Scotty Blasts Kerry

[UnityDem]

Maybe I'm getting senile. However, I can't remember past WH press secretary's ever blasting/mocking sitting US Senators like this. Should they be doing this? Is that their role? Why no outrage from other senators? It may seem trivial to some. However, I think this kind of open contempt for a senator from a non-elected "spokesperson" should not go unchallenged. Reid should say something about this.

This comes from atlanta newspaper story 1/28/06 pageA3 (can't link without subscription) on Kerry filibuster effort:
"Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan gleefully noted that 'even for a senator, it takes some pretty serious yodeling to call for a filibuster from a five star resort in the Swiss Alps'."

[madmom]

1. Yeah but did Abramoff pay for it?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. they are worried, so they bluster.

then again, windsurfing, yelling at secret service that he never falls skiing, and other tantrums gives the bastards in the GOP the opportunity to make him look like a spoiled pretty boy. Of course, if Frist, DeLay, and others had the same proctological microscopic and digital exam they would fare far worse.

[babylonsister]

3. He was seriously disrespectful and somewhat maniacal;

I'm thinking the message frightened them.

[Greeby]

4. At least the words "ongoing investigation" didn't feature anywhere

:shrug:

[rzemanfl]

5. That obnoxious lying little fat fuck lickspittle turd isn't worthy of

a job shining Kerry's shoes.

[rusty charly]

6. was chambliss

yodeling from a 5-star hotel, too? he's in davos also.

[Binka]

10. Saxby Was Busy Boinking A Slab Of Swiss Cheese

[rzemanfl]

15. He could not do that. The holes in Swiss cheese are way too big

for his dick.

[bumblebee1]

25. Saxby would also grow confused.

Now which hole should I stick my dick in? After all, Swiss cheese doesn't hair around the holes.

[sandnsea]

29. Or McCain? Or Sununnu?

Or any of these people who are also there.

Michael Chertoff, US Secretary of Homeland Security

Robert Mueller, Director FBI

Robert Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State

Zalmay Khalilzad, US Ambassador to Iraq

Paul Wolfowitz, World Bank President

Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado

Elaine Chao, US Secretary of Labor

Kevin Martin, Chairman FCC

Josette Shiner, US Undersecretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs

Faryar Shirzad, Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, NSC

John McCain (R-Ariz.)

Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)

John Sununu (R-N.H.)

Congressman Jim Kolbe (R- Ariz.)

[Binka]

7. But His Lick Spittle Might Give John's Loafers A Nice Glean

:evilgrin: Scott McCellan = Satan's Sanitary Napkin

[rzemanfl]

11. Satan's a girl? n/t

[Binka]

14. Think Ann Coulter

She bleeds from the hinterlands too! Not exactly sure why but it is a complicated Devil thing!

[rzemanfl]

17. Yeesh! Gotta go vomit. Good thing I don't believe in heaven or

hell. The thought on Ann Coulter on the rag makes my testicles shrivel.

[helderheid]

26. yea, what you said. :)

[Poppyseedman]

8. Agree with you, but

Kerry was setting himself up to be a target. Not his best move.

Scott could have, should have restrained himself, but what do you expect?

[UnityDem]

12. Just don't think it is the role

of the press secretary to make such ridiculing statements. I have no problem with an opposition party chairman, press pundits, or even other members of the opposition party making these kinds of jabs. However, someone who speaks for the White House should have a little more dignity. McClellan just saying that the White House does not agree with Senator Kerry on the topic would suffice.

[Binka]

13. Every Democrat Who Opens Their Mouth Is An Immediate Target

This was one of Kerry's BEST moves of the last 14 months. You can have your opinion but it is not correct. John ROCKED!:evilgrin:

[no_more_rhyming]

16. Scotty was bad.....funny but bad.

John left the door wide open for that one........

[sandnsea]

28. You don't know the facts

Kerry was in DC on Wednesday. No vote was scheduled. He went to Switzerland. He cancelled both Davos and an event in Ireland in order to come back on Thursday. Frist scheduled that vote when he did because he thought Kerry wouldn't be able to respond. It's only people who are always ready to blame Democrats who don't see the manipulations of the right. He flew back here to protect YOUR rights, and all you can do is shit on him.

[Cats Against Frist]

9. Uh, you didn't notice that hate radio has made it so

our national discourse is at the level of pigs in shit? Gotta get it down to the "common man's" level -- if it isn't WWF, it's too "French." The shit about the ski resort is the most ridiculous thing the RNC has cooked up since "Freedom Fries." Notwithstanding the fact that Kerry made it back to the senate for a floor speech, and there were other Republicans there. They're outright lying, and it's obvious.

This is where the news fails -- any outlet that publishes this is publishing a cheap shot, and nothing more. When the future of our country hangs in the balance, the news should know better than to publish this shit. I know the media has been bought off and gagged when they're discouraging a potentially dramatic, newsworthy (and salient, relevant, etc.) filibuster, and publishing Scotty's cheap shots. We're all fucked.

[zulchzulu]

18. Scotty is a parrot for the Chimp...insert a talking point up his ass...

...and he delivers it with that special unconvincing way he has...

[applegrove]

19. Walking in with a group and laughing at some "enenmy" is just another

way of swiftboating. Not being humiliate is a human need. It also implies you will be isolated from the herd. Look for it more often. Now that swiftboating is getting scoffed at every time it is used.

[Catchawave]

20. Wasn't Kerry at some sort of economic

(?) conference? I don't think he was on vacation, as "gleeful Scotty" implied.

[ticapnews]

22. It was a global economic conference, where among other things...

they are discussing Iran's desire to develop nukes. Not that that's a big deal or anything...

edit to add: I had to watch BBC News to get information about the conference, since our media are too busy to actually report facts.

[ticapnews]

21. As opposed to the resident lounging on his ranch?

Attending a birthday party while New Orleans drowned? Yeah, you're one to talk, Scotty.

[Vinca]

23. Scotty's just pissed because he knows it's just a matter of time

before the Bush photo inscribed "To my dearest friend, Jack" surfaces. Diversion, diversion, diversion.

[AzDar]

24. It doesn't surprise me one bit that the uber-coward, Bush, would have

his little lap dog taking cheap shots at Kerry. God knows he is too chicken(hawk)shit to do it. Also, it requires that one be able to speak in complete sentences.
Bush behaves like a horribly spoiled 3-year-old; a MEAN 3-year-old. The Preschool Administration...

[sandnsea]

27. Why do newspapers print it?

It isn't news, it distorts the importance of the summit and it distorts the fact that the Senator left Davos as soon as Frist scheduled the vote. If First had scheduled the vote before he left, he wouldn't have gone. And First knew that.

[saltpoint]

30. McClellan is a little lord with polished shoes and a smarmy loyalty to the

boss. John Kerry won't spend much time worrying about Scott McClellan.

From my standpoint it was McClellan's boss who cheated Senator Kerry out of a rightful job in November 2004.

If John McCain had any nuts, he would speak loudly and strongly about the White House press secretary defaming a fellow war veteran like that.