BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House

Subject: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 01:33 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush announced Friday that press secretary Tony Snow, who has waged a battle with cancer while manning the White House lectern, will resign and be replaced by his deputy, Dana Perino, on Sept. 14.

"It's been joy to watch him spar with you," Bush told the White House press corps in the briefing room.

Snow, who had said recently that he would leave before the end of Bush's presidency, said cancer was not the reason he was stepping down. Instead, the father of three said he needs to make more than his White House salary of $168,000. He can earn far more money on the speechmaking circuit.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 03:04 PM

Now O'Reilly may finally get his chance.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 03:06 PM

I am sure he can earn more making speeches....and it's easier than standing at the podium, trying to concoct disclaimers for the latest White House gaff.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 03:09 PM

It would be tough trying to scrape by on $168,000 a year.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: John Hardly
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 03:22 PM

"It would be tough trying to scrape by on $168,000 a year."

Especially if you have a wife and young children and a pre-existing condition that might keep you from getting life insurance...


...and you know you're dying.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: jeffp
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 03:37 PM

A lot of people do it on a lot less.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Slag
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 03:39 PM

God bless Tony Snow, a good man. I wouldn't have taken THAT job for anything. Yes he is conservative but both sides could see him foundering while trying to spin for some of Bush's better blunders. Painful. Add chemotherapy and the pain was just too great to bear.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 03:40 PM

I never fault a person for making a living. He gets what the market bears, which all of us should do. I won't criticize someone for making too much money if someone is willing to pay them.

Frankly, I am surprised the the job paid that much. Where does the money come from? Government job?

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 04:13 PM

Presidential Office budget, I imagine.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 05:18 PM

Yet another rat leaving the ship (since he said it isn't the cancer....)?

How many rats does Bush have left? Too many.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 05:33 PM

I'll say this for him...the guy was GOOD at what he did. He did the job with humor and (usually) grace and aplomb. I hope he does well.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 05:54 PM

Ah, they're droppin' like flies.
It should be fun to watch the carnage as it happens over the next year. Bush and Cheney may be the only ones left by next August. Everyone else will be on corporate boards...
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Greg F.
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 10:35 PM

HEY! Give the poor rats a break, Sorcha. No self-respecting rat would associate with the likes of Bush & Co.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 11:25 PM

Apparently, he needs more time to "hug the tarbaby"

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 11:57 PM

Politics aside, cancer is scary. Fighting it in such a public way is tough. He has a family and he probably is trying to provide a nest egg of some sort for them. I read some time back that he wasn't going to stay till the end of the term, that he'd leave when he ran out of money. D.C. is an expensive place to live, too. Lots working against him.

Where are James Carville and Mary Matalin when you need them? It is possible to set aside politics and see the person. Sometimes. I don't manage very often with Dubya, and never with Rove, but Snow has plenty of humanity that peeks through.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 01 Sep 07 - 01:02 AM

I agree with ya 100% SRS ... good post.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Snow Resigns From White House
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Sep 07 - 05:34 AM

Yeah, SRS, I read a bit about Tony Snow today and I wish I could take back my previous post. Many in the Bush Administration deserve the ridicule they get here, but perhaps not Tony Snow.
I wish him well.
...but I'll still be glad when Bush and his minions are gone.
-Joe-