Snow day:

Ahhhh, Tony Snow's first real day on the job as White House Press Secretary for GWB. I wanted, and expected to see, a harsh and contentious PB, with the Snow from FNC bashing the press after every question that irked him, calling them all slimy liberal commie Osama-worshipping terrorists and storming out of the room, calling for two big Uzi's.

Unfortunately, I must admit that it went rather well. This guy is good, too good. And that's bad for us liberals. The reporters at the briefing seemed almost in awe of Tony, asking him relatively softball-esque Q's - with the obvious exception being Helen Thomas. He seemed jovial and light, with the press corps following suit. They really choked today.

No, I take that back. Tony Snow LITERALLY choked - well, choked up. That was a really weird moment. Yes, Tony Snow cried today. I first thought that the sound feed had gone out or something, but no. He was holding back sobs. Good grief. Some FNC/Bush admin. plant in the room had asked him about the "yellow bracelet" TS was wearing. Come on. Don't we all know what those stand for by now? "Obviously not".

Anyhow, Snow took this as his cue to endear homself to the nation and the PC - promptly giving us his colon cancer story from last year, nearly breaking down. "Just having gone through this last year... was the best thing that ever happened to me,'' he wailed, just before going silent - dead silent- for what seemed to be about 1 minute. "It's my Ed Muskie moment,'' Snow responded. Sure it is Tony.....
Like I said, realllllly weird.