“ScottyGate” Continues To Torque Off Republican Leadership
H/T to MemeOrandum –
Jonathan Martin, of The Politico, has obtained and published a copy of an email sent yesterday from former Republican presidential candidate, Senator and Congressman, Bob Dole to Scott McClellan over his controversial new “tell all” book entitled “What Happened“:
There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues,” Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning. “No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.
In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you,” Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas in the House and Senate. “No doubt you will ‘clean up’ as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, ‘Biting The Hand That Fed Me.’ Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years.
That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively,” Dole concludes. “You’re a hot ticket now but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?
BOB DOLE
WOW. SCATHING. I cannot help but agree with some of Mr. Dole’s colorful adjectives to describe Scotty McClellan…
But, then again, consider the source: the current Watergate (yes, THAT “Watergate”) resident who tried his very BEST as the Republican Party’s national chairman during President Richard Milhouse Nixon’s Watergate Scandal to sweep the criminal activity under the carpet, out of the public, and behind closed doors. In other words, the same “Bob Dole” who pursued “technically”, “questionably”, “legal” (remember, the man’s STILL a practicing lawyer) measures to help his ole’ buddy Richard Nixon in the Watergate coverup.
A trip down Mem’ry Lane; from The Washington Post:
“… Then the Republican Party’s national chairman, Dole was a vocal defender of the Nixon White House during the early stages of the Watergate investigation. U.N. Representative George Bush took over Dole’s party post after the 1972 elections, but the senator remained a Nixon loyalist. In September 1973, he introduced an unsuccessful Senate resolution to stop live TV coverage of the congressional Watergate hearings. “It is time to turn off the TV lights,” Dole said. “It is time to move the Watergate investigation from the living rooms of America and put it where it belongs — behind the closed doors of the committee room and before the judge and jury in the courtroom.”
Later, Dole was one of the most prominent GOP lawmakers to urge Nixon to comply with a congressional subpoena seeking the president’s secret Oval Office recordings.
The Senate Watergate investigation cleared Dole of any involvement in 1974. …”
Yeppers — it’s easy to conclude ole’ Bob Dole understands clearly what it’s like to be an apologist for a corrupt Republican Administration, and he clearly understands how hard it is to mount a successful coverup with those pesky “gnats” swarming around, getting in the way of The Truth with a capital “T”.
Like I said, always CONSIDER THE SOURCE…
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4:21 pm on June 2nd, 2008 1
GTL Posted
“Dole was a vocal defender of the Nixon White House during the early stages of the Watergate investigation.”
Have you considered the possibility that Sen.Dole ACTUALLY did not know how corrupt the Nixon Whitehouse was? It seems that once he was aware..
“Later, Dole was one of the most prominent GOP lawmakers to urge Nixon to comply with a congressional subpoena seeking the president’s secret Oval Office recordings.”
I am actually growing weary of this impugning the other “side” with sinister motives. I suppose it works well when one’s own “side” is out of power to make one feel better. The problem is that it fosters a perpetual sense that “they” are out to get “us”. Not a good recipe when the Republic has problems that “we” better damn well cooperate on.