Showing posts with label Snow (Tony). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snow (Tony). Show all posts

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Tony Snow RIP

The Republicans lose their best guy, bar none.
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow -- who once told reporters "I'm a very lucky guy" -- has died at the age of 53 after a second battle with cancer.

Snow, who had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for a recurrence of the disease, left his White House job September 14, 2007, and joined CNN in April as a conservative commentator.

In parting comments to reporters at his final White House news conference, he said, "I feel great."

He also called the job "the most fun I've ever had."

Snow said he was leaving the White House position to make more money. His White House salary was $168,000.



Tony Snow was their most effective communicator. RIP, Mr. Snow.

--WS

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

A Perfect Specimen of Stubborn

The Useless Toll™ is in Kansas today – and Tony Snow took the opportunity to bluster and blow about the next Iraq funding bill that is being hammered out in the House of Representatives right now, and threaten another veto. You know, because the last one was so successful...

While White House officials have previously made clear their displeasure about the new House bill, this is the first time any administration official threatened another veto. House leaders said there could be a vote as early as this week on the new measure.

Snow expressed hope that the administration and Congress could still work out a deal, noting that Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten was supposed to meet Wednesday with Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.)

aWol needs to realize that he ain’t getting his way here. His day is done and we are not going to let our congress back down to his punk ass on this. Every bill he gets needs to be taking something away from him and applying stronger benchmarks and shorter timelines. Fuck him. The arrogant, hubris-driven intellectually incurious, mentally defective, amoral toad needs dealt with. We elected this cast and crew to put his poisonous ass in a bell jar. The sooner that reality sinks in across the board, the better off we'll all be.

The Constitution sets my bearing in the first three words: It is We, the People, asshole – and when we get cranky about illegal wars and stuff, we can be a right pain. Shoulda realized that it’s never a good idea to whack a hornets nest, and it’s just flat-out stupid to poke the bear at the same damned time. But that’s exactly what the stupid sumbitch did. So constrain him by any means necessary.

Yeah, George. Veto another one. I double dog dare you to keep vetoing. For the love of Harry Truman, veto, veto, veto. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Please veto these bills.

In fact, I think for the next one, he should fly to a carrier and do it on the flight deck. I'll kick in ten bucks for the banner.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

A bit of decorum, please...

Let's have a moment of reflection and send White House press secretary Tony Snow our best wishes.

He was treated for colon cancer two years ago, and yesterday had surgery to remove a suspicious mass in his pelvic area. It was malignant and the cancer has spread to his liver. That is a very grim diagnosis.

Whatever I think of someones politics is irrelevant when a diagnosis like that is made.