The Stool Pigeon Comes Home to Roost

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/28/mcclellan.book/index.html

I find that the White House is "puzzled" by McLellan's book funnier than I can possibly express. Puzzled? Because you hung his ass out to dry, and he got pissed? What a peculiar reaction! Some people.

I'm puzzled myself. But only at how long it took him to come out. Seriously. Scott McLellan was the press guy at the height of the Bush White House information embargo. He's the one who got fed to the sharks constantly. Bush wasn't talking. Cheney wasn't talking. Well, Rove was talking sometimes. But mostly he was telling people they were idiots for not agreeing with him. So that left McLellan to play the burning man in front of the press corps. Through the start of the Iraq war. Through Katrina. Through Valerie Plame. Yee-ouch. That is crap duty if ever I've heard of it.

And like any bunch of bullies, the Bush Bunch acts surprised when the whipping boy punches back. "What? We thought he liked getting a pink belly. Why didn't he say something?" Typical. Looks like they don't have Scott McLellan to kick around any more. It will be interesting to see who else decides to tattle now that the Bush era is coming to a close. There have got to be some mighty interesting skeletons in those closets.