CNN just confirmed that Tony Snow will be named White House spokesman tomorrow. Here’s what Snow wrote in a column about candidate George W. Bush in 2000:

At one point last week, he stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words, like a soul tortured with Tourette’s…

Bush … has to persuade people he’s smart. He recently tried to dazzle reporters by discussing the vagaries of Congressional Budget Office economic forecasts, but his recitation of numbers proved so bewildering that not even his aides could produce a comprehensible translation.

The English Language [sic] has become a minefield for the man, whose malaprops make him the political heir not of Ronald Reagan, but Norm Crosby. Who can forget the time he vowed defiantly not to let the opposition put him in cufflinks? (He meant “handcuffs.”)