Scott Free?

It's been a full week now since the Scott McClellan bombshell hit with his part payback/part confessional book What Happened, and I've noticed a few interesting developments that poor Scotty's ploy have exposed:

With us or Against us
The publishing of Scotty's book is yet another entry in the Bush Administration's hopelessly simple "with us or against us," "good vs evil" philosophy that has dominated some of the more disastrous policies in our nation's history. Amidst all the "puzzlement" that seems to be rampant among Bush loyalists who are, well, "puzzled" at McClellan's betrayal is the black and white simplicity behind our, well, simple government (and when I say simple, I mean the simple oaf from Alabama who spends his days stroking a piece of velvet).

Finally!
While Scotty's book could have come a few years earlier--imagine the Valerie Plame revelation before Joe Wilson was obliterated--What Happened still gives reinforcement to many of the claims that those of us on the left have been making for some time now. The White House misled the nation into an endless and unnecessary conflict in Iraq. Bush is a simple-minded, ignorant fool who lacks inquisitiveness and refuses to accept contradictory views. Bush himself authorized the CIA intelligence leak that led to the public disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity. Hurricane Katrina was an act of incompetence, not misjudgment. While these were all facts that any well-read American should have known about already, Scotty gives the best validation a former Bush loyalist possibly could.

Humanity?
I briefly mentioned the "betrayal" that McClellan is being branded with earlier in this post, but the true irony in this whole affair is the lack of humanity in our political scene--the inability of the public, press, and politicians to put a human face on the proceedings.

For example, the number one charge that is being leveled at McClellan is timeliness. If he was so perturbed by what he observed as Press Secretary, why did he not step out and speak his mind at a more appropriate time?

Well, there was a little thing called "midlife crisis" involved.

Again, we refuse to admit humanity in this discussion. McClellan is a Bush loyalist to the extreme--a dear friend of Dubya from the good ol' Texas days, Scotty rode this loyalty all the way to the White House, and he was given the positions of Assistant and then true Press Secretary.

In other words, Scotty owes his entire fucking career to Bush. Beyond the material, however, McClellan was a true believer. While it can be argued that he was sucking on the Washington tit, I solemnly think that McClellan came to the capital believing in Bush and his message of bipartisan, compassionate conservatism. Yeah, like such a thing even exists, but back to the point, Scotty's entire ideology for following Dubya to the White House was turned on it's head by deception, illegal wiretaps, and other treasonous activities.

So can we be surprised, really, that he would feel hesitation at scorching such a friend in such a manner?