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Trent Duffy Says Scott McClellan Is A Damn Liar
Here’s what Trent Duffy says about Scott McClellan and his ridiculous book. Duffy worked for McClellan as Deputy Press Secretary.
· Was it the truth or a lie when you told me, during a series of personal discussions in your West Wing office in late 2005 and early 2006 (at the apex of what you now call your period of “disillusionment” and “dismay”), that you were happy in your job and proud to serve President Bush and that you had no intention of leaving soon? What about in April 2006, when rumors swirled about a change at the podium, and you again told me you wanted to stay?
· Was it the truth or a lie when you told me around Christmas that the excerpts released by your publisher were being “taken out of context” and that your book wasn’t going to be a hatchet job?
· Was it the truth or a lie when you assured your former deputies that you wanted our “full participation” in the book?
· Was it the truth or a lie when, after countless briefings, you complained that the White House press corps was too tough, unfair, over the top and didn’t get it? ….
When the first “teaser” excerpts of your book hit the press in December, my phone lighted up with calls from reporters. Before responding, I called you; you said the publisher had taken liberties, you didn’t mean to attack the president and to point reporters to your 2006 interview with Larry King as your genuine take on things. You told me that your book was still about the poisonous partisan atmosphere in Washington and didn’t breathe a hint about Iraq or Hurricane Katrina. This was long after you were outside the White House bubble, amigo.
You also assured me, when we’ve talked the past two years, that you wanted your deputies to review the book and share our thoughts. Thinking you actually meant what you said, I reached out to you two months ago to take you up on your offer. Radio silence. Why didn’t you keep your promise to me and the other professionals who gave years of their lives working for you?
It certainly looks like Scott McClellan’s version of events during his time at the White House are completely different everyone else’s.
It’s so painfully obvious that Scott and his publisher sexed up his book by adding every single liberal talking point ever uttered by a Bush-hating blogger.
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Ahmadinejad Calls U.S. Intel Report “Declaration Of Surrender”
Iran’s president said on Sunday the publication of a U.S. intelligence report saying Iran had halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003 amounted to a “declaration of surrender” by Washington.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also dismissed in an interview with state television the prospect of new U.N. sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt sensitive atomic work.
“It is too far-fetched,” he said when asked whether he expected the U.N. Security Council to impose fresh sanctions on Iran following two such resolutions since last December.
Bush Vetoes SCHIP Again
From the AP:
President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap- down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program. It was Bush’s seventh veto in seven years—all but one coming since Democrats took control of Congress in January. Wednesday was the deadline for Bush to act or let the bill become law. The president also vetoed an earlier, similar bill expanding the health insurance program.
Bush vetoed the bill in private.
Clearly the Democrats don’t understand what the name “The Decider” means.
-Chris Jones
Cheney Says Murtha and Dingell Don’t Have “Big Sticks”
Vice President Cheney warned in an interview with The Politico that a premature withdrawal from Iraq would invite “further attacks” against the United States and said he has been surprised by the weakness of the Democratic Congress.
The funny part of the interview is when he taunts the Democratic leadership. He talked about Democratic Reps. John Dingell and John Murtha, scoffing at the idea of two men who spent years accruing so much power showing so much deference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the big debates of the year.
Murtha “and the other senior leaders … march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker,” Cheney said. “I’m trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn’t have happened.”
“They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.”
Rep. Rahm Emanuel got wind of the Vice President’s talk of sticks and fired back,
“Some of us were surprised that the president didn’t have a bigger stick when he could have stood up to Dick Cheney.”
Cheney also left no doubt that he takes pride in the most-criticized policies of the Bush administration, including the wiretapping of suspected terrorists, and the long-term imprisonment and aggressive interrogation of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“We’ve been very successful,” he said. “It’s not an accident; it’s because those programs have been there.”
The Vice President also made the prediction that Iraq will be a self-sustaining Democracy by 2009.
But Cheney said that by the middle of January 2009, it will be clear that “we have in fact achieved our objective in terms of having a self-governing Iraq that’s capable for the most part of defending themselves, a democracy in the heart of the Middle East, a nation that will be a positive force in influencing the world around it in the future.”
One thing you have to admire about Dick Cheney and President Bush is their willingness to do what they think is right, even in the face of withering criticism. Say what you want about the Bush Administration, but the fact remains that we haven’t been attacked again.
I’m also glad that Cheney brought up the one fact everyone is aware of, but refuses to acknowledge. Republicans really do have “bigger sticks” than Democrats.
-Chris Jones
Bush Pledges Palestinian State By 2008
Aaron Klein over at WorldNetDaily is reporting that President Bush told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a private meeting today, that the U.S. will ensure the Palestinians will have a state on the ground before he leaves office in 2008.
“Bush and the U.S. administration gave us a commitment there will be a Palestinian state before he leaves office, and not just an outline of a state on paper but contiguous territory on the ground,” said the Palestinian negotiator, who spoke on condition his name be withheld because he was revealing the contents of a private meeting.
Bush met separately today with Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ahead of tomorrow’s U.S.-sponsored Annapolis summit which is expected to yield a framework for a separate Palestinian state.
Another interesting tidbit from this conference is that in exchange for Saudi Arabia attending the Annapolis conference, the Israeli government agreed to recognize the importance of a Saudi-sponsored “peace initiative” in which the Jewish state is called upon to evacuate the strategic Golan Heights, the entire West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
Allow me to translate the above tidbit for you:
In exchange for Saudi Arabia attending the Annapolis conference, the Israeli government agreed to recognize the importance of a Saudi-sponsored “peace initiative” in which the Jewish state is called upon to give the Golan Heights back to Syria, and turn the rest of Israel over to the Palestinians.
That sounds like the greatest deal in history, provided your not a Jew. I guess that pretty much throws the whole “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” thing right out the window.
The Jewish people would be expected to give up the Temple Mount which is the holiest site in Judaism. Nobody thinks twice about asking Jews to give up THE HOLIEST SITE IN ALL OF JUDAISM. Can you imagine the response by Muslims if there was talk about surrendering Mecca?
The entire Muslim world would unite into a big, fiery, ball of Islamic rage that would engulf all of mankind. The ACLU would practically breathe fire if such a thing were ever suggested.
Allahu Akbar, الله أكبر
-Chris Jones
Gore Vs. Bush: The Oval Office Meeting
The much anticipated meeting between Al Gore and President Bush went off without a hitch today. Gore telling reporters that he and the President bloviated spoke about global warming the entire time.
He characterized the meeting as “very cordial” and “substantive,” but declined to give any further details.
Gore had come, along with the other American winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize, for an official reception by the president.
The president, who had personally telephoned Gore to invite him and arranged the date of the Nobel recognitions to fit Gore’s own travel schedule, also received the Democrat and wife Tipper Gore for a private session before the “photo-op’’ with Gore’s fellow Nobel laureates.
-Samantha Giles
White House Announces “Enduring Relationship” with Iraq
The White House today announced an agreement reached between President Bush and Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki regarding the U.S. presence in Iraq.
This is a gentle way for the President to let the American people know that we have a long-term commitment to Iraq. The President will bring the troops home eventually, but we will have a continuing presence there just like we do in Japan, South Korea, Europe, Kuwait, and elsewhere.Democrats are already acting shocked by this announcement, but I can’t imagine anyone really believing we would sacrifice all the blood and treasure that we have, and not at least get a few military bases out of the deal.
That’s the way it has always worked and the way it should work. We liberated Kuwait, and in return we have permanent bases there. Iraq is extremely important strategically, and it’s a major advantage for the U.S. to have fully functioning military bases there.
It should be funny watching “dingy” Harry Reid stomp his foot and cry about this agreement. I’m sure Code Pink will throw themselves into the middle of the street or impale themselves on the capital steps in response as well. Meanwhile, Republicans and Joe Lieberman will point and laugh at the silly hippies.
-Chris Jones
** Read the full text of the White House statement by clicking the link above
Ex-White House Spokesman Writes Tell-All Book
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has written a 400 page book about his time in the Bush inner circle. The book is called What Happened and it chronicles among other things the Valerie Plame leak case.
His publisher released a little taste of what you can expect in the book:
The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.
There was one problem. It was not true.
I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the Vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the President himself.
Scott McClellan has been a close friend of the Bush family for around 15 years, so I have my doubts that he’s gonna drop any bombshells. It should still make for an interesting read.
-Samantha Giles
Fran Townsend, White House Homeland Security Advisor, Resigns
Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism advisor who gave public updates on the extent of the threat to U.S. security, is stepping down after 4-1/2 years.
Her departure continues an exodus of key Bush aides and confidants, with his two-term presidency in the final 15 months. Top aide Karl Rove, along with press secretary Tony Snow and senior presidential advisor Dan Bartlett, left earlier this year.
Bush in his statement early today noted that Townsend had served in the position for more than 4-1/2 years.
“Fran always has provided wise counsel on how best to protect the American people from the threat of terrorism,” the president said. “She has been a steady leader in the effort to prevent and disrupt attacks and to better respond to natural disasters.”
In her resignation to Bush, Townsend indicated she was ready to take a break from public service and return to the private sector.
Judge Orders White House to Hold E-Mails
A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails today.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy directed the Executive Office of the President to safeguard the material in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether the White House has destroyed e-mails in violation of federal law.
The White House is seeking dismissal of the lawsuits brought by two private groups—Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government and the National Security Archive.
-Samantha Giles
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