McClellan Sets New Flip-Flop Record
McClellan Sets New Flip-Flop Record
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, 12:59 PM, refusing to talk about a legal filing:
The second part of your question is referring to an ongoing legal proceeding and referring to a filing in that legal proceeding. We have had a policy in place, going back to the October time period of 2003 that we are not going to comment on an ongoing investigation or an ongoing legal proceeding. That policy remains unchanged.
McClellan, 1:08 PM, referring a reporter to a legal filing:
Actually, go back and look at the filing that was made by Mr. Fitzgerald, because Mr. Fitzgerald talks about that very issue in his filing, and contradicts what you’re suggesting.
American Progress CEO John Podesta weighed in on McClellan’s performance today. Read his statement HERE.
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April 7th, 2006 at 3:55 pmScottie will be sleeping with the fishes after this…
April 7th, 2006 at 3:58 pmIs it just me or do neither of those Podesta links take you anywhere?
April 7th, 2006 at 3:58 pmyour link doesn’t go to podesta’s statement.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:04 pmThe links to Podesta’s statements are not working.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:04 pmNo, Badmoodman, it’s not just you. The Podesta links fail for me too.
Fix the links please!
April 7th, 2006 at 4:04 pmi want to read it, but i cant!
April 7th, 2006 at 4:05 pmThe links don’t work.
Let’s talk about Bush and Cheney being under oath when they spoke with fitzgerald. Does anyone believe that they did any other than lie when they were under oath?
The writing is on the wall. GAME OVER BOYS. Lets talk 2008. My vote is for Edwards/ Feingold.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:05 pmAnd just think, President Clinton was impeached because he lied about a blowjob!
April 7th, 2006 at 4:05 pmlinks fixed! thank you
April 7th, 2006 at 4:06 pmI don’t think either cheney or Bush were under oath. I would be suprised if they were anyway. They didn’t go under oath for the 9/11 commision. they wouldn’t do it here.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:08 pmLibby is STILL VISITING THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!! Why, do you suppose? Because Libby, Bush, Cheney, Rove, et. al. are still working together coordinating the defense to Fitzgerald’s investigation.
Why is Libby still visiting the White House!!!!?????????
April 7th, 2006 at 4:09 pmFor more on the Bush leak and the latest PlameGate news, legal documents, timelines statutes and other key materials, see:
April 7th, 2006 at 4:10 pm“The PlameGate Scandal Resource Center.”
I have cracked the code!
April 7th, 2006 at 4:11 pm.
Scott McClellan, soon to be called “The Magician†given his propensity to make the President’s indiscretions disappear, played political dodge ball again today as he was peppered with questions about the revelation that the President allegedly authorized the release of classified information. The fact that this administration is adept at explaining away issues and questions of impropriety may be their own demise. Having control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate has led this administration to believe that they merely need to give a plausible explanation and then wait for the issues to wane. However, the inability to censure or impeach the President may well be inconsequential if his approval ratings continue to drop.
What the President and his handlers may be missing is that the absence of the masses pounding on the White House doors and calling for his departure may not necessarily equate with acceptance of an ever increasing pattern to rewrite each and every situation or circumstance to vindicate the President. They may well believe that the public is stupid, (and much of their actions indicate that they do believe this) but they may have also miscalculated the tipping point effect. It’s akin to the story of the boy who cried wolf one too many times. I’m convinced the public is more complacent and tolerant (to a point) than they are unable to discern when they are being played. This may be one of those times in recent history where the Republicans get lost in the glow of their ability to win the battles while slowly but surely losing the war. What a refreshing turn of events that would be.
http://www.thoughttheater.com
April 7th, 2006 at 4:16 pmFar as I can tell, Bush/Cheney never go under oath. Wonder why that is?
April 7th, 2006 at 4:17 pmThat’s what happens when the truth is ever changing – “We’ve always been at war with Eurasia”.
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April 7th, 2006 at 4:26 pmhttp://griperblade.blogspot.com – grumblings from the heartland
After three years of White House stonewalling, it is time for the President and the Vice President to publicly explain what transpired in the Oval Office and between them and Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove.
~ John Podesta
That’s a kiddie show and not near as interesting compared to the miracles you worked for WJC & Co. John. It’s too bad you work for the Dark Side because evidently when TSHTF you’re better than Ghostbusters. Is it true that when you were pulling Bills dick out of the dirt all those time you jokingly called yourself “The Secretary of Sh*t”? Come work for us John. We’ll pay you twice what Soros is paying and you’ll sleep better too.
Project Podesta
Podesta’s most lasting contribution to the leftist cause came through his promotion of a strategy that White House aides dubbed “Project Podesta.†This was a system that enabled the Clintons to push through unpopular policies that neither Congress nor the American people wanted. Its implementation marked a dramatic tilt in the balance of power, giving the executive branch an unprecedented ability to force its will on the legislative branch.
Project Podesta enabled the president to bypass Congress through the use of executive orders; presidential decision directives; White-House-sponsored lawsuits; vacancy appointments to high federal office; selective regulatory actions against targeted corporations; as well as a host of other extra-constitutional tactics.
Podesta showed the Clintons they could gain by force what they might fail to achieve through legislation.
“Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kind of cool,†quipped White House aide Paul Begala to The New York Times on July 5, 1998, in response to questions about the Clintons’ growing disdain for the will of Congress.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1626
W0W John, I had no idea you invented all those cool ways to circumvent the will of the people.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:30 pmTo think we pay this shill to disgrace our tv screens and lie to us all while covered with flop-sweat and wrapped in a flag.
How’s that ulcer coming along Fatty McLiar?
-GSD
April 7th, 2006 at 4:31 pmIf the Democrats in Congress don’t line up behind Feingold for a censure against Bush now that this has come to light, I don’t know what will make them wake up. A message needs to be sent to Bush that his actions are not acceptable. For the Democrats to do nothing is to give tacit approval and makes them complicit in Bush’s behavior.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:31 pmAgain, I-Right shows the inability of Republican Bush aplogists to stick to the matter at hand.
Bill Clinton could have been retroactively responsible for the Holocaust..it has NO bearing whatsover on THIS question.
Stick the the subject and stop with the childish “look over there” ..”He did it too”…Bullshit.
-GSD
April 7th, 2006 at 4:34 pmBUSH LIED (REPEATEDLY I MIGHT ADD) AND THOUSANDS DIED.
Dang, Ckinto lied once and look what happend. These guys wouldn’t know the truth if it fell on their head and where is the outrage!
April 7th, 2006 at 4:40 pmStick the the subject and stop with the childish “look over there†..â€He did it tooâ€â€¦Bullshit.
-GSD
Comment by GSD
I was simply admiring John’s work. That’s the kind of guy I want working for me. Sheesh, you can’t even hand a leftwingratbastard a compliment without getting your head chewed off.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:40 pmSheesh, you can’t even hand a leftwingratbastard a compliment without getting your head chewed off.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — April 7, 2006 @ 4:40 pm
It’s because you’ve never done it before.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:52 pmOk, so like, ah, is releasing secrets considered treason?
April 7th, 2006 at 4:54 pmI was simply admiring John’s work. That’s the kind of guy I want working for me. Sheesh, you can’t even hand a leftwingratbastard a compliment without getting your head chewed off.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — April 7, 2006 @ 4:40 pm
Remember when conservatives thought that being honest was a virtue. You were slamming him and Clinton and trying to dodge the issue at hand.
Again, not dealing with the facts, just offering more bullshit on top of the bullshit.
So keep up with the lies, it shows you for who you are.
-GSD
April 7th, 2006 at 5:01 pmenabled the president to bypass Congress through the use of executive orders; presidential decision directives; White-House-sponsored lawsuits; vacancy appointments to high federal office; selective regulatory actions against targeted corporations; as well as a host of other extra-constitutional tactics.
Wow, that sounds awfully familiar. Kinda like the guy in the White House now. Add in signing statements to invalidate the will of Congress, illegal spying, illegal war, compromising national security and you’ve pretty much nailed it. Projection is so unbecoming… I know it’s hard, but try to stay on topic.
April 7th, 2006 at 5:01 pmIsn’t it funny that I-RIGHT-I is botha racist and calls anyone he doesn’t like a communist?
You know who else did that?
Adolf Hitler.
Hitler was one of the most racist people on the planet and blamed the Reichstag fire on a, you guessed it, a communist.
I-RIGHT-I = Hitler Youth Brigade.
April 7th, 2006 at 5:04 pmW0W John, I had no idea you invented all those cool ways to circumvent the will of the people.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — April 7, 2006 @ 4:30 pm
I-Right is so dishonest that 4 threads up he would say the above line and then claim that it was a compliment. God, the Kool-Aid is causing some serious brain damamge on the right. Liars and crooks and cheaters.
Look at Tom Delay…In years past a politician who was drummed out of office because of sleaze would quietly go away..Delay is taking victory laps around Washington like he is Mr. Smith.
Swirling the drain at a rapid pace.
-GSD
April 7th, 2006 at 5:05 pmIt’s because you’ve never done it before.
Comment by unbelievable
No matter how hard I try they will never love me will they?
April 7th, 2006 at 5:22 pmIRI is an “IED” or an “Improvising Evasion Device” designed to disrupt, distract and evade the subject of a particular thread by blowing up and exposing us all to the shrapnel of his ignorance and hatefulness
April 7th, 2006 at 5:34 pmNo matter how hard I try they will never love me will they?
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — April 7, 2006 @ 5:22 pm
This doesn’t sound remotely like anything I-RIGHT-I would ever consider saying.
I wish whoever is doing the spoofing would stop. It’s old now.
April 7th, 2006 at 5:47 pmunbelievable,
I’ve noticed that the ‘tone’, ‘vocabulary’ and ‘focus’ of MizzWrong changes every few months – which is why I believe he’s either a multiple personality psychotic, or part of the whole reichwing propaganda machine, or both.
April 7th, 2006 at 5:51 pmI’ve noticed that the ‘tone’, ‘vocabulary’ and ‘focus’ of MizzWrong changes every few months – which is why I believe he’s either a multiple personality psychotic, or part of the whole reichwing propaganda machine, or both.
Comment by Ryan Neat — April 7, 2006 @ 5:51 pm
Ryan,
I-RIGHT-I is one guy. I’m certain. He is moody though. And that does affect the tone of his postings sometimes. However, there are other people who post as him trying to be funny. So, that probably adds to the fluxuations. I think that kind of thing is juvenile, and hopefully, the person (people) doing it will stop.
April 7th, 2006 at 5:59 pmvery interesting Ryan…hmmmm…this thread had nothing to do with clinton until IwrongI tried to steer us to it.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:02 pmunbelievable,
MizzWrong used to bug me about being Hindu, but a couple of weeks ago he didn’t seem to even remember that I was. Considering how obsessive he was with me, I find that hard to believe unless it wasn’t the same person. Just an observation.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:10 pmAfter all of these years, why hasn’t anyone been charged for “revealing” the identity of the insignificant federal bureaucrat Valerie Plame? No evidence? No crime?
April 7th, 2006 at 6:11 pmNo matter how hard I try they will never love me will they?
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — April 7, 2006 @ 5:22 pm
This doesn’t sound remotely like anything I-RIGHT-I would ever consider saying.
I wish whoever is doing the spoofing would stop. It’s old now.
Comment by unbelievable
That was me tongue in cheek, S.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:15 pmMizzWrong used to bug me about being Hindu, but a couple of weeks ago he didn’t seem to even remember that I was. Considering how obsessive he was with me, I find that hard to believe unless it wasn’t the same person. Just an observation.
Comment by Ryan Neat
You overestimate yourself sugarpants.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:17 pmIRI is an “IED†or an “Improvising Evasion Device†designed to disrupt, distract and evade the subject of a particular thread by blowing up and exposing us all to the shrapnel of his ignorance and hatefulness
Comment by Quadrajet
Oh just relax and enjoy it.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:18 pmMizzWrong used to bug me about being Hindu, but a couple of weeks ago he didn’t seem to even remember that I was. Considering how obsessive he was with me, I find that hard to believe unless it wasn’t the same person. Just an observation.
Comment by Ryan Neat — April 7, 2006 @ 6:10 pm
I won’t give away confidences, but I am certain. I don’t know why he stopped bugging you about being Hindu (one of my bestfriends is from Mumbai, by the way. Are you celebrating the Festival of Colors?) Maybe it just got old. Or he found something “more interesting” to bother you about. Can’t say. I just know it’s one guy. Sorry, but that’s all I’ll say.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:39 pmThat was me tongue in cheek, S.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — April 7, 2006 @ 6:15 pm
Oh, okay. Guess you started the Prozac and bourbon a bit ealier than usual… :)
But I do wish whoever is pretending to be you would quit.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:44 pmMaybe if the white house would stop stonewalling we could get the truth.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:58 pm9 minutes eh?
Its a Wonder Scotty can even get his head close to his ass, given the Rotundity Factor, but to see he managed to fully insert his Head into his Rectal Cavity in 9 minutes is not to be laughed at.
Someone Call Guiness Book.
IRI You think you can beat that Record?
April 7th, 2006 at 7:32 pmAfter all of these years, why hasn’t anyone been charged for “revealing†the identity of the insignificant federal bureaucrat Valerie Plame? No evidence? No crime?
Comment by Tom — April 7, 2006 @ 6:11 pm
Naw its the fact that Bush lied for ‘Political Gain’, forget that Letter or even Valerie Plame, Bush Outed one for ‘political Gain’ he may well Out another. Since Bush Lied that means the Yellowcake letter is a forgery, as we all knew it was, and the LIE for “Poltical Gain” that LIE turned into a pretty large part of going to War with Iraq and the Death of 2200 Sons Of America.
Thats 2100 Americans for Bushs’ ‘Political Gain’ Tom.
April 7th, 2006 at 7:41 pmI can’t imagine having a job where your primary job duty is to tell bald faced lies to the world over and over and over again. It’s a job for the lowliest of the lowest scum of the earth. May he rot in hell.
April 7th, 2006 at 8:21 pmIRI You think you can beat that Record?
Comment by ][-RANT-][
Done it many times. As have you.
April 7th, 2006 at 9:02 pmif it was bush who got caught with a blue dress, cigars, and a BJ, Scott McClellan and the right wingnuts would have put Linda Tripp in prison.
it would be all about how Linda Tripp leaked confidential executive information. they would criminalize her and focus so much attention on her, that there would be no time to question George Bush and his fault.
Why is that Mother F**ker never wrong!! why can’t he EVER ADMIT that he f**ked up??!?
Clinton did.
I guess it takes a MAN to admit you’re wrong and COWARD to deny any wrongdoing whatsoever.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:04 pmbanana, you’re not bananas!
April 7th, 2006 at 10:18 pmLies become more and more complex and the truth is always so simple. We the people who pay their salaries are being poorly served by these bastards.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:23 pmI expect to see McClellan dissolve into a steaming blob of goo right on the podium one day soon.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:26 pmLet’s simplify things everybody. George Bush, Dick (head) Cheney and the rest of the Neo-Con Cabal are Evil Incarnate. Completely and Totally possessed by wealth and power… powermad. They are using the military as simple, expendible pawns for their sinister quest to rule the world. This is in no way within the realm of what the founding fathers of this nation had envisioned.
They didn’t live in a perfect world either, but they thought, and wrestled, each and every night, every day and night for months and in some cases, years. To form a “perfect world” like we are to this day fully capable of. They didn’t have all the answers and in some cases were completely hypocritical. But they DID come up with an awesome plan.
Never in the history of this country have we had such an obvious attempt at a coup. Ultra-right, Neo-Conservative, discumbobulated, cockamamie, ridiculous, short-sighted fools are not only trying to hijack this country, but they are rolling along conquer the world. Just as has been tried time and time again throughout human history, their experiment shall too… fail.
People generally don’t have a problem with allegiance. I do believe that people don’t want to be controlled either. And we are now being presented with this problem. They do not have the general populace’s desires and needs at the forefront of their agenda or decisions.
I don’t know about you but, I prefer the truth. This demented, PNAC ideal for the world, must be stopped… immediately! It’s bankrupting our nation and the future for our children. We deserve better, we can do better, because we are definitely capable or doing better. Not only for us, but for the rest of the world.
Think.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:28 pmWhy is that Mother F**ker never wrong!! why can’t he EVER ADMIT that he f**ked up??!?
Clinton did.
I guess it takes a MAN to admit you’re wrong and COWARD to deny any wrongdoing whatsoever.
Comment by banana
I guess you forgot. Clinton never admitted anything. According to him it’s all dependent upon what you’re definition of “is”, is. Why do you worry about this shit anyway? You’re out of dope, you flip burgers for a liven and your live in girlfriend is about to tell you she’s having twins. Get a life bra.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:33 pm#55 U-Wrong-U: Haven’t had the joy of confronting you for awhile. Very humorous comeback to banana. You haven’t lost your touch.
Bill did actually admit what he did after the “is” situation. So what. He hasn’t been president for 6 years. And his lie never put our nation in such peril as it has been put into and endures to this day.
C’mon… stop being an automaton! Wake up and demand a better and more prosperous world for everyone!
April 7th, 2006 at 10:49 pm#57 – Mr. Evil,
April 8th, 2006 at 1:55 amDon’t tryst with iri. Paid blogers are equally capable of lying and ignoring the truth.
Oops, #56 in #57
April 8th, 2006 at 1:56 amMaybe I-R-I is Karl Rove himself on here? Who else would post a never ending defense of Bush
April 8th, 2006 at 2:25 amand rant about Gay sex while drooling for it > lol.
Actually, you are wrong once again. Clinton went on national television and apologized to the entire country, but you were probably at a Klan rally that night.
April 8th, 2006 at 3:04 amIRI ya need to keep of the pills man or is it the crack that rover keeps send ing you?
your brain for the most part is Cooked…..
He’s too close to bush & Co. His mother changed parties to keep republicans in the Governor Mansion once there she wil be OUT as a thug.
Scotty has never told the truth why the journalist allows him to get away with lying in their face is beyond my thinking……..
Scotty won’t be going anywhere he’s bush’s boi…
April 8th, 2006 at 7:52 amIn John Podesta’s rebuke of Scott McClellan’s “lack of credibility” Podesta states that McClellan is hoping that we will forget his earlier lies about the TRAITORS Libby, Rove, Bushiva and Cheney’s involvement in the “leak”…
…well, the MSM seems to be hoping the same thing, as they continue to REFUSE to remind the public of Bushiva’s fake indignation…
…and continue to push the notion that the president’s authority to declassify is what’s at issue here…
…the TREASONOUS Fox propaganda network is scandalous in their pro-Bushiva biased propagandizing of the situation…
…that network should be destroyed, dismantled, and EVERY employee responsible for disseminating this putrid propaganda tried for TREASON!
April 8th, 2006 at 9:26 amIRI sounds more like Rich Lowry than my favorite Texan, who uses the term CommiF***tard with such southern eloquence. Tracy, maybe, but definetly not the old IRI.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:15 am#19, I don’t know how “unpopular” these programs were that the Clinton administration “forced” through. If you’re going by that simplistic metric, then you need to go no further than compare job approval ratings at this time in office. It’s pretty likely that Clinton’s popularity was much higher, and what makes the difference between them even more remarkable is that Clinton’s highest rating probably never matched W’s highest, after 9/11.
Another thing is that Bush’s party has control of both houses of Congress. So even if Clinton did do these things you talk about, which I guess you’re saying are reprehensible, how do you rationalize the fact that Bush has done them also, needlessly? I know that’s a tough one to spin, so I’ll give you the real answer: Bush doesn’t give a flying fuck about Congress, the Constitution, or the rule of law. He’s going to do whatever he wants, and what he wants to do is very, very unpopular.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:30 amSeems Republicans have been committing warantless wiretapping on domestic phone calls. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70621-0.html?tw=wn_index_1. Makes sense as the White House has started to hint they think that’s also within their limitless powers. And God forbid anyone reveal any secret activity . . . when it doesn’t benefit the Republicans.
I’m shocked. Shocked. Shocked that the Republicans are lying through their teeth again.
Republicans gone wild. Totally out of control. Total failures. We’ve got to clean them out with a double flush in 2006 and 2008.
April 8th, 2006 at 11:05 amWe deserve better, we can do better, because we are definitely capable or doing better. Not only for us, but for the rest of the world.
Think.
Comment by Mr. Evil
I think the rest of the world (much of it) has proven itself unworthy of our efforts on their behalf. They look out for number 1 only. That’s why you find terrorist nations and genocidal maniacs given places at important tables in the UN and men like Arafat win the Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps you should take your own advice and think.
April 8th, 2006 at 6:35 pm