White House Press Secretary Resigns

So he'll be dissembling and obfuscating one last time. I guess old habits are hard to break.

guess theirs an even bigger liar and sycophant waiting in the wings for some bush style ass to mouth.....

I'm going to miss the Scott McLellan comedy show.

The end of that article is unsettling. One day Scott and GW will be rocking on chairs in Texas, reminiscing about the good old days of illegal wars, dead American soldiers, and domestic spying?

And though I've just established myself as a cynic and critic of the administration, I truly found Scott entertaining. Daily he was given the horribly daunting task of deflecting Bush's most glaring mistakes and bad decisions, and it was fun to watch him sweat, and imagine his inner monologue: "I cant ******* believe this bullshit!"

He really wasn't very good at that job. What a horrible liar.

Presumably, they'll get a much better class of liar now.

a better liar to be sure... but not a better class of individual....sending the current crop of politicians to DC is like putting a tuxedo on a pig....

I think you all are being awfully hard on the guy. He had a very very difficult job... and did it for years.

Can you imagine having to defend the policies of the Bush administration day after day without going completely mad?

I certainly wouldn't have lasted more than a couple of weeks.

He did a insanely impossible job without completely losing it. That is better than I think any of us could have managed.

I would buy the guy a beer.

I would get him drunk and tape record all the things he wasn't able to tell us.

I'm with you ebrown...........This guy had to stonewall **** for these bozos for way to long. I'd buy him the second beer.

his decision to be a bush rubber stamp.... screw him... don't try to make him noble....

Ahh blue,

That was his job. Bush was his boss. I guess you haven't had to get by with a crappy job before, eh?

Get real ebrown. Painting Scott as a poor victim who had to get by on a crappy job.... that dog won't hunt.

I detect some bitterness blue, do you want to talk about it? Don't hold back, you will just get an ulcer.

what bitterness? Are you telling me that Scott McClellan's only emplyoment opportunity was to mouthpiece and rubber stamp a black hearted liar day after day with a straight face?

I can think of a great deal of unethical ways to make money that would be more enjoyable....

Mouthpiecing and rubberstamping the president, black hearted liar or not, with a straight face is the job of the press secretary. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.

There are ways to make money that are far less ethical.

would you take the job if the money was good?

And far more, as well.

Sorry, but the "I was only doing my job" defense went out with the Nuremburg trials. The guy wants to be a lying shill for a criminal gang-- and get well paid for it-- that's his perogative. But it doesn't make what he does right, just or moral (or transform him into some kind of martyr) just because he showed up every day and did what he was paid his 30 pieces of silver to do.

Yeah there are plenty of other options one can take if what's being told from the top does not equate to what Americans deserve to know/hear. Better late than never, but I guess we'll hear all about it in a memoir some many years from now. That's gotta be one sucky job.