What?! You want consistency from conservatives? Particularly conservatives at Powerline? I bet you think that a colonoscopy should be fun as well.

If “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds“, what do you call an insanely stupid inconsistency?

Of course, the unspoken elephant in the room is the fact that you can be sure Little Scottie wouldn’t be publishing a single harsh word if Bush wasn’t the biggest Presidential failure since Buchanan.

I’ve got no doubts that Little Scottie took a look at the depressed job market, and particularly the career prospects for a PR man who presided over the biggest public relations disaster since the New Coke, realized that the only shot he had at a job other than one where the frequently repeated talking points are “Do you want Fries with that?” or “Do you want to supersize that combo meal for $.75 more?” would be if he burned his boats and distanced himself, oh, about two continents away from the Bush Administration.

Just like Powell. Tell’s the country what those outside the “true believers” already knew after the fact.

Too late Scotty. Your legacy as scum is etched in stone.

Better luck at the Hague.

A rude person might point out that those two assessments are contradictory.

That would be sad.

And puzzling.

a former thug writes a book about the other thugs and how they played the media like 5th graders. he writes the book to make money. the other thugs get all pissed. perhaps they will see the light (that special light that thugs see) and start drafting their own indispensable views of the criminality and the criminal neglect and incompetence of this pussball of an administration that has pret’ near destroyed governance in amerika.

and that’s all i got to say about that.

goddam their shit-filled souls to hell…

neil, that all raises the question: who exactly wants to read more of these books?

I mean, 77 percent of Americans already know this president sucked big time — and we’re all quite busy trying to make ends meet in this disaster of an economy that will be Bush’s legacy for generations to come, so we’re not likely to spend our money making Scott McClellan or any other repentant thug rich.

The remaining 23 percent (of which the powertools represent that vocal minority of complete idiots who don’t seem to appreciate that they’re *really* embarasing themselves and their cause by continuing to make noise that attracts attention to their stupidity and ignorance) aren’t likely to buy the book — partly because they’re afraid it might contain facts (allergic reactions, cognitive dissonance, etc.), and partly because Michelle Malkin and friends have already posted the talking points against it over at Cliff Notes for Haters pajama media dot com, so why bother reading the real thing?

Meanwhile, nothing quite as delightful as watching them eat their own, is there now?

I dunno … my favorite part of this whole spectacle has been “this doesn’t sound like Scottie - a LIBERAL BLOGGER wrote it!!!”

It’s so pathetic. Why not collect all the former Bushies memoirs into a whole tome titled “How Everyone I Worked With and Supported Completely Ruined This Country Despite My Noble Efforts in Public Service”

None of these books coming out are ancient history, either. McClellan and Feith haven’t had decades to smoke on their pipes in their rustic cabins reflecting on the mistakes they made when they were younger, when men were men, etc. They knew they were full of blood-drenched BS as they were working for the President, but they waited to leave to give a tell-all account and make a little money selling books. It’s chickenhawk cowardice raised to nth degree.

i think you answered your own question… let ‘em eat more and more of their own as these thugs all try to hit the best seller lists ’cause if us wimpy dems takeover there’ll be no real market for thugs for a while in guv’ment…

well, the partial answer anyway — i mean who is gonna buy ol’ scottie’s book? you? me? it is to laugh, and throw up a little in our mouths — but letting the thugs all spill their guts might be a help for a grand jury. or that mythic, mystic, water-colour fantasy: The Hague!!! Yow!

(See John Bolton. See John bolt from Wales. Run, John, run!)

The only book by any of these clown I’ll ever buy is the much-anticipated: “Successfully Navigating the Showers in Cell Block C for Dummies” by Karl Rove. I’ll give my signed copy to Dick Cheney so he’ll be better prepared when his turn comes…

Actually, my recent colonoscopy WAS fun. At least I was told that I really seemed to indulge in the sedating effect of the sedatives they gave me.

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so predictable.

Nah, it’s still hilarious. Sometimes a joke is funny because it’s unexpectedly, and sometimes a joke is funny because it’s exactly what you expect.

There is an interesting twist in all this: the whiners are saying Scotty now “sounds like a liberal blogger”. OK, and since 77% of the country is now feeling like perhaps (1) Scotty is telling the truth, and (2) Bush is beyond sucktastic, then I suspect the final result with the 77% could very possibly be: “hey, them librul bloggers were RIGHT, let’s go read them!” Tbogg, you are about to become a whole lot more popular!

Would be better for the movie if they have Jon Polito play Scotty:

After a beat Caspar shuts his mouth. His eyes lose some of
their glaze. He looks at The Dane’s hand, turns and
strides towards the door.

Caspar
. . . Youse fuckin’ fancy-pants, all of ya.

He opens the docr, but Leo’s voice stops him.

Leo
(softly)
Johnny. You’re exactly as big as I let you be
and no bigger and don’t forget it. Ever.

Caspar looks at Lea from the open doorway. After a beat he
chuckles.

Caspar
Ats right, Leo, you’re the big-shot around here.

He dances over at Tom again, then back to Leo:

. . . And I’m just some schnook likes to get
slapped around.

He leaves, The Dane following, shutting the door.

from Miller’s Crossing

I’d have Steve Buscemi play Leo instead of Albert Finney in this, McCllelan’s crossing. John Hurt can play Eddie Dane.

For what it’s worth, McClellan looked to me like he was uncomfortable with the lying. Ari relished it. That tiny pang of conscience was in there somewhere. I can’t engage in the Scotty bashing anyway. Just enjoy the show.

Wonder if McC’s book will be in Little’s Boots’ preznitdential library?

I wondered about that as well. I know it seems like a little too little, and a little too late, though as I recall we had people like Richard Clarke and Henry Paulson writing books that said these guys were idiots way back when, but the evil liberal MSM wasn’t interested so their stories faded away. Not this time it seems. Scotty drew a bit more blood than the previous sinking-ship-jumpers did, and the story seems to have a lot more legs than I would have expected even 1 year ago.

Plus, the more it enrages the enrageosphere, the long it lives. Keep up the parsing guys, we’ve loving it, including the Faux Spews head who said that Scotty better not have any skeletons in his closet, or else.

Oh, for those really worried about McClelland “selling out”, please note that the job he had was that of a PR flack and long time communications man for George Bush.

Beyond that, he wrote this for a small publishing house. The big money that he could have gotten was being a PR flack for Exxon or something. I hear the Bushies had connections with the oil bidness and could have helped him out.

I’m not saying he’s a profile in courage. I’m saying, he had long sold out and, in his profession with his resume, could have named a salary in the private sector.