Cartoons of the Week: January 19-25

The change always make things difficult for the new comers but here we go President Obamashook up his White House staff on Friday, installing a new team largely made up of familiar faces moved to different positions as he gears up for an intense push on sweeping legislation early in his second term. Mr Obama namedDenis R. McDonough, a long time aide and currently the principal deputy national security adviser, as his new White House chief of staff, and shuffled around a series of other officials in the West Wing. “I have been counting on Denis for nearly a decade,” Mr. Obama said in announcing the appointment in the East Room, flanked by Mr. McDonough and the departing chief of staff, Jacob J. Lew, the nominee for Treasury secretary. “I relied on his intellect and good judgment, and that has continued ever since.” The president called Mr McDonough “one of my closest friends” and an “indispensable member of my national security team” who has been central to every major foreign policy decision of the past four years, including the troop withdrawal from Iraq, the response to the earthquake in Haiti and the lifting of limits on service in the military by openly gay people. Mr McDonough, 43, has been in the president’s most inner circle, with influence that belied his title. Whenever he has advocated a position, other officials have understood that he is almost certainly channelling Mr Obama, and no one is a fiercer defender of the president. Mr McDonough at times has left bruised feelings among officials elsewhere in the administration, particularly in the Pentagon and the State Department, where some as a brusque enforcer views him. But he is enormously popular within the West Wing, where his loyalty and work ethic are highly valued. His ascension was greeted by warm applause from his colleagues in the East Room on Friday, and the president poked fun at his round-the-clock work habits. “I actually began to think Denis likes pulling all-nighters,” he said. “The truth is nobody outworks Denis McDonough.” Moving up to deputy chief of staff will be Rob Nabors, currently the president’s legislative affairs chief, and replacing Mr McDonough at the National Security Council will be Tony Blinken, the national security adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director and another early Obama aide, will move up to senior adviser, replacingDavid Plouffe, who is departing this week. I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA this is from USA press