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Posted at 11:43am on Jun. 16, 2008 Comparing and Contrasting

What the Times hated in 2000, it now likes in 2008

By Erick

Let us compare and contrast.

Here is the New York Times covering Governor Bush in 2000.

Mr. Bush and his advisers have made clear that one of the litmus tests the person will have passed is that he or she can be utterly faithful to the governor.

Now here is the Times on Senator Obama.

Mr. Obama’s style so far is marked by … his selection of a small group of advisers who have exhibited discipline and loyalty in carrying out his priorities.

It gets better. Keep reading . . .

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Posted at 8:56am on Jun. 9, 2008 Conservatism Is Not For Sale

Regardless how much it's been rented out of late

By haystack

Our own Ben Domenech has an editorial up at the Washington Times that is especially well-timed. Entitled "Conservative seeds of destruction", Ben reminds us of a fundamental truth about the so-called Conservative movement:

[I]f conservatism is to have any future, it is as a movement that does not put too much faith in the individuals who claim to espouse shared ideology.

Responding to McClellan's book, Ben suggests this:

[H]is tell-all book operates on the oldest of Washington principles: that everyone inside the Beltway has their price. His original book proposal reads like so many other axe-grinding reputation savers that will emerge from loyal out of work ex-Bush appointees over the coming year. Pedantic and uninventive, it has the same vibrant, colorful, and innovative personality Mr. McClellan brought to the press office podium: that of stale unleavened bread.

Unleavened bread indeed.

The book itself has faded from the headlines a week running, the number of Google hits dropping steadily, and McClellan will soon achieve the state of nothingness that always follows such adventures. He leaves behind some food for thought, however, in the larger context.

More below the fold...

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Posted at 7:45am on May 28, 2008 When You Suck At Your Job, Quit And Write A Book Ripping Your Old Boss Who Stuck With You

you'll sell more books, and you can gloss over how much you sucked at your job

By haystack

Here we find Scott McClellan shaking hands with the President as he leaves his post back in November 2007. I can't help but wonder if that smile on his sorry face was hiding thoughts of the book advance he had coming once he signed on to rip his former boss..in the name of a couple bucks and a shot at rewriting his sorry history as Press Secretary.

He was no Ari Fleischer, but Bush stuck with him...until, apparently, he got the book deal. What a scumbag.

From the NY Daily News:

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has blasted his old boss, saying President Bush failed to be "open and forthright on Iraq" and relied on "propaganda" to sell the war.

McClellan's take on the Bush administration comes in a surprisingly scathing tell-all memoir, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," to be published next week, Politico.com reports.

From Mike Allen at the Politico:

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.

Go to the Politico for the lowlights of Scotty boy's biggest gripes. I need a shower.

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Posted at 7:42pm on May 15, 2008 Putting Bush's Words In Context: Barack Obama, Neville Chamberlain, and the Art of Appeasement

By Erick

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