Tony Snow"job" told the White House Press Corp today in a not so clever way that he was going to be resigning soon due to 'financial reasons' (yeah, sure Tony) but did not give a specific date. He also mentioned others were going to be departing their posts at the White House. It seems that whoever joined the Bush team has left with deep scars. Tony already had some bad bruises from working at Fox, the White House added the lacerations. The full list was compiled by TP today.
From ThinkProgress:
Snow’s upcoming departure makes him one of a bevy of top administration officials who, since November, have left their posts. ThinkProgress has compiled a list of some of the key resignations:
- White House Senior Political Adviser Karl Rove
- White House Counselor Dan Bartlett
- White House Budget Director Rob Portman
- White House Counsel Harriet Miers
- White House Political Director Sara Taylor
- White House Director of Strategic Initiatives Pete Wehner
- White House Deputy National Security Adviser J.D. Crouch
- Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty
- Acting Associate Attorney General William Mercer
- Justice Department White House liaison Monica Goodling
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
- Army Secretary Francis Harvey
- Joint Chief of Staffs Chairman Peter Pace
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson
- U.N. Ambassador John Bolton
- USAID Director Randall TobiasWith so many key staff departures, the AP reports that “Bush has decided he might get more done in his final months by going it alone,” making increased use of executive orders and veto power.
Bush is definitely "going at it alone." He lost the support of most Americans a long time ago. Only the die-hard ideologues remain and even some of them have left him to twist in the perilous winds of history. He continues to make a mockery of our democracy and will stop at nothing to run America into the ground. We will be left to pick up the pieces in 2009 and rebuild from there.
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