Posted on 04/25/2006 6:01:50 PM PDT by Danae
Alan of all people announces that Tony will be the next Press Sec, announcment from the White House will happen tomorrow morning!
Playpen would be more appropriate.
:-) I miss you too, RasterMaster! I miss Tony, I miss the Thread, but I am very very happy for Tony and the President.
LOL! I can't help it. I am still a Snowflake and a Bushbot
I am fading fast. I will check in on the live thread tomorrow. Good night!
Nite all!
Me too.
We'll call it the bunny slope.
Night.
Night Ras.
:-) Even the snow hares are Snowflakes!
Prayers in overdrive.
Good night, AliVeritas!
If you post a transcript and/or link to the Jed Babbin interview on Batchelor tonight, could you ping me? I'd love to read it. If you think of it.
Thanks for holding up the snow ball.
I had a feeling that something would come up this evening.
I'm still going to post the main thread for the remainder of the week, then we can decide what to do.
Here’s some of what Tony Snow has said about the President:
– Bush has “lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc.” [3/17/06]
– “George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion.” [3/17/06]
– “President Bush distilled the essence of his presidency in this year’s State of the Union Address: brilliant foreign policy and listless domestic policy.” [2/3/06]
– “George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.” [11/11/05]
– Bush “has a habit of singing from the Political Correctness hymnal.” [10/7/05]
– “No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.” [9/30/05]
– Bush “has given the impression that [he] is more eager to please than lead, and that political opponents can get their way if they simply dig in their heels and behave like petulant trust-fund brats, demanding money and favor — now!” [9/30/05]
– “When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can’t say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn’t seem to mean what he says.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]
– “The president doesn’t seem to give a rip about spending restraint.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]
– “Bush, for all his personal appeal, ultimately bolstered his detractors’ claims that he didn’t have the drive and work ethic to succeed.” [11/16/00]
– “Little in the character of demeanor of Al Gore or George Bush makes us say to ourselves: Now, this man is truly special! Little in our present peace and prosperity impels us to say: Give us a great man!” [8/25/00]
– “George W. Bush, meanwhile, talks of a pillowy America, full of niceness and goodwill. Bush has inherited his mother’s attractive feistiness, but he also got his father’s syntax. At one point last week, he stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words, like a soul tortured with Tourette’s.” [8/25/00]
– “He recently tried to dazzle reporters by discussing the vagaries of Congressional Budget Office economic forecasts, but his recitation of numbers proved so bewildering that not even his aides could produce a comprehensible translation. The English Language has become a minefield for the man, whose malaprops make him the political heir not of Ronald Reagan, but Norm Crosby.” [8/25/00]
– “On the policy side, he has become a classical dime-store Democrat. He gladly will shovel money into programs that enjoy undeserved prestige, such as Head Start. He seems to consider it mean-spirited to shut down programs that rip-off taxpayers and mislead supposed beneficiaries.” [8/25/00]
Thanks for keeping the Tony show thread, dinasour.
I just got word from kirstann, I'm on for Saturday.
The only question is will Tony be there?
Tony is, and has always been, worth extra effort.
Regardless of complications that have arisen from his new gig, he is still the same Tony.
Sigh. All good things must come to an end.
But most endings are also just new beginnings.
:-) He will do an outstanding job. And although he said on the Fox site that he doesn't know what his landing pad will be like when his position is up, he knows and Fox knows that he has an instant audience.
We will miss him (some of us already do) but I think that the Press briefings will have a completely different tone, going forward.
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