“AUSTIN — Scott McClellan tried to resign as White House press secretary because of growing concerns about the administration’s direction, but President Bush urged him to stay on the job.

His mother, Texas political veteran Carole Keeton Strayhorn says he tried to resign in late 2005, but the president talked him out of it.

“I could see him becoming more tortured as it went on,” said Mrs. Strayhorn, a former Republican state comptroller and Texas Railroad Commissioner.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/053008dntexslater.40b37509.html

Man, the Politico is such a transparent right-wing outfit. Glenn Greenwald has other examples.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

The reich says TRUTH = HATE.

And BuckRogers1965…? Welcome to the light.

~A

I don’t know if you are still around, your post was hours ago but thanks for the post.

One of the tragedies of the last 7 years is the divisive politics pushed by Karl and supported by Fox News and the far right. There is room for honest debate in the middle, and the differences are not as great as they would have us believe.

No one likes being lied to, no one. I have a lot of good friends on the right and they despise the government intrusion and secrecy that this administration represents.

I personally think Karl’s tactics may have won the 200 and 2004 battles, but he lost the war.

As for Republican buckrogers1965 plan to shrink gov’t to 1/10th it’s size (while the population it governs continues to expand)I’ll simply point to these quotes:

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”–John Kenneth Galbraith

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”–Aristotle

“Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries – not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.”–Albert Einstein

Re: Bush/Paraguay
The boy king can run but he can’t hide. Paraguay may not have an extradiction agreement with America but that shouldn’t stop President Obama or the War Trial enforcers at the Hague from using extraordinary rendition. Chimpy used this to facilitate his torture program but I don’t think any nation would object to it’s use in bringing this war criminal to justice. The only hitch might be the small army of Blackwater stooges who may attempt to protect him but since they are hired guns beholden to nothing but the allmighty dollar I’m sure there would be many in this world who would be more than willing to outbid Bushboy to pay off the mercinaries (I’d suggest paying them in euros).

I just watched McClellan on C-span and his criticism of Bush and others seems extremely soft with all kinds of excuses. With that said I commend him for speaking up. Judging by the response from the right hes in for a very rough ride

That being said I want to thank everyone here. I want to thank you all because you love this country. You love it more than your own party affiliation. And so do I. You love the constitution, and as far as I can see the only time you overstep the bounds of the constitution is in your wanting the central government to do too much for the good of the common man.

I stopped watching corporate news a few years ago when they became mouth pieces for the white house. I turned to news outlets like think progress in order to read the truth.

For years now the right wing trolls would come in here and on every similar site and say that we are lying, that we were all conspiracy nuts, and now the main propaganda person for the white house has come forward and validated everything that we have ever said.

Damn it feels good to be right.

Thank you, Scott, for validating everything we said was happening in the run up to the Iraq war. I forgive you for lying to us before. But don’t let it happen again.

Don’t take it personal, Scott, but I still want you to do jail time for your part in the conspiracy, otherwise I’d be soft on crime and as a good right winger I know that you despise soft on crime people.

Right now I am just eating popcorn grinning from ear to ear watching the Neocons imploding. Right now the distrust is building between them all, and they are wondering who will be next to tell the truth about what happened.

Transparency is the buzz word in business for not fudging the facts to make something look better than it actually is. Perhaps Ari should be searching for a little transparency.

You know, I actually think the neocons thought the progressive movement was dead, and that we would slide meekly into corporate/fascism.

Our anger scares them. They SHOULD be scared.

The truth can not be clearer of the theft, treason, mass murder and lies and we STILL have some on the right calling We the People names to divert reality? Can those on the right be that stupid?
All We the People really want is for all to obey the Constitution, where as it appears, those on the right still want the theft of our treasury, treason, murders, and the complete ruination of our country.

Go figure.

Words like “fact”, “truth”, “proof”, “partisan”, “propaganda”, “misdirection”, “lies”, “deception”, “wool over the eyes”, “is”, “and”, and “the”, etc….

Cheers,

Scott uses the very same words that the far-left uses and I find that troubling.

And indeed you should, but I would guess not for the right reasons…