McClellan throws Bush under the bus

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has written a scathing memoir to be published next week about President Bush and his Iraq policies, saying Bush was "not open and forthright on Iraq and took a permanent campaign approach to governing" at the expense of candor and competence.

McClellan was a Bush friend from Texas, and his brother Michael McClellan was an official in the Bush Heatlh, Education and Welfare Department. But the stench of inconsistency and turncoat attitudes runs in the family.

Their mother, Carole Stayhorn, was a Democrat who became a Republican and was elected State Auditor of Texas. She ran for Governor in the primary against incumbent GOP Gov. Rick Perry, lost, and then left the party to run as an Independent against Perry again in the general election in 2006. She and wacko lefty Kinky Friedman cancelled each other out, allowing the underdog Perry to be re-elected in a landslide.

Scott McClellan left his White House post to go to Texas and run his mother's campaign. The video, which has played widely the last two days on television and the internet, of his departing press conference, is highly complimentary of Bush and his policies.

Since it runs in the family to put personal ambition and feathering your own nest ahead of party and personal loyalty, it is not surprising that McClellan would throw Bush under the bus in order to sell books. The book is number one in advance orders on Amazon.com, since word came out of what it contained.

The book is such a naked and shameless money and publicity grab, that it will probably do Bush more good than harm. McClellan better bank all the money from the book. His career is in ashes. He has no credibility left.