Bloodthirsty Liberal

I’ve had my say on “Naughty” Scotty McClellan.

Let’s print a guest editorial:

“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…. 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.”

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“In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you…. No doubt you will ‘clean up’ as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, ‘Biting The Hand That Fed Me.’ Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years.”

[The reader] assures McClellan that he won’t read the book — “because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job”

“That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively…. You’re a hot ticket now but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?”

He signs the email simply: “BOB DOLE”

It’s legit: he wrote it. And in predicting a devoted response from the liberal media, he called it, too.

As a candidate for President, Bob Dole was a washout. But as a man, he could give lessons. And Scott McClellan could use ‘em.

UPDATE
Want to see a fat man sweat? Me neither, but he’s about to start:

Former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan should testify under oath on Capitol Hill about his explosive new book in which he sharply criticizes his old boss, a Democratic congressman said Friday.

Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Florida, said McClellan, who served as the president’s press secretary before leaving the White House in 2006, would be able to provide valuable insight into a number of issues that the House Judiciary Committee is investigating.

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Wexler said he did not know whether McClellan would fight a subpoena to testify before the committee, but suggested that any White House claims that McClellan should be barred from testifying due to executive privilege would be invalid because McClellan had put much of the information in the public domain with book and multiple television appearances.

McClellan has not said whether he would be willing to to testify before Congress.

Like he’d have a choice. The bright lights, the flashbulbs, the cameras, the hyena-pack of reporters—he’ll be praying for Bush to invoke executive privilege like a cripple prays for the use of his legs (or arm, in Sen. Dole’s case).

UPPERDATE
People are beginning to ask questions about who’s underwriting this media blitz. The per diem meal money alone would run into the high four figures.

UPPESTDATE
Sounds like he’s happy to sing for his supper. Given his appetite, I’d expect something the length of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.