{"id":11480,"date":"2007-08-18T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/18\/another-day-another-rat-jumping.html"},"modified":"2007-08-18T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T06:32:11","slug":"another_day_another_rat_j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/another_day_another_rat_j.html","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another rat jumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after Karl Rove jumped ship from the Bush Administration, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070817\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/tony_snow\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, is bailing as well<\/a>.&nbsp; To his credit, though, he&#8217;s not trotting out the old &#8220;spending more time with the family&#8221; canard.&nbsp; No, his justification is quite straightforward and refreshingly believable:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>White House press secretary Tony Snow said Friday he&#8217;ll leave before the end of the Bush presidency because he needs to make more money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to stay as long as I can,&#8221; he said without elaborating on a departure date.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] 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.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretaries in recent administrations have found the speechmaking circuit to be lucrative once they&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Egads.&nbsp; Only $168K?&nbsp; What sort of penny-ante&nbsp;White House is the GOP running?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/tony_snow_says_he_cant_live_on_just_168000_a_year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after Karl Rove jumped ship from the Bush Administration, Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, is bailing as well.&nbsp; To his credit, though, he&#8217;s not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11187,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/words_come_back_to_haunt.html","url_meta":{"origin":11480,"position":0},"title":"Words come back to haunt","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Mar-07 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"The problem with being a political commentator is that your words can come back to haunt you when the political tides change -- or your job does. \"What kinds of...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fourth Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9666,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/there_dont_you.html","url_meta":{"origin":11480,"position":1},"title":"There, don&#8217;t you feel better?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-May-06 12:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"President Bush assures the nation that the government isn't doing things we don't want them to do, though if they were, they wouldn't have to tell us. 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