Saintless

Think Progress says CNN is reporting that Tony Snow is stepping down. Dana Perino will be taking his place as Chief Propagandist, aka President’s Liar to the Public.

The Bush administration has begun it’s fall, and there aren’t many left to go.

On a side note, Snow is saying he’s leaving because he needs to make more money. Here’s Snow a year ago, regarding his salary:

MR. SNOW: I think my salary’s like $162,000 or $163,000.

Beyond the fact that he’s obviously making well above the average American’s salary, I find it interesting that Snow’s reaction to cancer is that he needs to make more money.

Let’s compare that to Elizabeth Edwards. The first time she was diagnosed, right at the end of her husband’s presidential campaign:

Well, I have, you know, told the doctor when we met her, I said, ‘I have 40 years of plans.’ I need 40 years, you know? That’s all I’m asking you for is another 40, because I’ve got so much that I want to do. We’ll stay here and get treatment through the end of the school year. At about the end of the school year, we’ll sell the house in Washington and move back to North Carolina with– bought some land in a rural area next to a farm with cows and a creek and a pond. And the kids can grow up in the kind of surroundings that we think are going to be really healthy for them. And continue to get my follow-up treatments down there. And we’ll see what life has to offer.

And recently, about the time her husband announced his ’08 bid:

“We’ve been confronted with these kind of traumas and struggles already in our life,” Edwards said. “When this happens you have a choice — you can go and cower in the corner or you can go out there and be tough.”

Elizabeth Edwards added: “We’re always going to look for the silver lining — it’s who we are as people.”

I can’t help but notice the difference, and while I’m not campaigning for John Edwards, I respect that he and his wife chose what was more important to them. They clung to what mattered. And Tony Snow has also clung to what matters to him. The money. Just a little confirmation about why I’ve never trusted him.

Last night, I had the rare opportunity to sit down and watch television, instead of cleaning, playing referee between children, working or whatever other emergency comes up, so I chose Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann.

Keith showed a clip where Tony Snow said (regarding Congressional investigations into the White House):

But make no mistake, based on legal precedent this is something that the drafters of this particular referral know has very little chance of going anywhere. And so the question is, why are they doing this rather than the people’s business?

Excuse me? Is he seriously trying to say that the White House breaking the law is not the people’s business? I half expected him to wave his hand, saying “these are not the droids you’re looking for.”

I recently posted about Orange Day and the grassroots efforts to begin impeachment proceedings against Cheney. I’m still 100% behind the idea of impeachment, for both Darth Cheney and King George. However, the Cindy Sheehan movement, backed by Democrats.com (not to be confused with Democrats.org), has really disappointed me. I like that they went to John Conyers’ office, but I disliked the things that they have said since that time. John Conyers is not one of the bad guys, and he obviously wants impeachment as badly as I do. I respect him for showing patience, and making sure that impeachment isn’t doomed to failure if he begins the proceedings.