WASHINGTON: For John Snow, the newly anointed nominee for the top Treasury post, the first order of business was not a new round of tax cuts, but a resignation of his own - one every bit as decisive as that of his hapless predecessor, Paul O'Neill, who had been forced to walk the plank earlier in the week.
Snow's nomination, announced even before the sharks had cleared away O'Neill, followed a stealthy vetting process emblematic of the Bush White House at ...