Surprise!

About a week ago, Scott McClellan 'resigned' as the press secretary for the White House. Either he got sick and tired of lying to the American people every day, or the axis of evil (bush, cheney & rove) decided to change the face of the administration under growing public discontent. They aren't willing to admit mistakes in any of their policy failures, so obviously they won't fire anyone that has anything to do with policy decisions. Anyways... Bush announced his new Press Secretary today.



And the winner is..... FOX NEWS ANALYST: Tony Snow! Surprise! Whoa, never would have expected that one.

A completely predictable decision; go with someone who already works for the right-wing propoganda machine that is Fox News and have him work directly for the propoganda machine that is the White House.

But the big twist to this story is what Tony Snow has said about the administration in the past (not very nice things). Here's a list of them:


– Bush has “lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc.” [3/17/06]

– “George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion.” [3/17/06]

– “President Bush distilled the essence of his presidency in this year’s State of the Union Address: brilliant foreign policy and listless domestic policy.” [2/3/06]

– “George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.” [11/11/05]

– Bush “has a habit of singing from the Political Correctness hymnal.” [10/7/05]

– “No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.” [9/30/05]

– “When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can’t say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn’t seem to mean what he says.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]

– “The president doesn’t seem to give a rip about spending restraint.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]

– “Bush, for all his personal appeal, ultimately bolstered his detractors’ claims that he didn’t have the drive and work ethic to succeed.” [11/16/00]

– “George W. Bush, meanwhile, talks of a pillowy America, full of niceness and goodwill. Bush has inherited his mother’s attractive feistiness, but he also got his father’s syntax. At one point last week, he stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words, like a soul tortured with Tourette’s.” [8/25/00]

– “He recently tried to dazzle reporters by discussing the vagaries of Congressional Budget Office economic forecasts, but his recitation of numbers proved so bewildering that not even his aides could produce a comprehensible translation. The English Language has become a minefield for the man, whose malaprops make him the political heir not of Ronald Reagan, but Norm Crosby.” [8/25/00]


---> reality is so much stranger than fiction; you couldn't write this stuff. I wonder what he's going to say when reporters ask him to comment on any of these statements. Probably something like: "Come on now, that was a whole year ago (month ago), it was just a joke!" Typical FLIP FLOPPER...
Oh the irony. In ten years, this whole period in american history is going to been seen as totally and completely bizarre.