Yeah, right: “One of these days he and I are going to be rocking on chairs in Texas…”
“…talking about the good old days and his time as the Press Secretary. And I can assure you I will feel the same way then that I feel now, that I can say to Scott, job well done.”
— President Bush bidding a fond farewell to departing WH press secretary Scott McClellan, April 2006.
Well, I think we can safely say that the Bush/McClellan rocking chair session has been cancelled given the publication of McClellan’s splashy, turncoat tell-all.
One thing missing in all the coverage of McClellan’s fifteen minutes of book fame is proper reflection on how poorly served President Bush has been by his closest advisors.
McClellan was hired by Karen Hughes–the same aide who thought promoting Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was a brilliant idea.
Imagine how many more like McClellan are serving in the administration today, biding their time, waiting for their turn in the nutroots sun.
***
Reader Kevin B. e-mails what McClellan said in his press briefing on March 22, 2004 when asked about Richard Clarke’s book blasting the Bush Administration for 9/11 and CIA intelligence failures:
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, why, all of a sudden, if he (Richard Clarke) had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book.
Pot. Kettle.
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Its a shame when someone propels you to the spotlight and you find the need to stab them over and over again. Scott,if you didn’t agree with the policy why did you agree to implement it vocally? Did someone threaten you with an AK 47? No. They didn’t. Real men step up when they don’t agree, traitors sit back and write books about it years later. Punk.
I can not imagine how Bush can trust one single person surrounding him. I detest hypocrits and they seem to be knee deep in dc. Friends like these?
L
The position of presidential spokesman should be eliminated. The entire press secretary office should be dismantled. If the press doesn’t hear it from the horse’s north end, then it’s just a bunch of bull…
I realize the president is busy. But if he wants his message to go to the press, he will have to talk with the media himself.
ACHefty
I agree…… I suspect it is a character flaw in Pres. Bush to trust implicitly. Wasn’t it Reagan who said ” trust but verify?” I’d vet my mother if I knew I was in a situation that required true candor and honesty in thought and deed.
et tu McClellan????
These days the quickest way to make a buck is to write bush bashing books. Most will be filling landfills country wide.
If Bush himself had the least interest in governing, he would have figured out by now that the people surrounding him are “heckuvajob job” incompetents. He was elected to take responsibility. I want him to take it.
Conservatives have to take responsibility too. They (readers of this blog) put Bush in office. They deserve blame too.
i heard scott mcclellan wrote a book.
yawn.
It’s one thing to throw your ex-boss under the bus, it’s quite another to get behind the wheel and DRIVE OVER HIM.
I could never figure out how he got that job. He was utterly incompetent. Tony Snow brought a little class back to the position.
Lets face it, everybody knows that job is spin control. You can’t divulge everything.
I hope he enjoys his fame with moveon
I think the current (Perino) and former (Snow) press secretaries are/were exactly what the president needs. people who are personable, quick, and tough. McClellan sounds worse than Bush on a good day, and was timid. I have always believed that Bush’s biggest problem during the rough days of the war was McClellan’s inability to be articulate and jab back at reporters.
Perino’s even better than Snow in my opinion. She comes out swinging, and I love it.
I voted for him too.
For the most part I have to agree, but I blame the Democrats for putting Bush in office. Look at who they ran against him. Yep we sure know Gore would be responsible
LGM, so you are all for the democratic congress taking blame for thier failures over the last 2 years? Or is this new found responsiablity thing only for republicans?
McClellan is just trying to make a buck. I bet 99% of the book can not be verified, but the leftists will buy it hook line and sinker.
I know, lets hold impeachment hearings on bush. I would love to see the left try to prove thier lies on camera.
You think this guy would have made any money if he wrote a PRO Bush book? Lol.
McClellan is cashing in like the ho he is.
I will accept the blame ( if that is the term du jour) for having put the President in office. Now, lgm, I expect you to shoulder your share of the responsibility in the support of politicos and philosophies that have made this country and our culture weakened and less safe.
Oh? No such thing has happened? Of course, silly me to expect otherwise. ( sarc off)
I do fault Bush for being overly loyal.
Starting with the head of CIA Tenet back after 9/11, he kept this incompetent boob around and DECORATED him! He should have instead had Tenet’s head on a platter for his failure on 9/11. Same goes for the rebellious careerists at State, nomination of Harriet Myers, etc (the list goes on and on).
This personal ivy-league frat boy go-along get-along crap has destroyed the Bush presidency. That and his inability or unwillingness to use the inherent authority of the position of President to do anything close to thundering the truth to counteract MSM/Press lies and distortions. And whats worse is this decidedly NON-Conservative has been used to smear what conservatism is, by his backing of big government and refusal to reign in the pork fed Congress when the GOP was in power.
As I saw over at Rantburg.com, Bush had the opportunity to use what Teddy Roosevelt called “the bully pulpit”, and all Bush did was mumble.
He deserves all the trash he is taking about being one a bad president. The shame of it is, that his opponents Gore and Kerry were even worse.
Such a sad state we are in, but at least we are getting a few very important things right, like the war in Iraq.
I guess even a blind squirrelly finds an acorn now and then.
I also vote against gore and voted against kerry. LGM, NOMINATE BETTER CANDIDATES!!!!!
All that goodness. A Canadian Muslim defending Bush, see miracles do happen.
He lgm – how’s your DNC points coming along? Have you got enough to redeem them for a signed glossy 8×10 of Howard Dean? That’ll look so awesome at your nightstand.
Bust of luck, buddy!
(Remember, we’re laughing with you. Sure we are.)
Rumor has it that Ole Scotty is a little light in the loafers. It could very well be that his act of betrayal was a sellout to appease his fellow travelers.
To quote Jumping Joe Biden, “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Bush is not a great president, he is an average president when we needed a great president.
He’s just a rat.
May I play the Devil’s Advocate and ask this: What if this was Dee Dee Myers with a book dishing the dirt about the Clinton Regime’s doings? Wouldn’t we be hailing her in the same way the Kos Kidz have suddenly decided that McClellan isn’t a lying apparatchik peddling the Team Dubya lie du jour but a Fearless Truth-to-Power-Speaker? Just saying.
Another “Republican” turncoat. Big surprise. I’ll buy the book when it lands on the remainder table at Barnes & Noble and then use it to wrap fish.
At least part can be. For instance, it’s a verifiable fact that neither Rove nor Libby had anything to do with Valerie Plame’s blown cover (Novak has confirmed he got the information by an inadvertant disclosure from another member of the administration, and it was already readily available on Wilson’s Who’s Who entry), nor have they ever been accused of such by anybody outside the loony left (and lgm, of course). Ergo, we know that he is making up at least part of the book. He also claims to be able to read minds and determine what went on in meetings at which he wasn’t an attendee. Altogether it has more the flavor of payback for getting fired, and possibly a resume enhancer for getting hired by the MSM.
I remember watching Scott ‘up there’ answering questions. He seemed over his head, lacking the charm needed to deal with the press, and defensive. I think he knows he was mediocre, at best.
IMO, he was a disappointment and Karen Hughes, a flash in the pan. Karl Rove and Condi were good choices though, and not to forget Tony Snow!
We kept Kerry out of office. We deserve credit and a huge “thank you”.
Betrayal to make money? Only someone with an empty soul would do that.
txvet2, you have a point. But in the end this will just be another “shocking expose” like the 1000 others we have seen rushed to print in the last 7 years. All will be worm food the second bush is out of office and we will see a whole new stack of them with the new presidents name on it. The reason I don’t buy these books is because they are simply opinion hit pieces that rarely prove anything and whoes only real purpose its to make money of off the partisan hacks who readily agree with anything thier party comes up with.
Yeah right!
Hopefully, one of these days Bush will slap the snot out of that slimy little dirt bag.
I know . . . highly unlikely, but one can dream.
Ever go to Sam’s or Costco and see the books written by conservatives facing down or placed in the wrong section?? I enjoy turning them back to face-up. I’ll try to restrain myself from turning one author’s books face down!! tee hee
Kerry sure did make me sleepy.
I think DeeDee Myers was too busy drying out from all her alcohol based speeding and traffic violations.. to write a book……hmmm wait a sec…. I thought she DID write one?
I didn’t know there was a rating system. With Super Bad, Alright, Average, Above Average and Super Terrific. Just let me know what you meant by average?
The easiest thing to do is, for the failures who have never produced a single thing in their life to lay claim to the fruits of the labor of another.
The next easiest is to try to enhance your own miserable existence by attempting to diminsh the good work of your betters
mcclellan if the shoe fits….
#35, Average to me means that he is no lincoln but also he is no jimmy carter. His economic record is ok as is just about everything else. He has done ok considering the overwhelmingly hostile press and congresss. Ho hum average in most respects. I rate him about the same as clinton. The big difference was clinton had a very friendly press corps and no war. Both presidents had bad and good points both to me ended up being average presidents. Reagan was the last great one then JFK and FDR. The next president needs to step up and be a great president. So far its not looking good.
No news here. Another Republican leaves the team and complains about how awful they were. McClellan is one of a long line of people saying the same thing and you know that they are all lying.
Uh, lying now, that is. When they addressed us as part of the administration, they we are telling the truth. Honestly.
FDR???????? damn , I have to clean up my favorite beverage off the keys and screen.
FDR?
Well folks, if you ever want to learn what the term “burning bridges” means, look no further than Scott’s actions. What an absolute idiot.
From Anerican Thinker
MNUSMCDAVID, its an opinion, they are like a… noses, everyone has one.
Eisenhower wasn’t Super Terrific status?
sonofdy
fair enough…. some day I’ll explain mine on a more appropriate thread.
Must…. Remain…. Relevant….!!! (Now will someone give me a job as a talking head?)
/mcclellan
I have an idea,let’s line up behind lgm at the bookstore and NOT buy it.
Silkyinfamous,
You sound like you don’t think some presidents are better than others. Gezzz grow up.
Sambo, You have it correct, I was forced to make the assumption that the Press Secretary assignment for this sheepish, sweating, stuttering incompetent crumb had to be payback to someone that W thought he owed a favor. (Strayhorn) Apparently it was an association and not an alliance that drove poor decision making in electing to hire this traitorous boob. Giving aid and comfort to MoveOn and the KosKids is tantmount to an outright attack on America.
He was for solid reasons regarded as lousy by the Right.
So he paid the Democrats for a little loving in the coin they like best, anything that Bashes Republicans and especially this president.
But Bush again deserves a huge amount of the blame. These choices were made on his watch by people who were chosen by him.
He suffered from the same desire of his father, to at the end of the day be liked by everybody.
One of his main weaknesses, was either ego or naive belief that he could convince the liberal scum to work with him for the good of the country.
There isn’t enought charm in the world to change the mind of evil.
So what he said in his speech to Israel, could have been told to him way back at trying to appease the domestic version of evil people.
Yeah, we are responsible. I was guilty of voting for the lesser of two evils because that is what the Republican machine served up to us.
It won’t happen again.
Conservatism best defines my political philosophy. I’ll vote for conservative candidates whatever party they belong to. When the Republicans integrate conservatism into their very fiber they can count on me. Until then, they can go pound sand.
FWIW, I think, that while he’s been disappointing to me, the judgment of history will be relatively kind to Bush #43.
RINOs eating RINOs!
What a delicious idea!
Well alot on what makes a president is the other branches of government and his secretaries, so I find it hard to judge one person, because simply they’re not a king.
More to the point Bush II had a habit of keeping all the “best and brightest” from the CLINTON administration as holdovers instead of cleaning house when he assumed office.
I still remember the Transportation Secretary Norm Maneta refusing -until congress forced him- to allow pilots to be armed after 9/11.
The “War on Terror” president Bush II thought it was smarter to scramble an F-15 to shoot down a jetliner and kill evryone on board, than to let the pilots defend the cockpit from hijackers.
Expect the same nonsense if McCain takes office…
You may recall that 1) John Lehman said Clarke changed his public testimony from his private conversations with the 9/11 Commission and 2) they moved up the publication of Clarke’s book to coincide with his public testimony.
Scott McClellan = Richard Clarke. How am I to believe either when it appears that for them it is all about the money. Forget truth, honor, loyalty. Damn both of them.
McClellan epitaph:
Disraeli climbed a greasy pole to discover it’s lonely at the top.
McClellan rode a greasy slide to discover it’s only for the bucks.
Scott McClellan’s payback
This should be factored in and then follow the money in a few months.
Some of the “damning evidence” of SM I’ve heard of so far is pretty thin, IMHO. Bush told a supporter he really didn’t remember if he snorted coke. So what? That’s plausible. SM decided tears in Bush’s eyes after meeting with an injured soldier indicates second thoughts about going into Iraq. Huh? And he noticed Libby and Rove getting together in a meeting, and thinks that was suspicious. Double huh? If that’s the nature of this books then it’s mostly air.
Is betrayal of one’s former employer a McClellan family tradition or something? Seems to me that Gen. George McClellan did the same thing to Lincoln after Lincoln cashiered him for incompetence. (George) McClellan tried to get even by running against Lincoln as the Democrat presidential nominee.
(Proving that capitulation is an honored Dem tradition of long standing, McClellan ran on a platform of seeking a negotiated settlement that would have recognized the Confederate States of America.)
Cicero:
he does look a little like the little american Napolean doesn’t he?
My guess: the turd-coat got hisself a moonbat girlfriend he’s tryin’ to impress…
McClellan was the liberal press corps’ favorite Whack-a-Pubbie. They were openly sarcastic and dismissive of him, and he was utterly defenseless to spar with them. So they reveled almost sadistically in pummeling him daily. “Deer in the headlights” doesn’t come close to describing it.
Now, that same press corps will lionize his betrayal of the President’s trust. He’ll sell a few books. And then he’ll return to the trash bin of history.
The only thing that gets a bigger yawn out of me than Scott McClellan, is that Richard Clarke has been resurrected by the “news” shows again.
Who freakin’ cares?
Can an Abu Ghraib retrospective be far behind?
#62 Cicero
Well, we all know how big the moonbats are on recycling.
Can an Abu Ghraib retrospective be far behind?
speaking of Abu Grab…
off topic, but i saw today there’s an investigation into even further child molestation by U.N. “PeaceRapers”
in all likelihood, there were many MANY more innocent victims of these U.\N. creeps than the abuses at Abu…. how come we don’t see constant coverage and photos, stories, … (that’s a rhetorical question of course)
If you don’t like something, speak up. I know it’s hard sometimes but you gotta do it. I learned that lesson the hard way as a 19 y/o in the Army. Scott is a grown man but he always had that “deer in the headlights” look about him when giving his pressers.
Oh well, he’s the new darling of the left.
I really have battled with this but…… I beat up a portly kid that looked a lot like him when I was in third grade. I’m sorry, the trauma must have caused this!….. the kid would have had to be McClellan’s dad… yeah I’m that old.
Karen is from Austin…sounds like she’s had some “liberal creep” going on over the years. She started out as a mainstream journalist. Go figure!
It’s the dog-bites-man effect. UN Peacekeepers raping kids just isn’t news.
#9 & #10 are correct, McClellan was a loser in this position and that was painfully apparent while he was in the position. Bush should have fired him much earlier than he did, and now its just apparent to more people what a loser he is.
Its like the Jimmy Carter scenario, we had to suffer Carter for 4 years to get Reagan. So we had to suffer McClellan to get Tony Snow and Dana Perrino – light years better than McClellan. Anyone look to see who the publisher was? I have to think they drove a lot of the content before they signed the contract with him.
#24 – your DeeDee Myers analogy was executed by George Stephanopolous, he wrote what was heralded by the Right as a “tell all” by the Clinton Administration. It clearly didn’t “tell enough”.
I couldn’t care less about the book. All I know is that every time I saw him on TV, one thought went through my head…
“There is a man that curls up with his blankey and cries himself to sleep every night.”
I wonder what would happen if someone wanted to put up a statue of Ronald Reagan, or even George Bush.
I think everyone needs to step back on this one instead of going with a SINGLE reporters story on this. A single reporter got the 350 page book early and used 4 lines from it to state what Mr. McClellan book is all about, yet I have not read a single reporter asking Mr. McClellan what the comments were and in what context. I think this is going to be media created non-story. I will hold off opinion until the book gets released next Monday and I can read it or a reporter interviews Mr. McClellan personally and not put words in his mouth.
Notice the biggest sissy on the internet….YES….lgm….does his sissy boy seagull fly by…..and away he goes.
It seems the liberal species believes their opinion is fact.
It isn’t.
Who cares, they are all paid liars anyways so why get your under wear in a wad.
Chris Matthews is having a hernia over this. Disgusting. As for McClellan; a graverobber with zero grace to keep your reservations and misgivings to yourself.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I would like to go to a book signing so I can look that slime ball in the eye balls and tell him what I think of him. It wouldn’t be pretty.
I am struck by the horrible writing, as given in some of the salcious tidbits to which we’ve been given a peak.
He contradicts himself so many times that the reader can’t possibly keep track of how he really feels: Is Bush an outright liar or not? Is his memory conveniently vague, as McClellan says for political gain, or is Bush trying to remember something that is truly difficult? What’s the stupid business about whether or not he tried cocaine? Who the he** cares?? Please. McClellan should be glad he didn’t work under the Clinton presidency, or he’d wind up Fosterized.
Idiot.
Sounds like a sissy to me. What’s he do for a living now??
Anyone? Beuhler??
He got shitcanned. Now he’s mad.
F him.
Yup, you just can’t get good help these days.
Of course that might have included saying away from the belief that his winning elections was a “mandate” versus some adherence to more parts of article four of the Constitution and blocking the out of control spending not to mention the un-conservative values of his own party that coincidentally he lead down the path to ruin.
Neocon or bust…bust.
Wonder what happened to the price of oil today?
It’s fair to say the same of Bush and his administration’s service to the American people. We deserved far better than this compassionate conservative has given.
Bit boy, your parents deserve better than you.
Maybe Newt Gingrich or Bill Forstchen can help me out. I’m scratching my head at all the comments coming out regarding Scott McClellan’s new book. I have not read the book and will withhold comment until (or if) I read the book. Today, I see Nancy Pelosi has come out in total agreement with the book so widely talked about in the media. The media is showing their bias like I’ve never seen before, and that’s saying a lot because ever since the election in 2000, it’s been blaringly on display. For instance, today I was watching the local NBC news channel. They broke to a “reporter” covering Washington who immediately said “excuse the smile on my face……” and then he went on to how Scott proves that Bush lied us into Iraq.
The question to Speaker Gingrich or Mr. Forstchen is how many advanced copies of the books do the Authors get? If I can ask another, would Nancy have an advanced copy of the book?
I really hope Nancy had an advanced copy of the book because if she doesn’t, or hasn’t even read the book, then that would be extremely frightening to me to have a political leader be in “Total Agreement” for something they haven’t even seen.
Just wondering.
You remember David Brock’s “The Real Anita Hill”, the point man for all things right-wing. Then he’s like, oops. I was WAAAAY off! And Arianna. From Newt-admirer to Huffpo creator. And now Scott Mc. THE White House spokesman. Literally. And now he’s had a change of heart. All no less bizarre than a clip from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. Who were these people in the past. What happen to their “convictions”. Apparently the most important thing to them is to be on the front lines, to be in the limelight. Whose side they’re on, that’s secondary.
I stand by my vote and don’t feel the least bit ashamed of it.
What were my alternatives? Gore? Kerry?
I’d cast the same votes again in a heartbeat.
At first I thought this guy was going to reveal some secret about the Bush White House. But to hear him ramble about poor little VALERIE PLAME??? LOL! Scott is not stabbing someone in the back, snitching, or whistleblowing- he is just lost in BDS make-believe land.
LGM I want you to know there are many of us conservatives who want you leftists to take responsibility for all your hate-America, communist utopia, Godess Gaia BS and intend to make you eat it by voting for Baraka in November. We are sick of the slow bleed your philosophy has had on our contry and are ready to finish this once and for all by allowing Baraka and the congress to reaveal their true intentions and destroy the Democrat party once and for all. So your day is coming.
This is slightly off topic – but I just really wanted to say it, so I’ll say it quickly.
Even if you don’t want to vote for McCain, remember that there are some VERY IMPORTANT Congressional and local elections that you need to be voting in!!!
Write in whomever you want for POTUS, but please, please do not sit at home, abandoning some very crucial races.
Okay, I’m done. Thanks!
Yep. I heard them talking on Fox & Friends about this book this morning. One of the pundits talked about him airing his conscience out.
Now, I’m not the biggest fan of GWB with some of his decisions and runaway spending traits but, like McClellan uttered himself….,
Watch it, Scott. That stuff might rub off on you.
I want something too, lgm. But, if I say it here, I am sure to get banned from Michelle’s site.
However, being the intellectual mathematician that you are, I’m sure you can put 2 + 2 together to figure it out.
The bush administration is what it is, period.
Loyalty, honor, and dedication is a personal choice.
McClellan is a traitor.
#87, “The bush administration is what it is, period.” Meaning they are war criminals?
BTW
Every once in a great while I send President Bush a one or two line email thanking him for his leadership and a brief expression of my heartfelt thanks for his dedication to our national security and his vision of the future regarding OUR future.
I am not one to abandon a man who I voted for and who I feel despite any drawbacks has consistently stood fast, hard, and strong on principles that I completely agree with.
If you want to send the President a note of encouragement and thanks for his service to this great nation, then you can write to him here:
comments@whitehouse.gov
It’s like my attorney tells me “that’s hear-say, we’re not going to court with that!” Where are any facts from this weenie. This is what publishing has come to?.If it sounds like it might have been said, or might have happened, publish it.
What a vindictive weenie!
It’s often preferable to engage one’s brain before one hits submit comment
Sanddog #91, that’s logical. Liberals can’t understand logic or facts. They believe in manufatured lies that are told over and over and over and over until enough of the lemmings catch on and start repeating the lie as truth. Then they try to debate and when they are debunked, they call people names like “war criminal”.
They are an odd animal.