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Financial pressures force Snow departure
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Posted on 08/17/2007 1:32:28 PM PDT by nuconvert

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To: nuconvert

So is he leaving because his $168,000 government salary will not be enough to pay for his medical care or future medical care? How often do we hear the dems say that we want the same medical care for each american that the govt employees get.


121 posted on 08/17/2007 6:55:45 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: nuconvert
So, he didn't know what the job paid when he took it? Yeah, right.

Here's a couple of ideas: (less likely)...he had a change of heart and is now actually refusing to shill for policies that aren't conservative. (more likely)...the successful defense of America against Bush's amnesty cost Snow his job because he was incapable of properly swaying the sheeple.
122 posted on 08/17/2007 6:56:49 PM PDT by Old_Mil (Fred Thompson isn't the second coming of Reagan; He's the second coming of Dole.)
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To: nuconvert
Maybe the hack Hannity will take the job. He's already sucking up to Giuliani for the position. In Hannity's mind Giuliani is the second coming. I can't help but think that if Snow does leave (which saddens me greatly) Hannity will be attached to Bush's rear like a leech to a bass.
123 posted on 08/17/2007 6:58:36 PM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter '08)
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To: gondramB
I think Tony just lied to us about his main motivation to leave.

I do too but maybe not for the reason you think. He is not looking well at all, he is losing weight and he is losing his hair and I think that he wants/needs to go home. I suspect the severity of his cancer has not been fully disclosed and he just wants to disappear without causing concern amongst his loyal fans..

One does not quit a job for financial reasons if they don't have another job lined up and if he had that job then he would have announced it.

My prayers go out to Tony and his family.......

124 posted on 08/17/2007 7:12:36 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Farewell Turd Blossom, ya done good!)
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To: montag813
Yep, and thanks to Tony's boss, many of them can and will lose their homes because Bush killed a medical exemption to his draconian banruptcy "reform" law.

You are a fool! Draconian bankruptcy reform? You must be an attorney, right?

125 posted on 08/17/2007 7:19:19 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Farewell Turd Blossom, ya done good!)
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To: nuconvert

He always has seemed uncomfortable in his role as White House spokesman...

I always felt that, as he was delibering the party line (which, of course, is his job to do), that he was always sort of winking at the irksome stuff....

...Like trying to justify Illegal immigration amnesty.....

It’ll be nice to hear him back on the outside.... hopefully he’ll go back on the air at FNC....


126 posted on 08/17/2007 7:19:39 PM PDT by seanrobins (http://www.seanrobins.com)
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To: Cyber Liberty

>>I had a two word response to your sensitive post about Tony Snow’s lying to poor little you, but I realized it will get me in the cooler again. It rhymes with “duck stew.”<<

You thought I was too sensitive? The man is long time Freeper with cancer. I would hope even the folks here who used to argue with him about immigration would be courteous.


127 posted on 08/17/2007 7:36:25 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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To: AndyJackson

>>You don’t live in DC. Greenspam’s game of inflating us out of our financial troubles has accelerated the costs of living in DC out of control. Trying to support a family of 3 on that kind of money is stressing enough without all the other pressures (including costs) that arise from working in the WH. Having to have new well tailored freshly pressed suits must cost him a bomb alone.<<

Somebody up thread said Tony had said that finances might limit his stay when he first went to DC. I didn’t know that when I posted.


128 posted on 08/17/2007 7:39:52 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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To: NautiNurse

>>I hope the thought is not foreign to you that a man would move heaven and earth to secure his family’s future, particularly when his own mortality has been tested twice in five years.<<

If he had said it was health related I would have just wished him well. It was saying it was for finances that didn’t match up to me given a 6 figure salary and the best health insurance anybody can get.


129 posted on 08/17/2007 7:42:29 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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To: Hot Tabasco
You are a fool! Draconian bankruptcy reform? You must be an attorney, right?

Not an attorney or someone who needs bankruptcy. Yes, draconian. You can see from the vast comments on the subject on FR that my opinion is in the majority.

130 posted on 08/17/2007 7:53:53 PM PDT by montag813
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To: gondramB
Health insurance doesn't assure a financial nest egg for a wife and three children when a man can no longer support the family via death or disability. Rather than being cynical, I would believe Snow wants to maximize his income potential because he knows his cancer is incurable.

Everything in this world isn't a conspiracy or ulterior motive due to President Bush.

131 posted on 08/17/2007 7:54:53 PM PDT by NautiNurse (McClatchy News report: Half the nation's families earn below the median family income)
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To: NautiNurse
"Snow wants to maximize his income potential because he knows his cancer is incurable."

You hit it right one the head.

I'm sure Snow has some financial advisors. Snow is not a poor man but not a rich man. In fact, he is border line for living in the DC area and those circles.

IMO, Snow is looking thin and tired. I admire him how he has kept up while going through kimo.

Smart move Tony. One of the best ever press secretaries.

132 posted on 08/17/2007 8:05:21 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Karl Rove for President)
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To: NautiNurse

>>Health insurance doesn’t assure a financial nest egg for a wife and three children when a man can no longer support the family via death or disability. Rather than being cynical, I would believe Snow wants to maximize his income potential because he knows his cancer is incurable.

Everything in this world isn’t a conspiracy or ulterior motive due to President Bush.<<

Of course you are right on that - and someone has posted that Tony mentioned financial concerns from the start.

If I had been less cynical I might have realized that Tony doesn’t seem to be counting on a financial payoff from his government post - and that is a rare and positive outlook.

But sadly, I do, in fact, have, a small cynical streak.


133 posted on 08/17/2007 8:06:41 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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To: gondramB

One of Tony’s best attributes is switching subjects in the middle of a series of questions. That is a tought job at which he is one of the best.


134 posted on 08/17/2007 8:10:16 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Karl Rove for President)
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To: marshmallow

I thought he had colon cancer, not liver cancer


135 posted on 08/17/2007 8:12:26 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: LADY J

Remember, in the words of Patrick Ewing: “we make a lot, but we spend a lot.”


136 posted on 08/17/2007 8:13:09 PM PDT by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth Amendments?)
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To: org.whodat
he has the same health coverage as any senator or congressman

I may be wrong, but I believe that ALL federal employees have their choices from the same group of health plans.

137 posted on 08/17/2007 8:15:40 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: nuconvert
The White House has been shaken by the resignations of some of President Bush's closest aides.

Who says the White House is 'shaken' by this? I certainly haven't heard anyone from the White House say they were 'shaken'.

Sounds like someone has an agenda.

138 posted on 08/17/2007 8:18:44 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: michigander

I’ve always liked this guy. I take him at his word and wish him well.


139 posted on 08/17/2007 8:19:25 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: gondramB
he has been called on to support policies he did not agree with.

I am unaware of any employees, especially government employees, who are encouraged to publicly disagree with their bosses policies. I also do not know of any two politically active people who agree with each other on every single issue.

140 posted on 08/17/2007 8:19:32 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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