[DoughtyOne]

The White House has been shaken by the resignations of some of President Bush's closest aides. Political strategist Karl Rove announced Monday that he would leave at the end of the month. Longtime Bush adviser Dan Bartlett left earlier this year and Andrew Card left earlier as Bush's chief of staff.

Snow is still under cancer treatment. While finances may enter into this, it's hard for me to classify this as a real hardship case.

This appears like an attempt to embarass Snow to the max, as if he were dead broke or something.

As for this administration being shaken, that's as preposterous as it would have been to say the same thing when Clinton's rats fled the sinking ship in the last few years of his presidency.

People always leave about this stage of the process. Of course we can't expect a company as amaturish as AP to be able to recall prior administrations. I doubt they have anyone on staff that was out of junior high during the Clinton Administration, by the quality of reporting these days.

[nuconvert]

“This appears like an attempt to embarass Snow to the max, as if he were dead broke or something.”

Actually, Tony has said in several interviews (I heard him on Hewitt) that he would stay as long as he financially could, but that he’d have to leave before the end of Pres. Bush’s term - leaving his departure date open.