McClellan

Scott McClellan’s book, What Happened, is creating quite a stir. .I guess because it’s by an “insider.” It can’t be because it’s telling us anything we didn’t already know. Bush/Cheney et al “catapaulted the propaganda” to lead us into the “war” with Iraq, Bush is basically incurious, he doesn’t reflect much on what he’s doing, he doesn’t like to revisit decisions already made, thinks one can only be a great President if he has a war, wanted to finish something his father started, ran the White House as if it were in a continual campaign mode, and so on. Anyone who has been paying attention already knows this stuff. But McClelland’s verification is, indeed, quite a blockbuster. No one seems to know his motivation for finally coming clean about all this. It would never occur to any of the Brafia that he might just have a guilty conscience (as none of the others seem to have any conscience at all). Maybe he is just pissed off about the way he was treated. Maybe he’s just in it for the money. Maybe his publisher pushed him into it. Maybe, maybe, maybe, what does it matter. He’s obviously telling the truth about this unbelievably rotten administration and giving us some of the reasons for its rottenness. I haven’t read the book yet and quite likely won’t read it because having listened to it described in endless detail today I think I know what it says. I may have to read it just to satisfy my endless and still unsatisfied curiosity about the Gannon/Guckert matter. Why, that is, was a known male prostitute given more or less free run of the White House on occasions when there was not ostensible reason he should have been there. I have heard rumors that it was McClellan himself that might have been responsible. I wonder if he mentions this in his book. If anyone reads the book please let me know if this strange episode is mentioned (otherwise I might actually have to read it myself). McClellan also reports that Bush doesn’t remember if he used cocaine or not, which he finds strange. I find it strange, too, but perhaps Bush was never sober long enough to remember most of what he did. I had not known that McClellan had been with Bush in Texas and went with him to the White House. They were friends and McClellan must know him pretty well by now. All this does for me is remind me that Bush is probably a marginally retarded jerk who had (has) no interest in governing or in the citizenry, and is only interested in power and how he can use it to transfer money from the taxpayers to his corporate backers and cronies. Good job McClellan! I hope you make a lot of money because you’ll probably never find another job.

John McCain seems to be setting some kind of record for having the worst candidacy ever. Now, having had several of his advisors already resign because of their corporate lobbying (for some of the worst people on the planet), it turns out that his senior economic advisor is Phil Gramm. At the very moment Gramm is advising him on economic policy he is working for one of the Swiss Banks that is involved in the mortgage scandal (a scandal brought about through Gramm’s help in deregulating the industry). This is the same John McCain who railed against lobbyists and their role in government, while at the same time involved with them up to his eyeballs. It turns out the “Straight Talk Express” is more like the “Forked Tongue Express.” For me, the McCain candidacy can only be summed up as simply laughable.

And speaking of laughable, that is about the status of Clinton’s campaign as well. It would be entirely laughable if it were not threatening to destroy the Democratic party. If she does not get out in June and takes her whining to the convention in Denver it will be apparent that her motive really is to doom Obama for a chance to run in 2012. I used to admire her and thought she was even sort of inspirational, now I think of her (and Bill) as basically despicable, with thoughts only of themselves and absolutely no shame in pursuing her unabashed ambition.

LKBIQ:
“Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices, so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.”
Jonathan Swift