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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Tony Snow’s first day as WH press secretary
By all accounts, things went well – he managed to put Democrat Helen Thomas, who is prone to moonbattiness, in her place in response to her ‘question’ about the President and the Constitution.
He also talked a little bit about the his battle with cancer last year after someone from the WH press corps (which numbered around 100, double the usual 50 or so norm per the Examiner) asked him about the yellow Lance Armstrong Livestrong Foundation bracelet he was wearing.
Here’s a transcript of the today’s briefing – a link to the full video is included on that page as well.
He looks good up there. Methinks the best is yet to come 
Wed. AM Update: The NYTimes gives Tony’s first day a favorable review (after, of course, throwing in a juicy tidbit about the various meanings of ‘tar baby’, a term Snow used yesterday), while describing former WH Press Sec. Scott McClellan “testy” – but hey, if I had to face an anti-Bush press everyday, I’d get a little testy too after a while … and I’m sure it would show 
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Snow gears up for first official press gaggle, slams press
- DNC playing their favorite card: the race card – against Tony Snow
- Confirmed via FoxNews: Snow will be announced as WH press sec. tomorrow
- DC grapevine: Snow “likely” to accept WH press sec. job
- Tony Snow in negotiations to become WH press secretary
- WH press secretary Scott McClellan has resigned
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- Ahhh Helen…. what would the Gaggle do without her… She starts off right out of the gate with “all the innocent Americans that are having thier phones wire-taped”, and went downhill from there, basically ending by mis-quoting the President, which Tony just crushed, serving notice on her and others, that whatever else happens he’s not going to broach the usual Liberal lies….Good job. exactly what we were hoping for.
- Bang
Thomas from Hel mets Snow plough?
Q One last question if I can. The definition of comprehensive immigration reform that the President demands, does it have to include a path to citizenship?
MR. SNOW: Does it have to? The President laid out exactly what he thinks is necessary, and keep in mind, Carl, what he was saying is you cannot do one thing at a time. You have to do it all at once, or it all falls apart.
- See this is the major disconnect with the President and Capital hill Republicans on the one side, and the majority of Americans on the other.
- We want these two issues divorced, and theres a good reason. The last time this whole issue was supposidly “fixed” we went through the same exact process and debate. What happened was the citizen aspects were implimented, although largely ignored by most illegals, and the border patrol side was all but dropped, with just a few pitiful concessions.
- Secondly there is no enherent reason they need to be inter-locked from an effectiveness standpoint, unless you look at the possible political motives.
- The Reps are trying to “balance” this issue, by offering what amounts to “slow amnesty” to throw a bone to the voting hispanic block, to offset the border enforcement side. Great for the politicians, but not so great for the border state citizens.
- Normally I wouldn’t have a problem with smart politics. But this time its more than just political expediency, because by tying them together you run the risk of repeating 1986. Even if things are done better, it opens up the whole process to too much foot dragging, and I can tell you from personal experience the rush is already on. Every day counts. an estimated 7000 Illegals come across every day, and that number is also growing, now that the issues are out in the open. It will become a litteral flood as people become more and more desperate, believing they can beat some sort of deadline. I don’t get the feeling that they are really aware of this problem inside the beltway, and I don’t thinl the Pres. making a single trip to Arizona is going to change that very much.
- Long winded negotiations, bills that bounce back and forth ad nausea from committee to comittee, is exactly what we don’t need.
- I think its buying time to avoid dealing with the basic border issues head on. The citizenship issue could take years to iron out, but even 6 months is way to long.
- Maybe the 6000 NG will open the door for a real step forward, leaving aside the little extra comment of the Pres. today that sounded like they were leaving room for “slow deployment” of the NG which sounded like a trap door, but tying them together smacks of pure political gaming. Its the only reason I can think of for the stubborn way they’re clinging to that idea.
- The Dems are basically MIA. they see this as a win/win for their side, if they just let the Reps carry the water, and snipe and obstruct from the sidelines as usual.
- What the Dems don’t want middle America to know is they don’t want any kind of border control. They’re also playing it from the political angle, just injecting as much confusion as they can. You can see that echoed in the weird sorts of articles coming out of the left-wing press like the NYTrash, where they keep referring to and “effective” immigration program, which they never define, typical of the left these days, while they snipe at every proposal Bush comes up with.
- I don’t know which is worse. The Reps for ignoring the wishes of the public, or the Dems for practising chaos for purely partisan gain. I guess I expect it from the Dems who showed long ago they care more about power than the people, but the Reps have me really disgusted at this point, because they know what the majority of Americans want, but they’re ignoring it.
- Bang