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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-15-05 05:57 PM
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Mean-while, over at the WH briefing, here's some fun with Dave and Scott
Mean-while, over at the WH briefing, here's some fun with Dave and Scott:

Q But it's hypocritical. You have a policy for some investigations and not others, when it's a political ally who you need to get work done?

MR. McCLELLAN: Call it presidential prerogative; he responded to that question. But the White House established a policy --

Q Doesn't it raise questions about his credibility that he's going to weigh in on some matters and not others, and we're just supposed to sit back and wait for him to decide what he wants to comment on and influence?

MR. McCLELLAN: Congressman DeLay's matter is an ongoing legal proceeding --

Q As is the Fitzgerald investigation --

MR. McCLELLAN: The Fitzgerald investigation is --

Q -- As you've told us ad nauseam from the podium.

MR. McCLELLAN: It's an ongoing investigation, as well.

Q How can you not -- how can you say there's differences between the two, and we're supposed to buy that? There's no differences. The President decided to weigh in on one, and not the other.

MR. McCLELLAN: There are differences.

Q And the public is supposed to accept the fact that he's got no comment on the conduct of senior officials of the White House, but when it's a political ally over on the Hill who's got to help him get work done, then he's happy to try to influence that legal process.

MR. McCLELLAN: No, not at all. Not at all. You can get all dramatic about it, but you know what our policy is.

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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-15-05 05:59 PM
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1. I don't even know
why people even bother engaging Scott McClellan at all.

What if he gave a press conference and nobody came?
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-15-05 06:01 PM
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3. That's my dream -- that the LEGIT reporters stop going
and leave it to Les Kinsolving and co. to pepper Scottie with inane questions.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-15-05 05:59 PM
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2. to keep his job requires him to constantly put his foot in his mouth!
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Karmakaze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-15-05 06:09 PM
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4. Is it just me...
Or did that reporter almost catch Scotty saying that Bush tried to influence a legal proceeding? Wouldn't that be illegal?
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