Fitting

Well, he's already proved that he loves to drink the Kool-Aid.

President Bush on Wednesday named conservative commentator Tony Snow as White House press secretary, putting a new face on a troubled administration.

Snow, a Fox News pundit and former speechwriter in the White House under Bush's father, replaced Scott McClellan, who resigned in a personnel shuffle intended to re-energize the Bush White House and lift the president's record-low approval ratings.

Yeah, bringing in someone from Fox News should really improve Bush's approval rating.

Many recent White House moves indicate that the attempt to bolster Bush's sagging approval rating is really an attempt to court only defecting conservatives. Who else would be impressed that the administration looked to Fox News for its mouthpiece? This isn't exactly reaching across the aisle, or the radical change the White House will attempt to portray it as -- Fox has been the administration's mouthpiece since before Scalia helped steal the 2000 election; this just makes the relationship more formal.

Conservatives who still think this mess of an administration is salvagable have been calling for Bush to appoint an outsider. And it appears the administration considers an outsider anyone who doesn't already work at the White House. Because Bush hasn't been conservative enough for Fox, Snow has been critical of Bush recently (who hasn't?), and the White House points to that as evidence that Snow is a true outsider. But what new ideas can one reasonably expect Tony Snow to bring to the table? He's not likely to challenge any of the administration's core positions or affect meaningful change. He's just another like-minded conservative who can't reasonably be expected to bring a fresh perspective to anything the administration already does. He's been a cheerleader for George Bush since 2000, so his job description hasn't really changed, just the address of his office.