"There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues," Dole wrote in the personal e-mail.(...)
"I have no intention of reading your 'exposé' because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job," he wrote.
Am I missing the part where McClellan didn't quit and stayed quiet? In fact, isn't this entire, left-wing blogger affirming moment about how McClellan quit, and then spoke up? Would this have even been possible had he not quit and not spoken up?
Next, Bob Dole will call the Rubik's Cube a "miserable invention" for being "a hand-held, a mechanical puzzle, on which each face is covered by nine stickers of one of six solid colors, invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ern? Rubik." Take that, Rubik's Cube.
The Rules and Bylaws Committee meets tomorrow, and the Puerto Rick primary is on Sunday. There's basically no way that Clinton comes back at this point, unless the DNC awards her everything she wants on Saturday and she convinced about 100 superdelegates to switch to her.
Happy suck on this day! It's been five years to the day since Tom Friedman explained the rationale for the war in Iraq.
I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie.
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We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big stick right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.
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What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"
You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna let it grow?
Well Suck. On. This.
Okay.
That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could. That's the real truth.
Bush is having surrogates go out and deny Scott McClellan's story about Bush's cocaine usage. Really? That's how they are pushing back?
Esther Kaplan has a long article out on SEIU and CNA, that actually gives background on the dispute.
Hard core leftie Camille Abate is lying about progressive Democrat Dennis Schulman and the Responsible Plan. This is actually quite common, and has happened in Maine and Colorado. The protest industry, while less noisy than it has been in years past, is still irresponsible.
Here's Nancy Pelosi: ''This war is a big lie. It was a lie to begin with..and it continues to be a lie..at some point, maybe the lies just got to be too heavy for him to carry,'' [Pelosi] said of the former White House spokesman.
Why can't journalists say the same?
So happy anniversary. It's been five years since Tom Friedman said we hit Iraq so we could tell some Arabs to 'suck on this'. I'm glad the premier foreign policy columnist in our country has a fragile ego that he covers with bloodthirsty racism.
What are you reading? What do you expect to happen tomorrow?
Feeling for Scott McLellan. Nice getting savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true anyway.
That was Bush-Cheney eCampaign Director Mike Turk, 16 hours ago on his Twitter feed.
Twitter is a social network that limits people's messages to 140 characters. The thoughts are partial, groggy, sometimes witty, useful, casual. And so Turk, who worked at the RNC after the reelection of Bush and then for the cable industry, is tossing off what has pervaded the mid-level operative class of the Republican Party.
What I'm noticing is that the chatter around Scott McClellan is not dying down.
His turn against the White House continues to dominate the media narrative about the war and the press. I'm not sure why, but perhaps it's confirmation of what has been obvious to many of us for a long time, presented by a messenger the elites cannot avoid ignoring. I've been thinking about this for some time. In The Second National Risk and Culture Study, five social scientists found that people tend to believe a story that contradicts a preset narrative they hold only when it is presented by someone who looks and sounds like them. They did this study looking for an answer to political polarization and the warring tribes of America. If you look at the DC press and political party leaders as a tribal culture, it fits perfectly. Glenn Greenwald has more, pointing to Jessica Yellin's admission that she was pressured to do pro-war stories by corporate executives.
Relatedly, Oliver Willis shows that David Gregory belongs to this tribe, and thinks the press did nothing wrong in its coverage of Iraq.
"I strongly opposed the failed strategy after visiting Iraq on several occasions," he told reporters. Asked if the revelations in the book will hurt his campaign, he replied no. "I'm sure people will judge me on my record including my advocacy for, and strong opposition to the failed strategy in Iraq and for the strategy that is succeeding. I'm quite confident of that."
There's a new Hillary Clinton boosting 527 running ads for her in Montana and Puerto Rico.
Back in Washington, the anxiety level of Republicans is rising. "The McCain camp is now acting without much rhyme or reason," says a prominent consultant. "And it all goes to the top." Another Republican campaign strategist, in a thinly veiled reference to McCain, says, "Somebody is behaving impulsively is the point."...
Insiders are worried that reporters have too many chances to throw him off his daily talking points. "That's not how you win an election!" says a McCain associate. "McCain is about the only person left who thinks we ought to keep the bus going. Obama keeps the press at a distance. Why? Because he's trying to win!"
If you stop thinking of the international labor movement as a set of organizations, and think of it as a story, the comments from this blog post, where Microsoft employees from America and India complain about management, is remarkable.
Josh Kahn at the Next Right has an interesting observation about 'microtrends' and Congressional campaigns.
The New York Times endorsed Frank Lautenberg for his reelection against conservative Democrat Rob Andrews in the New Jersey Senate primary.
I'll be at Brookings for a luncheon on campaign finance reform and the internet.
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan betrays his former boss and says the war in Iraq was based on lies. In 2008. Really, that's how long it took?
Phil Gramm, McCain's advisor on subprime loans, is working with UBS, which is tens of billions of dollars deep into the mess.
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