The Tony Snow Show

Reason Magazine ^ | December 23, 2007 | Shikha Dalmia

[saveliberty]

Pinging the Snowflakes :-)

Ho, ho, ho!

Cheers,

sl

[Nachum]

Used to like Tony Snow, but after the border patrol agents were given the shaft I can’t even stand his voice.

[saveliberty]

We may disagree with him on some policies, but we still respect him and like him.

You are free to do otherwise.

[lapster]

Tony was a terrible disapointment in that respect. I, of course, pray for his recovery from cancer. But, his flippant denounciation of those of us who want to protect our borders pretty much soured me on him.

[Calvin Locke]

Snow can go sell out America someplace else.

I gave up on him permanently after the 2006 election "Now the president has a Congress he can work with" statement.

[raybbr]

Also, we haven't had a lot of the issues on which I was critical that have arisen since I've been here. For instance, on an issue like immigration that I was really passionate about, he took on a lot of Republicans and I'm very proud of what he was doing.

Uh, Tony, maybe "taking on republicans" wasn't such a good idea when you are supposed the be the de facto leader of the republican party.

Plus, I curious as to why he was passionate about supporting amnesty.

[HonestConservative]

Thank you, sl. Merry Christmas!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“I gave up on him permanently after the 2006 election “Now the president has a Congress he can work with” statement.”

By saying that, Snow put the onus on the new Congress to be cooperative. The statement makes Bush look like he’s open for reasonable negotiations. If he’d said: “the President cannot work with this Congess”; he would only have made Bush look unreasonable.

[saveliberty]

Many on this site have rightly taken on Republicans, surely? What about Trent Lott? What about the 7 who compromised over judicial nominations?

It’s good to have discussions and different points of view of policy.

[saveliberty]

You’re welcome, HC! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

[BIGLOOK]

[saveliberty]

I am questioning the context of that comment, made earlier by another poster.

A link would permit others to make their own judgment.

Even so, after the election conservatives including Mary Katharine Ham, who cedes her credentials to no one, said that when it appeared that the new Congress was going to cut spending and pork, wasn’t that what policies we wanted?

It later turned out to be all talk on the Dem’s part, but Tony’s not the only person who gave the newly elected pols the benefit of the doubt.

[Grunthor]

“Used to like Tony Snow, but after the border patrol agents were given the shaft I can’t even stand his voice.”

Agreed, and while I wish him no ill will, I could never support his show nor his open borders views.

[Calvin Locke]

No, However, I may have left out "immigration" in my quoting, but the earlier Republican congress was giving him pretty much everything else, including stuff nobody really wanted or needed.

When Congress and the President are of the same party, it is hard for Congress to oppose what the President wants, unless it's really a stickler back in the home districts and states...

[Bahbah]

Merry Christmas, save.

Thanks for the present :)

[ThreePuttinDude]

I did a little looking around at the reason.com website,
and all I can say is WOW they have some whack-O’s on their
staff.

One guy wants the total legalization of pot and heroin, and
it “should” be used as recreational. YIKES and its a Drew Carey
affiliated site.

Again all I can say is WOW Drew, who would have known...

[Waco]

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[raybbr]

Many on this site have rightly taken on Republicans, surely? What about Trent Lott? What about the 7 who compromised over judicial nominations?

Yes, but Bush "took on republicans" over a matter that 65 to 70 percent of republicans disagreed with him on. It's one thing to take on a couple of rogue RINO's but to turn you back on your base is something completely different.