Bush is not an evil man, but we live in a world that calls evil good and good evil. No wonder our children are so confused.

What is peculiar is that so many “mavericks” despise the truly maverick path of defending the righteous man.

These boys aren’t just ANYBODY. Their family has paid some heavy dues.

Rove says that McClellan’s criticism of FEMA and the Katrina fiasco is unjustified, but Rove needs to answer what he knows about Oliver North’s refusal to answer Texas Representative Jack Brooks question concerning the altered purpose of FEMA under GWHB when Brooks zinged him at the Iran-Contra hearings.

McClellan was a Bush insider when Joe Allbaugh, Governor Bush’s chief of staff, was trying to put the lid on the Texas’ Funeral Gate scandal which leaned on the appointment of Dick Cheney hunting partner Harry Whittington as the governor’s “enforcer”. The key Funeral Gate company, Houston’s Service Corporation Inc or SCI, was later “selected” as THE funeral company for the Katrina victims.

McClellan was also aware of the Scooter Libby connection to Plame’s outing, with Richard Armitage taking the heat away from Rove and accepting the role of “loose lips Armitage”. Armitage took one for the Prez’s brain having dodged an earlier bullet…..one during the Perot/GHWB presidential showdown.

Perot had teamed up with the most decorated Vietnam War Vet, Col Bo Gritz, to out Arimtage’s connection to the Iran-Contra style drug smuggling in Burma’s Golden Triangle. Gritz’s video of the outing is available on the web and though his whistle blowing was shut out of the mainline media, his story was told on the Morton Downey Jr. program.

That, you may NOT know, brought on retribution from the Bush camp toward Mr. Perot and his family. He withdrew from the race citing threats to his children while the media spun the Perot decision as a the irrational personality of another Texas meglomaniac.

Is McClellan looking for his fifteen minutes of fame? I think he is trying to distance himself from an eternity of infamy.

Walker Freeman

Which still doesn’t make me very sympathetic.

i think mcclellan and others are obviously motivated by money and probably shouldn’t be allowed to make money on these types of books (or capped at something like a year’s salary at the whitehouse job they used to have ;) … but the bigger story i think is just how burned he feels about being lied to by his own guys inside the whitehouse. he was a dupe and a mouthpiece for these guys. they lied to his face and sent him out there to repeat the words, and he believed in them. that’s why he is fairly embittered now, i would say. you can’t fault the guy for not being loyal - in fact, you could fault him for being too loyal, for not stepping down the moment he realized he was just a dupe and was shoveling lies.

But as these things have been reported, they’ve also often been dismissed as the ranting of “Bush derangement syndrome” suffering liberals, so it is noteworthy that McClellan has decided to spill the beans, however slimy he’s being in doing so.