth to him by the press.  He has done a horrible job in a position once handled so well by the late, great Tony Snow.

Obama cannot afford to have such a buffoon speaking to the press for him, if he is going to run for a second term.  And I’m sure that William Daley relayed that vital piece of information to him.

Just like Rahmbo before him, Bill Daley knows how to play the game of Chicago-style, cutthroat politics.  The problem is, I’m afraid that ol’ Billy Boy will find himself in the same position that Emmanuel did, surrounded by Far Left bureaucratic and academic pinheads, who are not driven by party loyalty and political necessity, but rather, by an Uber-Liberal ideology and an overwhelming desire to turn America into a Socialist Paradise. 

Scooter learned about Chicago-style politics in 1992, when he went to work for Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a firm specializing in civil rights law and other forms of public advocacy.   Working there provided him with the opportunity to make many contacts in the Chicago Political Machine.   And, of course, the Daley family was a very essential part of that machine.

In fact, according to Lee Cary, in his article posted at americanthinker.com, the Daleys, Tony Rezko, and Obama’s BFF, Valerie Jarrett, had quite a lucrative partnership  with that law firm after Scooter became a Illinois State Senator:

In 1997, [Obama’s former law firm mentor Allison] Davis and Rezko formed New Kenwood L.L.C. and set out to build a seven-story apartment building for seniors called Cottage View Terrace. At the time, Davis was a member of the Chicago Plan Commission, having been appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley, Richard the 2nd.

Several local elected officials, representing both city and state, wrote letters-of-support citing the need for senior citizen housing. State Senator Obama’s letter was dated October 28, 1998. He still worked as an attorney at Davis’ former firm, renamed Miner Barnhill & Galland. (Judson H. Miner had been Corporate Counsel for the City of Chicago from 1986-1989.) The firm’s clients included companies owned by Davis and Rezko.

New Kenwood L.L.C. hired the law firm of Daley & George –the Daley being the current Mayor Daley’s brother, Michael Daley — to assist in securing city-of-Chicago issued bonds. (Brother Michael is not to be confused with brother John Daley, the Cook County Board finance committee chairman and 11th Ward committeeman. Or, brother William “Bill,” Daley, who [at the time of this article] is contemplating a run for Illinois governor.)

The city owned the two-acre vacant lot targeted for the proposed project. It had once been the site of a gas station and needed an environmental cleanup. Davis and Rezko bought the land for $1, and spent $100,000 for the cleanup.

Here’s what the Chicago Sun Times (June 13, 2007) reported about the project:

“The $14.6 million Cottage View Terrace was funded entirely by city, state and federal taxpayers. The projected included $855,000 in development fees for New Kenwood…In addition to the development fees, a separate Davis-owned company stood to make another $900,000 through federal tax credits.”

In conclusion, the appointment of William Daley, while meant to portray Obama as moving to the middle, is, in reality, nothing more than a continuation of Chicago-style politics at the White House.

Nothing to see here…move along.