Bob Dole goes freakin’ nuclear on Scott McClellan
“There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues,” Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning. “No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.”
It gets better. Nicely done, Senator.
UPDATE: Commenter Iamsaved cautions “Don’t be surprised if the money trail [for McClellan's book] leads to George Soros or one of his ilk”.
Oh, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
Allah’s got some more questions about the book’s financing.
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The old boy has some life in him yet.
He really lets him have it. Cheers to you, Mr. Dole.
Ha! Well done.
Very well done, Mr. Dole. I totally agree with him. And best of all, Dole is right.
Wood!
Shed!
Rock chalk Jayhawk! (and you too, K-State…)
Rented!
Mule!
I think this just great. Good for you Bob. Guess Bob and Scott won’t be ’settin on the porch together soon’. Too bad the President can’t say the same thing, but he can’t. I can’t recall jm making a statement on this yet, has he?
L
Oh snap! No he didn’t!
…yes, he did.
I sort of agree. When McClellan realized how totally bankrupt the current Republican administration was, the brave thing would be to shout it out loud.
But he came from a culture of cowardice, where people are trained to not face up to their shortcomings and blame others instead.
Just look at Dick Cheney who growls “they haven’t the stomach for it” when asked about people who want to end the war. Of course, Cheney opted out of joining the army in the Vietnam era because he had ‘other priorities’. Talk tough, but hide when things get rough.
In that culture of cowardice, McClellan inaction seems very logical.
Love it!!! That just made my day completely. Thank you, Mr. Dole, for refusing to roll over like so many of our politicians.
Dole is a sharp guy. I still remember his debate against Clinton and he brought the house down with laughter because he was so quick on the uptake.
Good for him - I miss his wit.
Remember about a year ago when Dole wrote some innoucous e-mail to Rush Limbaugh and the the MSM portrayed it as Dole taking Limbaugh to the woodshed? How do you think they’ll portray this letter?
Now if we could only get the lame RNC on some of those little blue pills …
No, mewling filth, this is not about Cheney. You will not make it about Cheney. You will not use this for your own agenda, mewling filth. LIberal, you are the most sickening vermin. Liberal, you are the most disgusting, mewling filth.
McClellan didn’t just become a weasil. I think it is time to check on leaks from the white house mole.
Oh yes, I know the kind. I refer to them as “Girlie Men” as I work with a few myself.
Does anyone, on the left or right, actually respect a man who defends switching sides by claiming, “I really didn’t believe or mean what I was saying anyway?”
Contrast a man like Ronald Reagan with others like Scott McClellan or Richard Clarke.
Reagan spent a career detailing his political philosophies and the exact moment when the democrat party “left him.”
McClellen and Clarke have permanent records that directly contradict their later actions and supposed reasons for those actions.
Finally, I will always reserve my harshest criticism for the Bush Administration’s hiring or holding over former officials who weren’t on the same page to begin with. History proves that this doesn’t only hurt the administration, it tarnishes the entire party in an already competitively-charged environment.
I’d like to buy Bob Dole a beer.
pwn3d!
gribble, McClellan is a hypocrite. He chided and lambasted two former White House staff members after their departure and subsequent books about the Bush Administration…low and behold he steps out and does the same thing. On top of that, you seem to think that inaction is worthy of praise. Where exactly do people like you come home… are you hatched?
Bush’s mistake was that too often he valued loyalty over competency, and with a crapweasal like McClellan, he ended up with neither.
As for Dole, well done. He showed more intestinal fortitude in one email than the most of the GOP establishment has in several years.
Bob Dole for President!
Is that GRIBBLE or DRIVEL?
Uh, can you say, Bridges Burned?
The only positive thing that I can think of that has come out of this, is the stark contrast between the current administration’s former collegues, and those of the Clinton administration. This former ally of Bush is actually alive, and able to write a book.
What interesting things do you think Vince Foster, and Ron Brown could have penned?
That put a smile on my face! Is it too late to get him to replace McCain? Maybe Pat Buchanan on the ticket as well?
30 pc of silver. Libtards don’t care whether Obama, Rodham, Pelosi, McClellend etc etc etc etc are hypocrites as long as they are liberal.
Liberals have no morals.
I wonder if Scott McClellan is related to General George B. McClellan of the Civil War. Sounds like they are cut from the same cloth.
Don’t be surprised if the money trail leads to George Soros or one of his ilk.
Congressman Conyers is already making rumblings about a Judicial Committee hearing and I’ll bet Henry “Nostildamus” Waxman won’t be far behind.
When will these people get busy with the nation’s business?
Thirteen28, LIBTARDS value neither loyalty nor competence. Libtards value IDEOLOGY POWER and your MONEY.
Well, there is your answer - juvenile insults, the true sign of the coward. Don’t respond logically, just call someone a name. A perfect execution of the ‘attack and don’t respond’ mentality.
And by the way, I didn’t make it ‘about Cheney’, McClellan did. He is definitely in the book.
Yes.
iamsaved. The money trail DOES go directly to SOROS.
B. Dole takes Scotty boy to the woodshed (no Viagara pun intended)
Spank. Hats off to Bob Dole. When is Rove’s book due out?
I’m completely with Mister P #15:
McClellan is a crapweasel of the worst kind, adding to that he’s a skunk, a creep and a coward all wrapped into one. I can smell him all the way from California.
Wise-man, unless you are joking, you are not WISE.
Only a libtard would trust a man who has proven himself to be untrustworthy and disloyal. Even a LIBTARD can see that McClellan is either DISLOYAL, GREEDY or DISHONEST.
Pick 2. Or 3.
McClellan spoke for the Bush adminstration. He was either honest then or not.
If what he is saying now is true, and not just opinion, then he was DISHONEST THEN.
Or he is dishonest now.
Libtards don’t care. As long as he is doing their bidding now.
This case is clear, and again…even a LIBTARD can see what’s going on here.
I’ll give you a hint. $cott McClellan.
Get it?
Funny thing is that libs wouldn’t have recognized nor known who $cott McClellan was if they had bumped (pun intended) into him in a bath house.
Now he is their hero. Along with Hugo Chavez and Fidel.
Rob, you do realize that Buchanan agrees with Scotty boy’s basic premise regarding Iraq, right?
myman, c’mon, you can do better than that. gribble seems pretty sharp. Take him on directly with facts and logic and let’s see what you’ve got. Pretty unimpressed so far, although, your use of the word “mewling” was not too bad.
You mean as opposed to all of the Democrats who defended the Clintons as the very peak of truthiness… and continued to do so until they decided that Obama was now the person to carry that mantle?
Are they cowardly?
1996. Been there. Done that. Didn’t have much to show for it.
That sums up my thoughts on McClellan. Yeah, the Bush Administration is a bunch of crooks, and McClellan was right to expose them — but if he knew that then, he should have quit rather than help them!
they certainly found the right low hanging fruit to exploit.
But, hats off to Sen. Dole. I don’t know if it was an extra blue pill that day or what but he let McClellan have it.
We need the whole Republican party to state this also. What a world of difference it would make. Unfortunately, our party is made up of the same spineless mess as McClellan.
Now if only the other Republicans would grow a pair and go after Pelosi for her vile statement about Iran being the reason for the surge working.
Hey Bob, is that pen still smokin’?
dakine,
gribble never saw fit to respond to this quote from 30 pcs of silver:
How can anyone believe anything McClellan says, especially when Feith’s book about the same administration, from a man more closely involved in policy decisions than McClellan, stands in such stark contrast to what McClellan wrote. Feith’s book is replete with official documentation supporting his claims. From what I read, that sort of thing is lacking from McClellan’s book.
If you jack the thread to something like this, then someone might feel compelled to inject something about Bill Clinton and his draft-dodging. See how easily these things can just balloon out of control?
Where would that get us? Instead, we try not to veer off course and stick with the opportunstic book Scott McClellan and how, suddenly now, he has a conscience.
Yashmak, I hear ya, and I’m not defending McClellan’s hypocrisy. I’m simply calling out myman’s rather lame response to gribble.
Not only that what about John McCain…hmmm?
And there are those who are still willing to back him in say the NRA, despite his connections to Soros
I wonder why Bob Dole didn’t go nuclear like this in the 1996 campaign against Clinton?
My head is shaking still….
However miserable McClellan may be, those who have not repented — Rove, Cheney, and Bush himself — are worse.
Today’s Friday!
Blast from the past!
You again? Don’t you have innocent college students to indoctrinate with your liberal ideology or something?
lgm lies, kids will die.
I was listening to Ari Fleischer on a radio talkshow one day this week, talking about McClellan. Besides saying how disappointed he was in this book, he noted an interesting point about how McClellan’s position as a deputy press secretary, during the time of going to war and after, and how that position dealt with domestic issues and he was not in the meetings on foreign policy.
Barry, LGM (little girlie man) is a fruitcake. In the twisted mind of those dependant on government, THEIR OPINION is FACT.
If they disagree with your or your policies. You are evil. PERIOD.
They don’t make their judgements based on fact. If you agree with them, it’s okay to be a RACIST or it’s okay to be a KKK GRAND POOBAH, or it’s okay leave a woman at the bottom of a lake in your car. It’s no big deal to lie to grand juries or to spray spoo on your 23 year old intern. As long as you have a liberal ideology. If you don’t have a liberal ideology you are evil.
Here is the new LIBTARD campaign slogan.
GIMME GIMME GIMME.
LGM (little girlie man) could never make a living without government. It’s his crutch.
It appears McClellan received an open hand slap to the face from former Senator Dole that should sting a bit should he still have any sense of personal honor running through his body, but I doubt it after what has come out on this hit job on the current Administration. I hope it leaves a mark!
Don’t you just love how previous posters were talking about the reasons NOT to threadjack because of how out of control it can get and low and behold, our own trusty LGM pops in with a threadjack. This guy is like a parrot, but instead of Polly want a cracker, he just says but Bush, Cheney, Rove, blah blah blah are so much worse. Proving not only does LGM have no original thoughts, but that he’s illiterate as well.
Pretty sad when the parrot’s more intelligent than a (ahem) college professor.
This isn’t about if other people are worse than McClellan. What he did was skeezy and wrong. End of story. If someone comes to a different conclusion, they need to look at their own morality.
Perhaps Bob Dole’s Viagara therapy is finally kicking in…
lgm is a spambot.
Like I said. LGM (little girlie man) cannot make it in the private sector. He isn’t smart enough. Has it ever occurred to any of you that SOCIALISTS like Litte Girlie Man are socialists because they need to be? I mean, without the Goverment and tax money to pay Little Girlie Man, he’d be SUPER SIZING your lunch, and by this time next year, he’d be night french fry manager.
- lgm
Of course, since it seems McClellan’s book is most likely opportunism rather than fact (considering he wasn’t even involved in the policy decisions he ‘tells all’ about), there’s not much basis for claiming there’s a sin worth repenting.
If you are indeed a math professor, I have difficulty understanding the frequent logical breaks in your reasoning. Or is it not about reason and rationality for you anymore, only about hate for this administration?
I’ll finish my comments on this topic with a quote from McClellan’s book, after which I’ll be curious to see if lgm still thinks it’s such a good/important thing:
McClellan writes in his memoirs. “I consider him (Bush)a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.”
So much for those who wish this were a ’smoking gun’ to validate the ‘Bush Lied People Died’ meme.
LGM:
I usually disagree with you, but frankly on this one I do agree with you.
The nation was told that Saddam had WMDs (even after the Gulf War 1), and that this guy would likely give them to terrorists to get back at the US (I agree with the previous conclusion) and that Saddam had contacts with Al Qaeda (I agree with that position)…what was convoluted was whether or not a discernable proto-miltary collusion to actually commit to an action (like a weapon or money transfer) could be proven to quell likely critics. Yes Saddam would have been likely to have done it, but we need more than gut feeling.
It is clear to me in hindsight and even with the 9/11 Iraq War circus investigations, that Bush didn’t have enough hard proof aside from Saddam’s intransigence with the UN (documented)to have gone ahead with the action.
Instead of admitting his colossal goof, he changed the mission to “we are here to help the Iraqi people”-something even he knew the American public would not go along with.
This has created the latest enviroment of mistrust…like Bill Clinton before him, George Bush I and II are commited globalist neocons willing to push their agenda on our backs.
What frightens me is that at some point wan American President will have to deal with a real WMD threat…and the question will he or she be believed??
Am I a “peace at any price” person?… absolutely not.
I do disagree with those that say now that we are there, to just “cut and run”..that to me would make things worse than they already are….All the while we are letting Iran -a clear US enemy have nukes in de facto terms.
I do not however want this kind of misleadership in the whitehouse again.
And I do remember how our vietnam vets were mistreated after they came home and I will not be aprt of any campaign to disparage or patronize them or those who come home from Afghanistan or the Iraq fronts.
Actually this has created the best environment of trust. Has Bush run away from the mess he’s created or has he stood up and done his best to try to make the situation right… sacrificing his political legacy (and possibly his party) in the process?
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But oddly enough, numerous foreign intelligence agencies agreed with ours on the matter of WMD’s, and Congress obviously agreed that we had enough evidence, since they voted to approve. . . .
Hell, letters from Saddam to his generals indicate that even HE thought he had them.
Too bad Dole is such a sissy he wouldn’t “Go Nuclear” on Bill Clinton.
What a freaking loser he is!
I always thought Bob Dole was too nice when it counted. At least he told McClellan where to stick it! I wish he would have talked like this when he ran against BJ Clinton.
I’m with you lovetorumba…great post.
Way to go, Bob Dole. I think this story has no legs and Scott M’s 15 minutes will be over after Meet the Press on Sunday.
I remember cringing as I watched his press conferences; he was terrible. The good news is that wherever Scott M. goes, he takes himself with him. He’ll always be terrible and no-one will have any use whatever for him once this blows over. Hope has a good financial plan because he just cooked his own goose.
BSR
I hope that there is more backbone in the national GOP than just Bob Dole. I have to admit that I sure didn’t expect it from him though.
Of course, now McCain will tell Dole to shut up because McCain doesn’t want to “run negative”
The best part I’ve heard of yet is how McClellan still blames Rove and Libby for “Plamegate” when he probably knew from the very beginning it was Armitage! McClellan gives Judas a good name.
little girly man (lgm) is a math teacher???
Another reason to homeschool.
Lonely Gelding Mathematician?
Fixed.
Something tells me he didn’t need the blue pills.
I don’t have a DOG in this fight unless it’s my Country and my troopers who are fighting for her…
???? What WMD was it that WASN’T used by Iraq to annihilate the Kurds?!!!!!!!!
Just asking……
I don’t like these tell all books no matter what party it happens to be about. I didn’t waste one thin dime on anything that came out of the Clinton White House. Generally these people have an ax to grind and they’re just going to do it.
Christian Soldier, I guess they did miss the WMDs that were used on the Kurds but it was in the past and the fact that President Clinton and PM Tony Blair thought they were there really means nothing, does it?
terrig..You’re right on…thanks
The TRUTH - for some - is invisible.
I told folks to hurry up once, and had to go back to compassion training.
I guess old Bob will not have to go, while I have to be carful. Teachers pet, I reckon.
After a life of service, Senator Dole performs one more vital one for the nation.
He outed a crapweasle for being a complete crapweasle. He didn’t dress it up in PC terms, but described this horrible, disgusting, little, little man for the record.
Thank you, yet again, Senator.
I read that McClellan was given on the job counseling for his poor performance in dealing with the WH Press Corps. This was in a column on NewsMax a few days ago. McClellan was told that he did not present the facts accurately to the WH Press Corps reporters on a number of occasions. I also saw a headline about Pres Bush’s friendship with McClellan’s family and how that may have led to Pres Bush’s decision to hire him, and ultimately his reluctance to fire him. Bottom line: McClellan is angry about his dismissal for poor performance and wrote the material a while ago to get revenge because he feared no on else would hire him if he was FIRED from the WH Press Office.
Here we go again…why is it that you can so easily believe the lie that there were no weapons, but find it impossible to know that there were and are still weapons there? Once again, a threadjack, and whatthehelldoesithavetodowith McClellan/Dole, but really? How can you believe that there were no weapons?
Bob Dole: the sound of one hand clapping.
Good for Bob Dole—a great man. Thank you for your service and telling it how it is in this spineless political era.
Regarding Soros, no surprise considering the timing.
Don’t know if many of you saw the HBO series, John Adams. In the first episode there was a man who was tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail. I think that might be too good of treatment for McClellan.
Are we talking about the WMD’s we sold them during the iraq/russian conflict? We knew they had them all along…didn’t know Hussein (Saddam) destroyed them. But let’s face it: we did not need to go into Iraq. To this day I believe the only reason we went was because GWB held a grudge: “He tried to kill my dad”. Congress was showed the evidence a very controlling administration wanted them to see. I love my country, I support my president, but hate being lied to and manipulated.
“Imagine” …
It was President Dole instead of President Clinton …
libocrat, While I always find your post to be……..oh somewhat……simplistic, I am enthralled by your fascination with Scott McClellan’s sexuality. I don’t know if Scott is a homosexual or not, nor do I care, but I don’t really see where it affects this conversation, like you apparently do. Maybe you can explain in terms that I would understand, say like gay, straight, or homosexual, rather than the use of terms such as ” bumped into him in the bathhouse” or “light in the loafers” as you seem to prefer. And please explain how one’s sexuality would effect one’s truth telling ability.
As for me I’m going to wait until I have read the book, to form an opinion on it.
I always enjoyed Ari at the podium, but when McClellan showed up I never had a comfy feeling that he was genuine. However, that doesn’t mean we should disregard everything he has to say, only that we have to take it with a salt-lick. After all the RINO-annigans this administration has pulled, I really don’t give a rat’s patoot whether we have an inauguration tomorrow or in January 2009. If McClellan’s book brings out some truth AND consequences, then bring it on.
Get em Bob.
This is just delayed separation anxiety. They managed to leave the nest to go to college, but taking the next step and actually having to work for people that expect results is just too difficult, so they follow the only course that allows them to stay in their comfort zone.
Skywise and Yashmak
I concede that bush hasn’t run away-unlike LBJ did in ‘68 with respect to Vietnam, so he definitely has balls there. I also concede that reports of his WMD stockpile were reported not only here but abroad…still with all the intelligence agencies we’ve got now…how could they screw this up?
Moreover, Bush completely underestimated or did not have a grasp of what the aftermath of Saddam would be like…this is clear.
I wonder if some of these reports from our “allies” was put out to dupe us and destroy our credibility.
Yes his legacy and that of the Republican party is on the line and only time will tell if the iraq War was mere hubris as LGM believes, the american version of Gallipoli, or another front of a longer War on Terror.
More to the point he should have figured on Iran and Syria (ala Cambodia and Laos) supplying weapons to insurgents which would have required us to honestly go into Iran and Syria as well.
On the other hand the Dems who went along with Bush’s decision and now back away from it, had best beware the same can happen to them too.
What a traitor.
I am still withholding judgement.I ask the same questions as many others.
I would like to see these questions answered:
1) Who paid him off?
2) How much was he or will he be paid?
3) How was he paid off and at what time frame?
4) Why do the excrepts of the book I have seen sound exactly like engineered lefty talking points?
5)When will he face Rove, if he speaks truth he should hold his own, if not Rove will mop the ceiling with him.
The word Bob was looking for is “parasite”.
Yes indeed Senator, nicely done. One more harrah from an old citizen soldier.
If Dole had shown this wit and fire during his Presidential runs, cigars not be joke material and we would never be asked what is, is.
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Who would ever have expected to see me applauding for Bob Dole of all people?
IF this is the sort of sharpness he had online, why didn’t he show it when he was running for office.
Why, Oh why, do the Republicans feel so obliged to emasculate themselves in public?
Fixed it.
Go Mizzou!
Good Job Bob, it needed to be said and you said it.
To heck with the war injury… Bob Dole can still deliver a helluva punch!
Bob Dole’s castigation of McClellan was a rare and refreshing breeze in the static atmosphere of our PC culture.
Maybe if the Republican party had a few more like him it wouldn’t be looking at the possibility of extinction in November.
Could someone PLEASE tell them that George W. Bush is not only not running again, but is Constitutionally forbidden from doing so and thus, all this continuing mess of “Hit Jobs” that seems to have no end is pretty much pointless and only serves to, in effect, amount to nothing more than “Preaching to the Choir”, as the people who buy these things are already convinced of the things that are “revealed” within the pages?