Thanks for being a whore for your job, something most of us can understand, but at least coming clean in the end, which most of us only hope to be able to do.
This has got to be embarrassing if the Bushies are capable of experiencing the feeling of embarrassment, which is debatable, at least.
The original predictor of this was here, long ago. One of several money quotes:
But the contrast with Clinton is two-sided. As Joe Klein has so strongly captured him, Clinton was “the natural,” a leader with a genuine interest in the policy process who encouraged information-rich decision-making. Clinton was the policy-wonk-in-chief. The Clinton administration drowned in policy intellectuals and teemed with knowledgeable people interested in making government work. Every domestic issue drew multiple policy analyses that certainly weighted politics, media messages, legislative strategy, et cetera, but also strongly weighted policy-relevant information, stimulated substantive policy debate, and put a premium on policy knowledge. That is simply not Bush’s style. It fits not at all with his personal cum presidential character. The Bush West Wing is very nearly at the other end of this Clinton policy-making continuum.”
Scottie just confirmed everything DeLulio said, and he was even closer to the horror. The Press Secretary quite literally speaks for the Administration to whom they serve.
W.P.E.
Update: Funny take, here.
