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Posted at 6:53am on Jun. 20, 2008 Darth Vadar...dream killer in a "hybrid office"....HEH!

By Jaded

My, my, my, It appears that our esteemed Vice President Dick Cheney (Darth Vadar) has finally killed the dreams of ankle biter Henry Waxman and the fleas that follow him....netroots.

That's right, as is their (Democrats) style Waxman has admitted defeat in his fishing expedition of the Vice President's records...well he had to a judge said so..heh. It would appear that not only is Cheney NOT the first to say his office is a hybrid you can actually go back to JFK and see it's nothing new.....thats right JFK a Democrat.

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Posted at 4:19pm on Jun. 12, 2008 Gov Jindal - Stay in Louisiana

By jonb

Gov Jindal -

Don't desert Louisiana.

I heard you on Michael Medved today. VERY impressive. Gives real hope for the future.

Please do NOT entertain being McCain's VP.

That would needlessly abort your development and potential. Keep your eye on that to which you have committed yourself - building up Louisiana. When your many great initiatives have become fruitful there, your experience will propel you at the right time.

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Posted at 6:39pm on Jun. 10, 2008 One Reason I Still Like W

By Vladimir

Here's an interesting memo from Chief of Staff Josh Bolton to the Heads of all the Executive Departments and Agencies. The meat of it is:

"Except in extraordinary circumstances regulations to be finalized in this Adminstration should be proposed no later than June 1, 2008 and final regulations should be issued no later than November 1, 2008."

Conservatives should rejoice. Bureaucrats have historically looked forward to the waning moments of a lame duck presidency to slip through all the bureaucratic muck they have accumulated during the President's term, and for whatever reason has not been pushed forward. With an impending deadline, a lot of stuff slips through with little scrutiny.

After all, it is their government.

...more...

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Posted at 3:02pm on Jun. 6, 2008 McCain/Clinton 2008!!

By angelicamm

I really want this idea to get out into discussion. It has never happened before, but just think of what kind of discourse this would bring to politics. A McCain/Clinton ticket! There is a new website called www.hcsfjm.com basically called, "Hillary Clinton Supporters for John McCain,". Most of these people would rather see a Republican such as McCain then Obama, and I believe we could bridge a gap between Republicans and disgruntled Hillary voters.

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Posted at 2:21pm on Jun. 2, 2008 McClellan Originally Wanted to Attack Media, Defend Bush

By Matthew Sheffield

Although today his book is being touted by left-wing reporters and pundits, his initial plans for the project show former White House press secretary Scott McClellan intended to take a much different approach, one that was more sympathetic to President Bush but also quite hard on the "liberal elites" of the Washington press corps and their "hostility" toward the administration.

Reading through McClellan's original book proposal, obtained by Politico.com, it is clear that before his editor Peter Osnos took the book on a sharp leftward turn, McClellan wanted to turn the tables on foes in the press gallery including far-left columnist Helen Thomas and NBC correspondent David Gregory.

"I came to know and respect those who were assigned to the White House beat. They are solid professionals, but rarely scrutinized or put under the microscope. I will take a look at notable personalities in the White House Briefing Room, including David Gregory and Helen Thomas. I anticipate an entire chapter about the former," McClellan writes in his proposal.

According to McClellan, America's elite journalists have a dramatic problem with political diversity which in turn leads them to skew the political debate in a leftward direction. The media are in a "constant state of denial" when it comes to admitting this.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 7:37pm on May 31, 2008 Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe, Was Scott McClellen Scott McMole?

By ilja

As Conspiracy theories go, I've got one that has been mulling it's way in my head this morning that is both too diabolical and brilliant to possibly be true. Still I'm going to share it with my readers because it's just too fun to pass up.

Have any of you considered the possibility that former Press Secretary Scott McClellan was really a Democrat Mole? I mean just think about it. As the saying goes there's no better way to defeat an enemy than to defeat him from within. And we all know that the biggest Achilles heel of President Bush's administration has been an inability to communicate.

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Posted at 2:34am on May 31, 2008 What Dole Said

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Indeed. No person and no Administration is above criticism and certainly not above even the harshest criticism. But there is a difference between dissenting and selling out. Scott McClellan could have dissented far, far, far earlier than he did and Dole is right to call him out for what is blatant opportunism.

Posted at 8:32pm on May 30, 2008 The Soros-McClellan Connection

By BigGator5

Think there is no more news about Scott McClellan’s Bush-bashing book?

Think again...

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Posted at 12:18am on May 29, 2008 I Suppose That I Could Write Something About The Scott McClellan Book . . .

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

But Ed Morrissey pretty much said it all. McClellan makes some very serious charges and those charges involved accounts of quite pervasive and long-lasting behavior. He appears to have known of such behavior for quite a while during his time in the Bush Administration and yet, he refused to resign in protest or disgust. I understand that he wants to make money and wants to ensure that he becomes an attractive figure on the speaking circuit, but it is a little difficult to take his protestations seriously when he never did anything to curb the bad behavior he supposedly witnessed when he had the chance to make a difference. I have a lot of disagreements with the Bush Administration, which has been a disappointment on a number of fronts. But I know opportunism when I see it.

Posted at 5:08pm on May 28, 2008 Scott McClellan

By Dan McLaughlin

Paul Mirengoff asks when Doug Feith's book will get similar attention from the MSM to that lavished on Scott McClellan, who after all was not as directly involved in the great policymaking battles of the Bush Administration as Feith. As John Hinderaker notes in an addendum to Mirengoff's post, "facts have been notably absent from the press accounts I've seen of [McClellan's] book" - which is why historians will be much more interested in Feith's extensively documented account than in McClellan's subjective impressions. Reporters who pride themselves on writing the first draft of history might try looking at the two books in that light, rather than just playing up the one that confirms their comfortable prejudices.

And Ana Marie Cox captures the real haplessness of McClellan's notoriously incompetent tenure as press secretary:

I must respectfully disagree with the characterization of Scottie as "robotic," though he was certainly repetitious. What made him such a hapless figure was the obvious difficulty he had in staying on message. Not that he veered from it, exactly, but he just hewed to it with naked desperation, unable to perform the kind of ruthless parrying that marked the tenures of Ari Fleischer and Tony Snow. Towards the end, he often looked on the verge of tears. If he was a robot, he was a sad one.

Posted at 10:26am on May 28, 2008 Incompetence, Thy Name Is . . .

"Scott McClellan"

By Erick

There's not much more that needs to be said than what Haystack said, but let me pile on a bit.

Since I began blogging, I've begged and pleaded for the White House to fire the guy. He was a terrible press secretary who now resorts to sounding like one of the Kos Kidz. I have no doubt he'll be trolling here shortly after registering his account at Fire Dog Lake. In fact, Moe blammed some dude last night with Texas in his name, though that could have been Nick Lampson.

Scott McClellan was probably the worst press secretary in the history of the press operation at the White House. He looked like a deer in headlights any time he was behind the podium. Just witness the professionalism of Ari and Tony on either side of him. He was Busch League in the Bush League.

It's a really crappy way to repay his boss and friend by then throwing everyone else under the bus to save his skin. But I can't really blame him. So bad was he at his job, he needs some sort of excuse other than gross incompetence in order to work again. I guess this is his way to rebuild his resume and get back out there in the job market. Still, I think history will bypass his work of fiction and recognize that McClellan was in over his head, too small for a big office, and not very good at his job. To make himself larger, he's now resorted to tearing down bigger men than himself.

You know what kids say on the playground when one of them passes gas? "First one to cackle laid the egg."* Well Scott, I think you laid the egg. Suck it up and deal with it. And get back under the rock.

Geez. No class with this guy.

*Or, per Haystack, "he who smelt it, dealt it".

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Posted at 12:44am on May 26, 2008 George W. Bush At Furman

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

We all know the narrative by now: President Bush goes to speak at a university, faculty members get upset and protest and in the midst of it all, the students' day gets drowned out by the entire spectacle. Some people need to remember their Ecclesiastes. Thankfully, Joshua Treviño does.

Posted at 4:31pm on May 21, 2008 Obama is the most partisan (and liberal) Senator in Congress

By St. Louis Conservative

Tell me again why this man is being heralded as a “moderate”, when he is ranked the #1 most liberal senator in congress, meaning he has a more left-wing voting record than admitted socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Tell me again how it is that Obama is also heralded as a “new kind of politician”, one that is “post-partisan”, and someone that “seeks compromise”, when he is amongst the most virulently partisan senators in Washington, voting the Democrat Party line an astounding 96.5% of the time.

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Posted at 8:16am on May 14, 2008 This is why he is a great President!

By Jaded

President Bush had a sitdown with the Politico and his take on the the former President Carter (the idiot) is quite nice..

The money quote:

"Yes, well, what he ought to be saying is, is that America doesn't torture. If the implication there is that we do now, then he's wrong. And you bet we're going to protect ourselves by the use of military force. What he really is implying is -- or some imply -- you can be popular; if you want to be popular in the Middle East just go blame Israel for every problem. That will make you popular. Or if you want to be popular in Europe, say you're going to join the International Criminal Court.

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