As Scottie Sowed, So Is He Reaping

Matt, conservatives do not push school vouchers because all private schools are better. They push school vouchers because they want parents to have a choice. When there is choice, there is competition. When there is competition, the bar of quality is raised. Too many public schools are failing our children. Why should the poor be forced to keep their children in these failing schools? Since the Democrats have controlled many of the school districts in which these failing schools are located, one can question the sincerety of the Democrats desire to educate our children. They would rather kowtow to the unions and place the unions' interest above our children.

$4 per gasoline is now a reality. $5 per gallon is right around the corner. Some forecasts have gasoline possibly going to $15 per gallon within the next five years. There are only two ways to lower the price of gasoline: Increase supply and decrease demand. We have not had a new refinery built in over twenty years. Over TWENTY YEARS!!! It's not for a lack of interest in building. It is because the Democrats and the environmentalists have block construction for over twenty years. As for drilling, thousands of oil dereks were shut down in the 1980s and 1990s. And in some places they were filled in with cement. This was the policy of the Liberal environmentalists. They knew there would be a call to reopen the oil dereks. By filling in the dereks with cement, this would make an immediate opening impossible.

I agree that we need to begin using alternative fuels. But that won't happen over night. In the meantime our economy is being dragged down by the CURRENT high cost of energy. And there is no end in sight. If we immediately began drilling and producing more of our own oil, the cost of oil futures will drop significantly. And the sooner that we (the United States of America) can begin producing an additional 50-100 million barrels a day the quicker we can break our dependancy on OPECs oil. You are right, if Congress gave the green light for this right now, it will take several years before it would come to fruition. BUT if Congress waits another fives years before giving the green light, then it will be that much longer. If they never give the green light, then our economy will suffer for decades. They need to act now both in increasing our supply of oil (more drilling & more production) AND in decreasing the demand for oil (quickly developing alternative fuels).

BUT the Democrats would rather keep education and energy as election-year issues rather than solving these problems. They say they are the Party of the people. Actually they are the Party of the federal government. They want the federal government to be the answer to everything. The Liberal wing of the Party despises the public sector. They despise the free market and capitalism.

The Truth will prevail. HONEST-LOGIC

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If SM really believed all he says not he is a complete coward and traitor for not speaking out to the press then and saving all the "Blood and Treasure" that has been spent.
He too has the blood of all lives lost on his hands.

Folks, this is all about money. McClellan is striking while the iron is hot. His timing is impecable, the real start of the next Presidential campaign, Bush still in office and the Democrats in control. Why should Americans outside the beltway believe anything in this book? If we should not believe anything Bush or any politican says then why should we start with McClellan, now if he was a Stateman like Senator Everett Dirksen was or Joe Liberman is now then that would be different. Remember in everything Washinton follow the money.

I would much rather have a third McBush term than a second OCARTER term.

Obama says the war was caused by not enough and bad info given to Bush and Obama says he will talk to our enemies but not our generals or go to Iraq to see for himself what is going on "Where's the change"?

Where are the xtra states Obama talked about in MEXICO?

When someone is part of an organization, they do not want to blow the whistle on any part of it. Once the individual feels the safety of time and distance, they then begin to feel "safe" about comming out. You cannot judge the past actions and opinions of what this man said while still serving the president, that would be very ignorant judgement.

McClellan got the drop on his former bosses at the White House. His book is on the shelves now while the rest of them have to keep their traps shut til after Bush is gone or risk excommunication. He's going to rake in the money that they would have gotten. It's all about the money. The truth is that Bush doesn't take care of his friends after he's finished with them, there's no honor among thieves.

FDuquette: "In Canada, you must sign such agreements into perpetuity, and can only be trumped under oath in court."

So in Canada the public has no right to know what is going on in the bowels of government? And I thought that Canada was a democracy. Knowing what is going on in government is absolutely essential to a democracy. And there are things going on in government that only insiders know.

Here in the United States we are concerned that whistle blowers have some protection; in Canada, apparently, whistling blowing is a crime.

"I just know that historians will certainly be a lot kinder to the Bush Administration."

This is exactly the kind of lunacy one sees when a story ends up being linked on Drudge. Nothing else can quite match it for bringing them out from under their rocks.

Scott is hearing only one thing today:

KA-CHING!

$$ is why he wrote this book.

"For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."

James Danley --

Conservatives, have already run this country nearly into the ground, $9 trillion dollars in debt. Liberals may control the urban school districts, but the conservatives control the money. There is a direct correlation between quality of education in school districts and average income level. Conservatives continue to push for school vouchers and choice in where parents send their kids, stating that private schools are better. In fact a new Dpt of Education report shows that public and private education are about equal. Math scores between public and private schools are the same, private out performs public in reading scores.
This notion that conservatives have that private sector always is best, simply does not hold up to fact. Public education in this country is declining in part because of republicans consistently favoring private over public. De-funding public schools or hamstringing them with metrics that are derived only from standardized tests.

To your point about gas, drilling our way out of the current problem is a very short sighted solution. Any new drilling, say in ANWR, isn't going to provide any immediate relief. It will take YEARS before ANWR would be productive. Even if it had been opened up in 2003-4, it wouldn't be able to provide relief now. Conservatives seem to life in this alternate reality where resources are unlimited. Oil is going to run out someday. The US can either prepare for that inevitability, or hide our heads in the sand. Increased fuel efficiency and development of alternative energy sources will not only reduce prices but also allow for energy independence.

Don't U.S. government employees sign confidentiality agreements? Im surprised that white-house staffers and former dog-catchers can write these tell-all books in the first place.
In Canada, you must sign such agreements into perpetuity, and can only be trumped under oath in court.

Mc has no credibility. He wasn't even the WH spokesman when the war started. He wasn't involved in any of the run up to the war and had not one iota of knowledge of what was said, much less going on. He wants his 15 minutes of fame but it will be as a liar and a turncoat.

It breaks my heart to read so much hate talk from my fellow citizens. I guess it is true what they say: "...if you hear a lie enough times you will believe it to be factual..." I can remember back to FDR and every president has been the target malicious lies which history eventually corrects. Don't get me wrong, our Presidents haven't all been completely free of mistakes.

There is a difference between an honest mistake and malfeasance. For all of you who are part of this latest round of Presidential hate, and scaremongers, have you asked yourselves if what you claim is true why hasn't this new congress started impeachment proceedings against our President and Vice President? Could it be they prefer the dark.

I hope Scott sells lots of his books and makes tons of money, isn't that what going to Washington DC is really about? Loyaltye463 8g1is over rated in the work place, there really isn't such a thing as a loyal employer so why do we expect a terminated employee to be loyal? That is just silly.

Regardless of what his intentions are, what McClellan said on the Today Show today is right. Most politicians go into Washington with high ideals but soon realize that if you don't play the game, you won't be there for long. So they start playing the game hoping they'll get something accomplished and end up disconnected from the real world and out of touch in their Washington bubble.

Excellent post James Danley. 'nuff said.

Dan Bartlett is going around stating that the reason for going to war was based on "flawed intelligence." However, there are some who believe that this Intelligence was not flawed, but MANUFACTURED, as in the forged Niger documents yet to be truly investigated! I cannot in good conscience let Dan Bartlett's statement go unchallenged!

David Gregory thinks it is ok for the Bush Whitehouse people to come out and say the exact same identical talking points, as if they are devoid of a thinking, rational mind and are unable to use their own ideas -- ideas which might get them in trouble, however. This form of speaking in this manner is Brainwashing and dictorial, and it is not ok. And, I think David Gregory knows this. This type of brainwashing and parrot-like mimicking and chorus from our elected officials is indefensible and inexcusable in a working democracy.

And many are shooting the messenger and missing the point, the content of the book the glimpse it gives into a mind or a group of minds who thought it important enough to invade a country which has not invaded us, something never done before in American history and boarders on barbaric! What matters when he wrote it or why he wrote it, when we are getting a sliver of a glimpse into the truth and inner workings towards a war which should never have been Authorized and waged!

And YES, the Media failed us then and it looks as if they are failing us now. Going all around the issues that this war was planned first and then reasons given out later to fit the scenari and that maybe the so called intellegence was most likely manufactured! If I, who am just an average Joe knew that this war was wrong and most likely manufactured way back when, when a few courageous people stood up and said NO to this war against the chorus of the Yes Men and Women, then the Main Stream Media, shoud have also known or at least asked the hard questions, something they failed to do. This lesson in history is not only a failure of the Bush administration due to lies and distortion but also of a Media who did not do their job and was led by their "journalistic" noses to enjoin into a disastrous and unjust course of action which has badly devastated and devitalized the American way of life and those too of the Iraqi people. There is no true reconstruction moving forward in Iraq or in America -- are bridges are falling for God's sakes and our Cranes, weekly or monthly around the United States there are incidents of cranes falling! Where is the media on those stories? No, they rather spend hours on superficial stories on Britney Spears, hollywood socialites, Rev. Wright, Barack's bowling score, how many beers did Hillary drink, Saturday Night Live skits, etc. There are a few champions in the Media but they are few indeed and often silenced out! Hopefully this tide will turn and journalists will find and live up to their calling again!

Scott McCllean's book is a story waiting to be finished. Slowly, steadily the truth will emerge, layer by layer until the whole pattern takes shape and form, as in the unburdening of our conscience of some long-dark held secret — the full pattern has yet to emerge, this is just a part.

Theo, you wrote: "I believe Scott and can understand why he waited until he was out of the White House to voice his opinion." Scott McClellan left the White House on Apr 26, 2006. Just over TWO years ago. According to several individuals who have continued to keep in contact with Scott, as late as last year, Scott never expressed any of the comments that are said to be in his book. To the contrary he continued to defend the Administration and the lead up to the War in Iraq.

Gene, I know that there is nothing that I can say that will change your (or many of the commenters') opinions of the Bush Administration. I just know that historians will certainly be a lot kinder to the Bush Administration.

Part of me wonders if maybe we shouldn't just let the Liberals take over the country for four years so that you and the whole world can see just how misguided the Liberals are. My rationalization is that you (and the others) will then actually witness what real "dragging this country through the mud" is...but then the consequences of even four years might be so huge that I really can't wish that upon us.

I listen to Sen. Obama's rhetoric (and that is all it is, rhetoric). He talks about the need to improve our school systems. Yet he had been in a position to actually make positive changes to the Illinois school systems. And they are worse now. In fact, the Democrats have had control over most of the largest urban school districts in the United States for decades. Democrats don't want to solve problems...they want the problems to remain so that they can use the problems as issues when running for re-election. Education has been an issue in every election for the last 60 years -- even when the Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress by nearly veto-proof majorities.

And then there is the issue of the high cost of gasoline. The Democrats are using the $4.00 plus per gallon of gasoline as an issue. But not only have the Democrats advocated raising the federal tax on gasoline $1-$3, but many have actually said that we Americans should be paying the same price ($6-$8) that the Europeans are paying. But on this issue it has not been just rhetoric. For decades the Democrats have actually blocked efforts to increase our supply of oil. They block new drilling. They block building new refineries. And now the Democrats want to implement a windfall tax on the oil companies. This will only lead to even higher prices.

And while we're suing, let's remember to sue the democrats who believed the CIA and foreign agencies who said Sadham had weapons of mass destruction and was ready to use them. Sue Ma Clinton and Obama. They believed too. I must admit. From what I've heard, items from Scott's book doesn't sound like the Scott I remember. Another David Brooks?

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Now he's serving black coffee to anyone who wants to sober up.
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Great post. Great analogy!