One Less Liar. The Bush Administration's press secretary, Scott McClellan, has resigned. Big whoop.
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The cabal of liars known formally as "The Bush Administration" is responding to pressure from its conservative supporters to clean house and get some new blood into the Administration by trimming a few nobodies on the periphery, mere functionaries who carry out the orders of the core members of the collective leadership for which Dubya is only poster boy and puppet. The Real Presidency — that inner circle of co-conspirators in mass murder abroad and reduction of the bulk of the population to economic slavery at home — is standing fast.
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Rumsfeld isn't going anywhere because he is an important part of the Real Presidency, and the only way he could be ousted, if at all, is by a massive vote of the inner circle. They might not even risk that because Rumsfeld might blow the whistle on the collective nature of the Real Presidency and reveal for all to see that Dubya is no more President of the United States than Howdy Doody formed his own sentences.
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Nor is Karl Rove, another member of the Republican Politburo, going anywhere, tho his duties are supposedly being shifted from controlling aspects of policy to working on the next election.
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We don't know who all the members of the Real Presidency are, but when we see the Andrew Cards and Scott McClellans depart, we can be certain that they were only servants of the Politburo, not integral members of the Junta.
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The python that is strangling this country is shedding its skin, but its musculature, heart, brain, and other internal organs remain, alas, intact.
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McClellan was a teflon kind of guy. He could utter the most outrageous lies, and push aside question after question that the White House didn't want answered, but we were supposed to let it pass because he's a big, pudgy, roly-poly sweetheart, like a puppy. And even when a puppy goes doodoo on the rug, you can't help but love him anyway. The press corps couldn't even push McClellan's nose into the sh*t he shoveled by condemning him as a shameless liar.

"Baby-faces are seen as more honest than mature faces. No doubt, there is a 'choir boy' look that researchers haven't yet fully documented. When they do, I bet it will include smooth complexion, wide eyes, and a large forehead (relative to the chin). These baby-face features convey an innocent look.

Not everyone was charmed or disarmed.

You really have to read Michael Wolff's savaging of White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan in the lastest issue of Vanity Fair to believe it. Wolff calls McClellan a "knucklehead Socrates," "low-wattage," a "pawn", "not the brightest bulb," a "helpless and irresistable target," "strikingly out of his depth," derides him for "verbal haplessness," "ham-handedness" and "lack of verbal acumen," and compares him to Squealer from Animal Farm and Piggy from the Lord of the Flies.

Did Scott McClellan know that he was shoveling sh*t? Or did the Junta just tell him lies and leave it to him to spread them far and wide? I don't know, but suspect they wouldn't let him know the truth for fear he might have a shred of decency that would show when he tried to lie to a roomful of reporters. Maybe the Junta will select a woman to replace him, since women are famous for being more easily able to brazenly look you straight in the eye and lie than are men.
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Lo and behold, when I Googled "scott mcclellan's replacement", what should come up but this speculation nine days ago:

The President has named Dana M. Perino ... as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary. Ms. Perino recently served as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary at the White House. This makes her heir apparent to Scott McClellan, who is expected to depart this summer.

Interesting — and logical. Dana Perino is easy on the eyes, and therefore television-ready. And if David Gregory starts giving her a hard time, he may come off looking like a bully, unless Perino can give as good as she gets (which, considering her resemblance to Heather Locklear, is certainly possible).

McClellan's actual resignation is too recent to have produced many results on Google, but I found a laff-out-loud parody of the White House press secretary at http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2005/11/mcclellen_out_m.html, wherein McClellan is replaced by a wise-ass Stick Figure who 'sticks' it to the press corps. Would that the reality were as funny as the parody. But it's not.
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The sad fact is that the Bush Administration lies to the American people endlessly and shamelessly, and expects us to believe every outrageous lie it issues because of the Big Lie dynamic I described Monday, that people in general just can't believe that they would dare to insist on something that is absolutely, flat-out false. But they do, all the time, and we've got to hold them accountable in November.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,378.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:13 PM