If It's Friday ....

Then it must be a resignation day.

Two big ones today and another on Saturday. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow steps down, and Sen. John Warner (R-VA) announces he will not seek re-election. Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) is expected to resign on Saturday.

Snow, 52, has cancer and said he could no longer afford the pay cut (salary $168,000 a year) he took when he left TV news (April 2006) for the White House. Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino, 35, will succeed Snow on 14 September. She will be the second woman to hold this position. (The first? Dee Dee Myers, Clinton White House.)

Warner, 80, will not seek a sixth term; he is the second-longest serving member of the Senate. (Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WVA, is number one, being elected to his ninth consecutive term in 2006.) Warner bowed out of the 2008 presidential race last October. He was first elected to the Senate in 1978, was Secretary of the Navy Secretary under President Nixon and, more recently, was former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The public might know him better for his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor.

Warner's announcement puts pressure on the GOP, which has 22 Senate seats to defend in 2008.

Craig, 63, came under fire this week over an incident in the Twin Cities Airport in June. He pled guilty to a misdemeanor being charged with a victimless crime -- but reportedly GOP leaders were about to ask him to resign. They did no such thing when former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) pled guilty to a felony for corruption. Hypocrites.

Craig is a three-term Senator who supported the Defense of Marriage Act. The Governor of Idaho would then appoint a replacement; voters would choose next November. The Idaho Statesman reports that the state GOP says me Lt. Gov. Jim Risch will get the nod but that the Gov. Butch Otter has not yet made that decision.