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How is this any different from his current job at FOX News?

With a few personnel shifts going on in the White House, there’s speculation that presidential spokesman Scott McClellan may be looking to step down.

One of the people the White House has approached as a possible replacement for McClellan is FOX News Radio host Tony Snow. The White House discussed the possibility with Snow as recently as this week.

The big question is, “Who replaces Tony Snow?” I hear Jeff Gannon is still looking for work. He may not have Tony’s experience, but eight inches uncut can’t be overlooked…

UPDATE: Atrios notes this quote from CNN’s John Roberts about what qualities a good White House press secretary should have:

Be willing to take it full in the face every day.

Jeffster, this sounds right up your alley…

Details, details…

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Sigh:

Bush was asked if his administration was planning for the possibility of a nuclear strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.

“All options are on the table,� he said.

But, the president added: “We’ll continue to work diplomatically to get this problem solved.�

I need to stop reading the news. I just know that one day I’m going to wake up and read something like:

“Bush was asked if his administration planned to poison the Massachusetts water supply to retaliate for their legalization of homo nups.

‘All options are on the table,’ he said.”

Gavin adds: Maybe Bush just needs a storage solution. Maybe some shelves, a closet organizer…

Poor Gregory Djerejian. I may disagree with him about a great many things, but he’s a decent guy who makes neoconservative arguments better than anyone in the Bush administration ever has. Because of this, I’m really worried about what he’s going to do when he reads this:

Pressed to respond to critics who say he is ignoring the advice of respected former military commanders, Bush vigorously stood by Rumsfeld.

“I listen to all voices, but mine is the final decision,” he said. “And Don Rumsfeld is doing a fine job. He’s not only transforming the military, he’s fighting a war on terror. He’s helping us fight a war on terror. I have strong confidence in Don Rumsfeld.

“I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.”

Setting aside the ridiculous lie that Bush actually reads newspapers, have you ever heard any world leader say anything as remotely idiotic as “I’m the decider and I decide what is best?” He sounds like a character in a freaking Dr. Seuss story. In fact, that gives me an idea…

Down by the Pentagon, where the crickle grass grows,
Where for years the insurgents have been in their “last throes”
Old Donald Rumsfeld relaxed and kicked back
And thought of the fine job he’d done in Iraq

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Hey Michelle- I know that the UC Santa Cruz kids foolishly posted their own phone numbers on-line before you did. But once you learned that the kids were getting death threats from your readers, shouldn’t you have stopped posting their damn numbers on the Internet? Just to, you know, cool things down before someone gets hurt? I mean, Jesus Christ.

UPDATE: I hope Keith Olbermann starts routinely ridiculing Malkin the same way he did to O’Reilly. Frankly, she’s far more deserving.

Andrew Sullivan dealt the President a double blow yesterday (no, not that kind of blow … and not this kind or that kind, either) when he argued that Bush was not only quite unpopular, but that constitutional limits to his power might prevent him from bombing Iran at his exclusive discretion. Powerline’s Paul “The Deacon” Mirengoff sees it all as so much Bush-bashing:

Great Scott, he’s doing it again. Aaaargh!

Head … feeling … dizzy. Reasoning … faculties … jammed. Must … refute … from … the safety of … the jump.
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RED SOX WIN!!!!!11!

(Consider this your Patriot’s Day open thread.)

Yay! The good Easter Bunny, whom we know and love, has lain the following morselly eggs of wingnut destruction!

Let’s inspect them and nibble of their chocolatey goodness:

teh l4m3, the Lara Croft of the Internets, uncovers 2,800 year old wingnuttery!

The profoundly disrespectable Outside The Tent concocts nefarious plans. No details are offered, but we here at Sadly, No! encourage you to invade OTT’s netspace, then spy, make friends, suck up, and offer sexual favors to gather intelligence, which you will report back to us ASAP (please). In the meantime, enjoy Outside The Tent’s wonderfully Over The Top wingnut-bashing, of which this is a good example.

In comments to this post by Ross Douthat (who is basically a slightly more intelligent Ben Shapiro — unbearably sexually frustrated, but more sophisticated in his overcompensated prudery), in which AssDouthat bemoaned a society that accepts and even welcomes pube-shaving, one Will Wilkinson offers a smashing retort. Smasho! Meanwhile, Roy Edroso perfectly Shorters, if not shaves, Douthat’s woolly, reactionary Kulturkrit.

Scott Lemieux catches Bill Kristol phoning-in tired Munichappeasmenthitler cliches. Yo: The next wingnut who references Chamberlain, Halifax, Munich, “Peace in our time,” etc., with regard to whatever’s-going-on-in-the-Middle-East, will be forced to loft at least two Chamberlain-model black umbrellas in an open field during an electrical storm. STiF the FU already, S the F up. Est-foo.

Robert Farley notes that the Kristolmethodists have a new pet, and makes the right analogy.
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Did you get your oyster basket*?

* Kosher for Passover

This is getting ridiculous (and funny too):

Yes. You see, the results of the reporting encourage more bombings to occur. If the media just didn’t report on bombings so much, then the terrorists wouldn’t think that they were succeeding, and then they would eventually give up.

By this logic, the media should have never reported about 9/11- that way, al Qaeda would never have been able to realize their own success. Keep up the great thinkin’, Gary!