It’s Snow

What kind of press secretary will Tony Snow be? Will Slate’s “It’s a Snow Job” be a prescient headline or merely a funny headline?

Expect the formal announcement today, but it looks like the last remaining obstacles came when a fresh medical exam cleared Snow’s path and after “top officials assured him that he would be not just a spokesman but an active participant in administration policy debates.”

As Marc Ambinder reports, “Snow is said by Republicans familiar with the negotiations to have asked for guaranteed access to the president’s ear and to an unusually large degree of latitude to reconfigure the WH press operation. That pleases the new chief of staff, who wants to relegitimize the press podium in the Brady briefing room. But Snow, not content to be a herald, also wants near-complete control over what he says from the podium, be it bromides, platitudes or substance. That would encroach on the broad portfolio of responsibilities that Dan Bartlett claims for himself.”

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