Snow Melts
Barely able to survive on the pittance the government pays [$168K/year], Tony Snow is resigning as the Presidential Press Secretary to return to his old job as Presidential Press Secretary at Faux News.
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You seem to forget that Starbucks recently raised their prices — $168K a year doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Snow melts… or one could say Snow falls…
I’m sorry the man is ill, but really, the revolving door between the White House and Fox News is as disgusting as any similar door between high officialdom and K Street.
If Snow does better financially and doesn’t need the $168k a year, I’d be willing to take it off his hands. I could live on that. I s’pose I’d have to learn to lie better, though.
That was quick.
Alice, the staff of this White House are better paid than any White House in history, in real dollar terms. I realize you are being snarky, but pleading poverty, as more than one member of this administration has done, just shows how far out of touch they are with the real world.
I was raised on military and police coffee, so the only time Starbucks could produce what I consider coffee would be when they were cleaning the equipment.
I assume the deal was worked out at Kennebunkport when the Shrubbery’s cousin, Roger Ailes, came to the family reunion. They have been passing out bonuses that are higher than the median income in the US while we are running huge deficits. yep, they are running the government just like a corporation.
Maybe he ran out of lies, Jillian. He hasn’t been very creative recently.
Unfortunately, Bryan, they only care about their reality not what those of us outside of the beltway are going through. Katrina proved that. And in their reality, $168,000 a year is not a lot of money. As bizarre as the previous sentence is, it goes far in explaining White House ‘policy’ and the state of this country. At this point it’s a gimme that BushCo. will leave this country very fubar. Hopefully, we’ll have enough time to fix things and mend relationships. I have my doubts.
I’ve been through this once, I didn’t need to do it again.
They are totally tone-deaf about the reality of American life. Food and fuel are going through the roof and they don’t care because it barely affects them. If you’re not in the top 10% you are going backwards, not forward. Two-thirds of the GDP is consumer spending and it has hit a brick wall.
they are hassling toddlers trying to get on airplanes while allowing millions of poisoned toys to enter the country. Their priorities are totally screwed up.
There has to be a fundamental change in the government in 2008. This garbage has to cease. Maybe it will take a Constitutional amendment, but it has to be absolutely clear that the Executive can’t just do whatever it wants, no matter what the Congress may think.
Maybe he should pull a page from Republican Florida State Representative Bob Allen and start offering $20 blowjobs in the local DC parks!!!!!
Congress….THINK?
Steve Bates said: “I’m sorry the man is ill…”
I’m not.
He deserves to suffer even more than he is for the lies that he’s helped to foist on this country and the lives he’s destroyed while doing so.
Karma couldn’t hit that son-of-a-bitch (and his handlers) hard enough to suit me.
I know, I know, Jill.
Ard and Sam, I can understand your anger, but he is an employee. He does what he is paid to do, and nothing more. His bosses are the ones with the power, save your anger and channel it towards getting rid of them and their influence.
Both of Florida’s Senators are complicit in this mess as are a number of our congresscritters. I’m not to siphon off any of my anger for the staff. I’m saving it for those responsible.
While I don’t feel enough “in the know” to comment on whether he has demonstrated great talent as a press secretary, and I do agree with the previous poster that he did sign on for a specific job that requires some question-dodging-and-weaving, I must say I’m amazed Snow has no shame in declaring he is suffering financial pressures — e.g., because he has kids readying for college. Outside of his current sizable salary (with proper financial management, that could go a long way), he had years as a television reporter making obviously big money — what happened to those dollars? He didn’t put aside college money, etc.? It just speaks to me of current America’s inability to sacrifice, show discipline, or feel the pinch of any inconvenience. You’d think he’d be embarrassed… but instead he seems to be telling everyone about his salary cut and current financial woes as though he fell on the sword for the sake of his country. No shame. It’s embarrasing.
Marie, back in World War II there were an awful lot of people who took government jobs for a dollar a year. The nation was at war and everyone made sacrifices.
This administration keeps claiming, as do its supporters, that we are in a battle for our existence against terrorists, but they are not willing to sacrifice anything. There has been no call for enlistment, no tax increases, no conservation of resources, nothing that even looks like a sacrifice by anyone in power.
Troops are being held in service beyond their enlistment dates, the National Guard and Reserves are called up, but generals get to retire. Only the people at the bottom get to make sacrifices. All of the risk is being pushed to the people below from the people above.