McClellan whacks Bush, White House - Politico.com

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.

Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95):

• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.

• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.

• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”

• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.

• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

Well, it’s about time, not that any of this hasn’t already been speculated upon until it’s worn completely out, and that makes me wonder, is McClellan doing an expose’ or a CMA??

CMA being ‘cover my ass’…

He is bound to have had at least some insider knowledge you would think, or maybe not, perhaps he was deliberately kept in the dark, plausible deniability, someone has to be able to speak to the nation and keep a straight face…

He writes, for example, that after Hurricane Katrina, the White House “spent most of the first week in a state of denial,” and he blames Rove for suggesting the photo of the president comfortably observing the disaster during an Air Force One flyover.

Oh c’mon Scott, a state of denial?? More like a state of utter confusion, that’s pretty much been the status quo for the Bush administration and that’s where  Bush has taken the entire GOP…

I really do appreciate McClellan coming out with a book that addresses the faux pas we know as the Bush administration, I hope it’s done in total candor, an honest observation from a real insider, someone that could document the failings of Bush and Company would be a welcome breath of fresh air, but you can bet that the Bush Bots are already lining up to throw rocks at McClellan, how dare he speak ill of The Bush…

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