Source: Breitbart.com
Well, Republican sources close to the White House are saying that Tony Snow is in the lead to replace Scott McClellan.
And excuse me while I laugh at this:
Snow has told associates he would like to take the job and he has had serious discussions with White House officials, the Republicans said on condition of anonymity because of President Bush's dislike of news leaks.
Ahem.
Some interesting facts about Tony Snow:
*He was born in Kentucky and raised in Cincinnati.
*He was "known at Davidson College in the '70s as the longhair with a penchant for playing the Jethro Tull tune 'Aqualung' on his flute". (WTF? Boy, times sure have changed for him.)
*(This tidbit is amusing:) He is an avid musician and has played with some rock 'n' roll legends. He plays flute, alto flute, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax and guitar and belongs to a cover band, Beats Workin', which features fellow Washington-area professionals.
*He taught physics and East African Geography in Kenya.
*He worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in North Carolina.
*He's a former speechwriter and media advisor for Papa Bush.
*He's worked for quite a few newspapers in his time, including The Washington Times and USA Today.
*He once said about Vietnam (he dodged the draft, by the way), "Most protestors got involved not because they had lofty feelings about war and peace. They joined in because they were bored, because disobedience was exciting, because the movement provided the next best thing to a dating service and because they wanted a high-minded way to dodge the draft."
*He has supposedly come down hard on Bush and Congress before.
As a conservative columnist and commentator, Snow has been sharply critical of Bush and Republicans in Congress at times. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, circulated unflattering observations by Snow about Bush.
"His (Bush's) wavering conservatism has become an active concern among Republicans, who wish he would stop cowering under the bed and start fighting back against the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Wilson," Snow wrote last November after Republicans failed to win the governor's race in Virginia. "The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment."
Last month, Snow wrote that Bush and the Republican Congress had "lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc. (treasury)"
Snow, in an Associated Press interview Wednesday, said: "It's public record. I've written some critical stuff. When you're a columnist, you're going to criticize and you're going to praise."
*He has a whole article dedicated to his falsehoods as written by Media Matters.
All of this does not factor into why he's in the lead, though. To Bush, the deciding factors (as with most of his choices) are: he worked for his father, and he worked for
Luckily for Mr. Snow, he doesn't get to be "critical" of Bush anymore.
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