McClellan is a disgrace to his ancestors, his wife, his children, any lovers he might have, and everyone who has ever shaken his hand and now has to wash it. It is bad to bite the hand that fed you; it is worse to be paid for it. It is possible to be a prostitute and still be honest and honorable; not so for a turncoat. A person should discharge his noblest parts through his deeds and his words; McClellan’s noblest parts are what he leaves behind him in the toilet. He is a backstabber and his publisher a vampire lapping at the blood. It is altogether fitting that he shares the name of McClellan the Copperhead.

Interesting title the Politico used, considering the E.D. implications.

fossten on May 30, 2008 at 2:19 PM

I hadn’t clicked it until reading your post. I thought it was going to say something about “getting a rise out of Bob Dole.”

Keith O., after wiping the slobber from the book cover, said it is one of the greatest documents of history over the last 7 years. He said it should be taught in schools for many years to come.

kirkill on May 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM

That just goes to affirm the state of the socialist incubators referred to as public schools.

Second look at Bob Dole!

As I have said on these pages several times in the recent past:

It would be great if the GOP has been able to come up with a nominee that could rise to the level of even Bob Dole for this election.

LegendHasIt on May 30, 2008 at 3:01 PM

Agreed. I miss Bob.

One of my greatest regrets is not voting for him when I had a chance. I would today.

I did visit his home town once. And stopped in a gas station just to ask where his house was. The locals weren’t amused. And this was even before the ED commercials.

I miss Norm McDonald doing Bob Dole, too.

Sigh. This election is so lame.

February 6, 2006

The Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate
SH-713
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Obama:

I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you approached me and insisted that despite your leadership’s preference to use the issue to gain a political advantage in the 2006 elections, you were personally committed to achieving a result that would reflect credit on the entire Senate and offer the country a better example of political leadership, I concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable. Thank you for disabusing me of such notions with your letter to me dated February 2, 2006, which explained your decision to withdraw from our bipartisan discussions. I’m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble. Again, sorry for the confusion, but please be assured I won’t make the same mistake again.

As you know, the Majority Leader has asked Chairman Collins to hold hearings and mark up a bill for floor consideration in early March. I fully support such timely action and I am confident that, together with Senator Lieberman, the Committee on Governmental Affairs will report out a meaningful, bipartisan bill.

You commented in your letter about my “interest in creating a task force to further study” this issue, as if to suggest I support delaying the consideration of much-needed reforms rather than allowing the committees of jurisdiction to hold hearings on the matter. Nothing could be further from the truth. The timely findings of a bipartisan working group could be very helpful to the committee in formulating legislation that will be reported to the full Senate. Since you are new to the Senate, you may not be aware of the fact that I have always supported fully the regular committee and legislative process in the Senate, and routinely urge Committee Chairmen to hold hearings on important issues. In fact, I urged Senator Collins to schedule a hearing upon the Senate’s return in January.

Furthermore, I have consistently maintained that any lobbying reform proposal be bipartisan. The bill Senators Joe Lieberman and Bill Nelson and I have introduced is evidence of that commitment as is my insistence that members of both parties be included in meetings to develop the legislation that will ultimately be considered on the Senate floor. As I explained in a recent letter to Senator Reid, and have publicly said many times, the American people do not see this as just a Republican problem or just a Democratic problem. They see it as yet another run-of-the-mill Washington scandal, and they expect it will generate just another round of partisan gamesmanship and posturing. Senator Lieberman and I, and many other members of this body, hope to exceed the public’s low expectations. We view this as an opportunity to bring transparency and accountability to the Congress, and, most importantly, to show the public that both parties will work together to address our failings.

As I noted, I initially believed you shared that goal. But I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s effort to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman Senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness. Again, I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us. Good luck to you, Senator.

Sincerely,

John McCain
United States Senate

I am looking forward to the debates.

Hopefully, for his wife’s sake, not the “med” he advertises.

EJDolbow

HA!!

fogw on May 30, 2008 at 3:16 PM

You got that right fogw!

I don’t doubt his misgivings are genuine, he was just too well paid to make anything of them — THEN. What a snake.

Carolyn Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn
How many times has this nutter been married?

funky chicken on May 30, 2008 at 5:41 PM

3 times that we know of…

Bob Dole is off his meds…..and I LIKE IT!

wildweasel on May 30, 2008 at 4:55 PM

Hopefully, for his wife’s sake, not the “med” he advertises.

Carolyn Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn

How many times has this nutter been married?

James on May 30, 2008 at 2:23 PM

Perfect

Like I said… This all started with Mommy dearest not getting the Texas ’06 Gov. Nominee…

“one tough gramma” goes ind. on Dec. ’05 + Baby McCJudis quits by Apr. ’06 = ’08 regurgitate all moon bats stereotypes into a book… $$$$+MSM love fest…

Texans say McClellan’s turn started at home with mom http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/30/texans-say-mcclellans-turn-started-at-home-with-mo/

Doing good by mommy & making some cash & quick friends on the side… Runs in the family… Might be “one tough gramma”…. But one weak Baby McCJudis… No wonder he sucked so much in front of the press…

Sigh. Bob Dole usually speaks of himself in the first person. Do we get “Gerald Ford was a cluless clutz” jokes next?

funky chicken on May 30, 2008 at 2:18 PM

Bob, is that you?

James on May 30, 2008 at 2:23 PM

Ha!

Apparently Bob Dole and baldilocks share an absolute love and admiration for spineless, stammering, ball-less sons of unmarried mothers who would sell out their mothers for thirty pieces of silver, not to mention their benefactors.

baldilocks on May 30, 2008 at 3:35 PM

But Carolyn is so proud of her Scotty’s book. KXAN-TV Austin featured her interview 17 hours ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24883285/

Carolyn Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn said that her son Scott McClellan was originally reluctant to accept the White House press secretary job, “because it meant he was speaking for others and not himself. His White House experience was a positive one, and he still holds the president in high regard, but this was a story that had to be told and a book that had to be written. He feels a real responsibility to tell the people of America the truth, and he owes it to the people of America to tell them the truth, what went wrong, where it went off track and how we can make it better, and that’s the whole reason he wrote the book, and I told him I’m so proud of him. Every word is ‘so Scott.’ And when you read the book, and I encourage people to read it. Many of the people who are his critics haven’t read the book, they’re going by the bullet points from the White House puts out: ‘Oh, he’s disgruntled.’ He’s not disgruntled.”

BTW, she was still married to Strayhorn when she ran as “one tough gramma” for TX Gov. She’s of the generation of women libbers who kept their maiden name. She’s doing what she can to Keep Austin Weird by changing her ID so frequently–and people actually keeping up with her name changes and party changes in her political career.

God Bless you senator Dole.