Why is Scott McClellan's Book News?

That question, asked and answered at Nukes & Spooks.

But the responses to McClellan from the Bush administration and media bigwigs, history-bending as they are, compel us to jump in. As we like to say around here, it's truth to power time, not just for the politicians but also for some folks in our own business.

The stellar performance of McClatchy journalists is undeniable, and they deserve our thanks for reporting, and asking the tough questions, while the major networks and the so-called liberal media were sucking their collective thumbs.

When McClellan pledges all income from this endeavor to the victims of his boss's war crimes I should be quite happy to entertain the notion we "need" men like him. Men with a front row seat, as it were, to tell us what happened. I know what happened! We were lied into a misbegotten war for no good reason. And now, more than 4000 dead Americans, score of thousands of dead Iraqis cry out from the grave for justice. McClellan was the willing mouthpiece of an administration filled with war criminals. We might spare him the gallows for his treachery, but his puppetmasters deserve no such leniency.

Thus Spake...

“War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.” -- James Madison

The Washington political game is Decadent and Depraved.

Will the Washington press corps will return to the peak of its awesome, but normally dormant potential—much as it did during the Watergate debacle? The Washington press corps is more interested in access to naked power than its is in the unvarnished truth. They drink the free liquor of the political in crowd, and feed us the scraps of what they call the truth. What turned out to be the biggest media bungle of the early 21st century has yet to be investigated with the full force and ferocity required to shed light on what may soon be know as the Biggest Fucking Mistake in American Foreign Policy History.

Whoa! Is that Representative Z wearing his mother’s panties? Let’s interrupt this report on White House war criminals to bring you an important update on the Rep Z saga.

NEWFLASH: Rep Z is apparently NOT wearing his lapel pin. The scandal is deepening.

Pre-emptive War in the Time of Seduction

Liberal Hawks are wrong. Tony Judt bitch slaps the liberal hawks for goose stepping with the Former Cheerleader and his gang of thugs. Money quote? Read the entire piece, its all Money.

(h/t Matthew Yglesias)

The Doctor is in

"It is bad business to go into War without a target."

- Hunter S. Thompson, from Hey Rube!, September 17, 2001