Clarke: I’d rather kill myself than be Bush’s press secretary.

In Robert Draper’s new book Dead Certain, he writes that chief of staff Josh Bolten’s first choice to replace Scott McClellan as press secretary was Donald Rumsfeld’s former spokeswoman in the Pentagon, Torie Clarke. Clarke informed Bolten that she would “rather commit suicide” than take McClellan’s job. Bolten’s second choice, Tony Snow, was given the job despite the fact that he “botched his three run-throughs — failing to even recite the White House’s Iraq talking points.”