Scott McClellan Rolls Over on the Bush Administration

UPDATED 11:57PM: McClellan is just "disgruntled."

The White House blasted former press secretary Scott McClellan Wednesday, claiming that his new book about President Bush and the Iraq war shows McClellan is a "disgruntled" former employee.

"Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement. "For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad — this is not the Scott we knew."

Excuse me, but we're ALL "disgruntled." And does anyone really know anyone, though?

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Hey, welcome back to the reality based community Mr. McClellan. Did you enjoy your sojourn into hell? What does it feel like to have your soul back?

Bush is depicted as an out-of-touch leader, operating in a political bubble, who has stubbornly refused to admit mistakes. McClellan defends the president's intellect -- "Bush is plenty smart enough to be president," he writes -- but casts him as unwilling or unable to be reflective about his job.

"A more self-confident executive would be willing to acknowledge failure, to trust people's ability to forgive those who seek redemption for mistakes and show a readiness to change," he writes.

In another section, McClellan describes Bush as able to convince himself of his own spin and relates a phone call he overheard Bush having during the 2000 campaign, in which he said he could not remember whether he had used cocaine. "I remember thinking to myself, 'How can that be?' " he writes.

How can that be? Only someone who knows that Bush really did use cocaine would dare write that. As I said last night to Blue Girl, how is it that McClellan isn't dead in a car wreck already?

We're not going to pimp the book from Scott McClellan, but we might enjoy making some rather derisive comments as more of these "revelations" come out.

Here is the most obvious comparison we can give you.
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Here's Karl Rove, the "architect," pretending there is no public record of what he did and claiming that McClellan sounds like a "left wing blogger:"



Here's David Gregory handing McClellan his ass back to him because Karl Rove is a proven liar:



Here's a little bonus video for your morning fun:



Yes, it was all about treason. And McClellan has gotten us closer to understanding what really went on and why there aren't guilty men at the end of a rope.

Mr. Waxman, Please Meet Mr. McClellan

Scott McClellan may be the man to bring down the Bush Administration.

For a former loyalist and former member of the Texas Mafia to speak out like this--if it holds up--is the biggest story of 2007. And when I say "holds up," I mean if he actually tells the truth about the things that Patrick Fitzgerald couldn't get at because he was stonewalled by Libby's lying.

From McClellan's new book:
The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself.

Unbelievable.

Scotty has decided to roll over and put everyone in jeopardy.

Will it hold up? I don't know. But for McClellan to say that he had "unknowingly passed along false information" is just another way of saying that he was duped into covering up a crime someone had committed. It's time for Chairman Waxman to ask Scotty to tell all, under oath, and to enter into the public record Scotty's testimony as evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors, and begin the process of impeachment.

Oh, and Mr. Fitzgerald? This is all you need to bring charges that you were unable to bring earlier. Get Scotty under oath, give him immunity--and let's fix this mess.