Karl Rove resigns and now Tony Snow is leaving the white house?

Question

Anybody else think they are getting out while congress is in recess for fear there is going to be a major fallout and showdown when they come back?

"I'm going to stay as long as I can," he said without elaborating on a departure date. Sources told CNN he may step down as early as next month.

Snow's comment caught White House colleagues by surprise, and they said they could not hazard a guess about when he might leave.

The 52-year-old Snow, the father of three children, earns $168,000 as an assistant to the president but made considerably more as a conservative pundit and syndicated talk-show host on Fox News Radio. He was named press secretary on April 26, 2006.

White House press secretaries in recent administrations have found the speechmaking circuit to be lucrative once they've stepped down. Snow was eagerly sought by Republican audiences before the elections last year, and in a break with tradition he made a number of fundraising speeches for GOP candidates.

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. Others who have left since Democrats won control of Congress are counselor Dan Bartlett, chief White House attorney Harriet Miers, budget director Rob Portman, political director Sara Taylor, deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch and Meghan O'Sullivan, another deputy national security adviser who worked on Iraq .

ChiGuy...I agree with you on that. He's been put under a lot of scrutiny by reporters and he could be getting worried about his soul even. I like Snow and I have seen him struggle for the words to give the American people. I think he is actually a decent person.

Answer 1

My impression is that Snow may feel uncomfortable lying on behalf of the president. Snow is pretty sharp and can probably tell when things do not add up. He is having a more difficult time responding to very valid questions by the press corp. He may also sense that his credibility is currently tied to Bush's.

He is probably fed up with the Iraq debacle as well, but as a Republican drone, will never come outright and say so.

Answer 2

These folks are actually the smart ones, believe it or not. Why not leave when everyone in America is focused on Rudy, Obama, Hilary and every other schmoe that is campaigning for their boss's job. No one seems to be paying attention to this or is paying little attention to the White House. The closer it gets to 2008, the people who are at the executive level will be there to take the garbage from the Democrats and even those Republicans who want reforms, an exit strategy and a blame for anything that goes wrong. Rove and Snow are smart men who have seen what happens at the end of a lame duck presidential year. Nothing gets done and your presidential approval points go lower. In the case of G.W. Bush, that could be lower than Harding or Hoover. The only way the approval points will go up is either leaving Iraq, finding Bin Laden or something less than a miracle happens.

Answer 3

There's no reason to believe the fallout in congress will be any bigger after the recess than before. Nothing has happened or will happen during the recess to make a significant difference. I think it's just normal turnover. The White House chief of staff recently said that if people in the White House aren't going to stay until the end of the President's turn, they should resign now, rather than wait until the middle of the next election season.

Answer 4

You know I read an awful lot on American Politics, and I've always known when the politicions get "air time" (both parties) though the republicians are notoriously worse. I believe they all beccame part of a criminal organization back as far as the Reagon administration, with the Iran/Contra.. arming both Saddam and Iran for obscene profits. Maybe further back to 1959 with the overthrough of the much loved elected president of Iran. No matter , I was aware that the press constantly lied, yet back then I still so wanted to believe in the "Good America" and that thhat if the ( me choking ) free press was supressing or distorting the facts surely it must be in the interest of national secuity or some benign reason they couldn't say yet.
By the time Clinton became President, the press press turned savage. The republican and some democratic congress rendered him a) almost innoffective b) world laughing stalking (though he came out looking the better man) except in the pressures to defect attention he was driven to commit a terrorist act blowing up a pharmacutical company in Kenya for which tens if not hundreds of thousands of people relied on for generic drugs to treat simple dieases as malaria, measles, a long list as well all their vetenary drugs. People are still dying today for that one act. Then I went to library and read up on Tom Delay and his brother from Sugarland Texas. I believe the man is an abosute full blown phycopatic monster. Then Newt and Starr.
The next thing I say in all truth as I believe it;
America would be a way better country if we never had Texas, gave it to Mexico, at the very made laws barring any texan from a)running for public office of any kind b) lobbying for any cause, people or reason (Lacking that themselves) c)talking or socializing with any people in government or lobbiest d) admit oil depletion tax laws are a hoax that merely soak every other tax payer who gets cheated on everything from education to firemen and libraries.
Sorry In wondered alittle off topic. I am ashamed to admit during this time I steriotyped 1rst every rhepiblican then threw all the dems in with them.
I was wrong their are good senators and people in the administration, but it takes courage to buck the system. A few that come to mind are "Richard Clarck, Paul O'neil, Jack Harding, Gary Webb,Paul Wilson,Gene Cretian,John McCain, Ann Richards,Saddam Hussien, Ken Lay,Woman who pressed rape charges against George W Bush in Texas, (suicide by shotgun to back of the head, like 2 other on above list.) Dan Rather the list long to survive it you must be high profile, the deaths are merely suspicous because of their publication of thing the Bushies did not want OUT THERE, the difficulty if even possible suiciding by shot to back of head, all done while daddy was CIA director. Other then that there is suppossedly no proof.
Tony Snow seemed to come into the job as a true believer and the convictions of what he stood for. I never agreed with his conviction , but respected him for living in D.C. and having them. Though it did not long before the strain started to show. I believe that was the unravalling of all the beliefs he held dear about his country, his party, his government..as he got an up close and personal look at the parody of Rove, Bush, Cheney, Rice giggle with glee on the profits from Iraq. Rove gloating how easy it is to lead the sheeple and how well his "strategy has worked"
A reconing is coming down the pike, not a leader among the crony oppertunist. As they grab the life rafts they'll leave all women and children behind and in the aftermath of our coming disiaster lets hope all those documents Cheney has shrouded in secrecy aren't all shredded. How bad does the disaister have to be for us to get an honest government, or will this merely be an oppurtunity for government to implement all those executive orders allowinf FEMA total control over every aspect of our lives, as all remaing rights and liberties are taken away, elections suspended and dissenter's are simply disappeared...Mary

Answer 5

They probably saw the iceberg and decided to jump ship. Snow though probably left more so because of his poor health, cancer does that to people. I feel sorry for him. I mean compare a picture of him from 2005, and today, he's been through a lot, the cancer is clearly taking its toll.

T.D. WTF? Ok, 38 years: Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, BushJr. 4 Republicans and 2 Democrats, wow big f'n lead lol. Well maybe three, because Ford wasn't even elected, he was appointed and also it was clear that the Republicans didn't like him much anyway when they nominated Reagan over Ford for the1976 election. Also Bush Jr. isn't much of a conservative (More spending, bigger government...)

Answer 6

Gee! All that "good" reporting from CNN and absolutely no mention that Tony Snow suffers from cancer. He's been under treatment, including chemotherapy, since being diagnosed. I think he returned to his duties at the White House too soon.
Too bad that Tony Snow came to his present position from Fox News. I'll bet if he came to that job from CNN they would be most solicitious of his health. I'm waiting to see how they react and report if Christian Anampour's husband gets ill. He used to be the Press Secretary at the State Department under President Clinton.

Answer 7

I don't know about Snow - but I am ready to bet that Karl Rove will always be available for private consultations - as is Rumsfeld, Kissinger, etc. etc.

Answer 8

Rove cried tears. Not for his loss. Snow is headed for Dubai.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Those that are asleep will remain asleep even when the truth is before them.

Answer 9

some say he has cancer, cnn was saying financial reasons,

i don't care,

he sucks, don't let the door hit you on the way out,

cancer sucks don't get me wrong but this is 2007 and doctors and medicine are very advanced, this isn't the big C word it used to be when I was a kid,

i think most of us real americans are sick of the bushies

GO AWAY ALREADY NEOCONSERVATIVES

Answer 10

No, this is normal turnover. Libs don't have much experience here, having elected only two presidents in the last 38 years.