Anyone want to start a pool on how long Scotty McClellan lasts?

[symbolman]

Kidding, wouldn't want to gamble or get the DU in trouble, but I'm thinking that Scotty's days are numbered..

THere was FEAR on his face today. Dumb, blind FEAR.

And that's Bush's job, they don't like to see anyone else doing that..

Time to spend some time with the old family.. especially after one reporter suggested that Scotty should maybe get himself an attorney or two :)

I bet they are wishing they had Ari back, now THERE was a LIAR!

Scotty plainly doesn't carry a big enough shovel for all the bullshit loading up at the moment, so I'm betting within two weeks he's OUTTA THERE..

any takers?

[rzemanfl]

1. Does anyone know how much that lying POS makes? n/t

[rzemanfl]

2. Great idea for a reality show "The Nice White House Bullshit

Artist" losers get to say they nailed Paula Abdul. Which is really a trick, because the one who says it most convincingly gets the job.

[rzemanfl]

36. Christ I must have been tired last night,! "Next" not nice. n/t

[ObaMania]

5. I think I heard somewhere that he makes 140K n/t

[rzemanfl]

14. That's chickenfeed, what about his stock options? n/t

[ObaMania]

33. Hey, I'd take that chicken feed any day o stand uo there and lie. n/t

[rzemanfl]

35. That is exactly what's wrong with this country, integrity is 4 sale. nt

[PuraVidaDreamin]

3. Can't use 'To spend more time w/ the familly' can he?

And he promised he wouldn't be working on momma's campaign.

[asjr]

9. I think he will keep his job if his mother has

anything to do with it. I bet she knows all the dirt on Shrub and would not hesitate to use the information.

[xray s]

4. I say he resigns on 7/13/05 at 7:53am

The guy was gutted today. It has to hurt.

[mtnester]

6. 10 days or less

definitely before the dog days of summer

[RoyGBiv]

7. Mushmouth Scotty ...

I read an article a year or so ago about McClellan in which the author claimed that Scotty's real problem was that he is not a natural born liar. Ari on the other hand could lie three times in a minute, each lie contradicting the one previous, and not even flinch. Scotty is not, in other words, a good PR man, not "spokesman" material. Don't be mistaken. This does not make him a good person, just bad at his job.

If that is true, we're seeing the fruits of this "flaw" in his skills right now. He is visibly uncomfortable when he's lying or obfuscating. If he were a poker player, his give would be simple to spot. With this, he has a job to do, and with this administration, the primary purpose of this job is to lie. He can't do it.

So, to sorta answer your question, as more and more scandals begin to bring heat even from the sheep mentality of the Press Corps, he will peform worse and worse. The number of days left to him will be dicated to by how well the rest of the MSM is able to cover and or ignore the scandals.

[Ian David]

19. My guess is the pressure becomes too much and he kills himself

Or else he goes so nuts the secret service has to take him down.

I wouldn't wish that upon him, but it's begining to look more and more likely.

[KittyWampus]

8. Ari Was A Great Liar. Got To Give Him Props.

[Maddy McCall]

11. But at least he was smart enough to GTHO.

Can't blame him for leaving. He had to know what was coming.

[KoKo]

22. yeah...lots of us thought at the time that Ari knew what would eventually

be coming down the pike. He was too smart and cared about his own butt to much to go down with the rest of them. Although what's been coming down the pike has taken longer than anyone probably even Ari, thought.

[spanone]

10. If he had any balls he'd walk right now.

[natrat]

12. in his defense

he didn't do all this nasty shit...but how could anyone put themselves in the position of lying for a criminal syndicate daily...what a moron...140k...hope he got some options

[tridim]

13. I thought he'd quit way back in the Gannon days

He must have some incriminating photos of Rove.

[proud patriot]

15. The Fear of nightmares

:evilgrin:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. who would be crazy enough to take his job now?

[peekaloo]

17. August 8 effective as of noon the following day.

;-)

[blondeatlast]

25. Gotta be a Friday afternoon. Monday offers too much time for the press

that spanked him today to publicly celebrate all week long.

[peekaloo]

39. Ghost of Nixon thang.

:D

[Horse with no Name]

18. Very soon

I'd say you are about correct in your estimates.
Now, they'll probably just replace him with Gannon/Guckert.:puke:
It seriously doesn't matter who delivers the message, the evil is being done behind the curtain.

[Geek_Girl]

20. I don't think he's going anywhere

He's Bush's Boy toy ;)

[KoKo]

21. I watched the conference twice on C-Span Repat. Scotty was shaken

and for that Robot to show any emotion has got to mean the WH is in deep conflict. He almost looked like he was going to cry at one point. That's why I rewatched it. I thought I was not seeing what I was seeing the first time.

The Whore Press was crawling all over him...and that speech he gave about terrorists attacking "civilized nations" and the rest of his deep Right Wing Mantra was "UNHINGED!"

I don't think he will last if they keep going at him like this. He's caught in his own lies and maybe for the first time he knew what it feels like to have the tables turned and to know fear the way the rest of us have felt with the unreality of no break from the BFEE's irritational dogmatic ideas and policies.

I vote Scotty takes a vacation...but who the hell will fill in for the guy. Sheesh. They can't fire him, though. :-(

[readermostly]

28. Shockingly, I saw what looked like his almost PC meltdown on Fox, of all

stations. Of course, it was a news update, but that was the only thing talked about on the update. I was so surprised that they devoted any time to this blight on W's inner circle. Scott looked like a trapped deer in the headlights.

[bunny planet]

37. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall after Little Snottie walked

out of that press briefing yesterday. Bets he had the hissy fit of the century. He's so used to Rove threatening reporters to keep them from asking him any follow ups, this is the first time he's had to face them without Uncle KKKarl to protect him.

He is no longer Puffy McMoonface (according to Stephanie Miller) but now has been renamed Chummy McSharkbait.

[blondeatlast]

23. I started a gift registry for his farewell party in the Lounge...

:evilgrin:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3625458

[deadparrot]

24. The freepers want Rush.

I, for one, am in favor of it. :D

[FrankBooth]

26. Absolutely

That would be a gift wrapped from the gods. Rush would be eaten alive within days.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

29. Wouldn't that be a dream come true?

We would get to see him have his tush handed to him on a silver platter. And we could record it and watch it over and over again! Oh, the thought if it! :D

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. How many licks does it take to get to the center of credibility?

I say three days.

[brettdale]

30. Next Press Conference?

When is the next White House Press Conference? Are they held every day?, every week?

[spacelady]

31. isn't 7 come 11 craps? 10/11 for Blackjack!

[Don Claybrook]

32. I'm going against conventional wisdom

He may want nothing more than to quit and go home, lick wounds, that sort of thing. But the Bush White House won't let him resign. It would look too bad. It would look like they have something to hide, which of couse everyone knows, they do.

He's probably heard 2 hours of the "buck up, be a man, and get back out there" speech, maybe from Rove himself.

Here's an interesting counter-question: do you suppose the Cheney-Rumsfeld axis would like to go ahead and jettison Rove? I've always thought that they had one of the idiot's ears and Rove had the other one. I guess Karen Hughes had his...well, I'm out of ears, so nevermind. But we may see her back at the WH soon.

[KoKo]

34. Hughes has been holding off supposedly til her son goes to college in

the fall. But some were complaining she should be in her position now.. What if she knows that Rove is going down, and she's held off until he's out of the picture so she can take his job and hold the Chimp's hand through it all. hmmmmm.......... That might work. Bush will need alot of comfort if Rove goes...or maybe he's so full of himself now that he thinks he can ditch Rove because "The People" will love him more with his "Brain Gone." The true compassionate conservative can thrive under Karen Hughes... .An Awful Thought!

:grr:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

38. Puffy McMoonface is now Chummy McSharkbait.

Thank you Stephanie Miller :D