Just Out Of Curiosity……
….. how many of y’all didn’t already know this?
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
I’m pretty sure this is big news to these people.
I’ve already pre-ordered it.
http://www.amazon.ca/What-Happened-Washingtons-Culture-Deception/dp/1433214342/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211998074&sr=1-3
Ooooh hoo hoo hoo… Should be good.
“permanent campaign approach”
Just like a certain Bush-worshipper who’s off on a photo-op tour right now.
YOU MEAN BUSH WASN’T TELLING THE TRUTH ON THE IRAQ WAR, AND THOSE WMD, AND TERRORIST LINKS? I AM SHOCKED!!!!!
I am shocked!!! Well, I have been shocked since Dec 2002 when I figured out the Bush Administration was lying and cooking the intell data. What still surprises me is that this is actually new news to people.
Can’t wait to hear Faux News Spin this one.
Bush and his Administration are the biggest group of Hard Core Criminals in the history of world. They make the former liberals look like kids stealing cookies from the cookie jar. Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie and the entire Fox News team need to arrested, tried, convicted and then shot.
McCllelan will now be treated to the same attacks as Richard Clarke when his memoir came out – he’s trying to sell a book! He must be lying!
Peter D, have a look at today’s NY Times.
(paraphrasing here)
Dana Perino: “He seemed like such a nice young man. Not so sure now”.
Karl Rove (on Fox News): “This doesn’t sound like the Scotty M. we all knew. He’s delusional. He sounds just like… like… a left-wing blogger!!!”
If McLelland was so convinced that what was going on was wrong, why didn’t he speak up then? Why didn’t he resign? He could have done either but he didn’t. He just kept cozying up to Bush and Co. and enjoyed the trappings of power.
He’s a scumbag opportunist of the worst kind.
Thanks for that interesting and depressingly predictable attack on the messenger.
Now back the actual topic…the nightmare that was the Bush Administration.
Predictable in what way? Have I ever supported W?
McLelland is a moral coward. Even if what he says is true.
What’s interesting is how little actual denial the neocons have been able to muster this week to rebut McLellan. It’s almost as though they’ve forgotten how. I must have heard a dozen or so of the usual mouthpieces, including Rove, none of whom actually provided a substantive contradiction of McLellan’s narrative – they all simply piled on insults, as nastyboy is doing.
It’s certainly going to make for an interesting spectacle this summer: I wonder how the Republican handlers are going to keep Bush out of sight during McCain’s campaign?
If Mclelland is so trustworthy, did you beleive him when he was a member of the administration or only now that he’s validating your own opinion?
Still no actual counter assertions, Nastyboy? No actual rebuttal at all? Just the same old shit?
A little hint. If you want to retain credibility in a discussion like this, find something to hang your scepticism on. Otherwise, my son, you’re providing a picture perfect illustration of the medieval cosmographer/ideologue in action.
Did I say that he’s wrong? I haven’t made a statement either way because I don’t care.
Mclelland and others like him who come out with these supposed tell alls should be viewed with contempt. It’s easy for them to come out now and criticize the Bush administration when the vultures are circling, but where were they when the shit was going down? They were complacent, cozying up to the administration, to scared to ask the needed questions or take them on. That includes the Democrats and the MSM too.
It’s to easy now for him to come out and say, “Well, I knew all along that mistakes were beeing made.” when he was party to the whole thing. It’s disingenuous, pathetic and reeks of opportunism. As is opponents of the President latching on to him and his book.
So…you don’t really care whether his description of a White House out of control and a President who views intelligence simply as raw material for propaganda is accurate or not. You’re more concerned about former employees who write tell-all books.
Well, your priorities in life are certainly fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
So…you don’t really care whether his description of a White House out of control and a President who views intelligence simply as raw material for propaganda is accurate or not.
Did you need Scott Mclelland to tell you that?
Nope. We’ve been saying from the get go, and we’ve been called everything from Islamosfascists to Nazis to communists for pointing it out. Every bit of confirmation is balm to our weary souls.