This might say more about me than I want said

[madokie]

but I like listening to Scott McCellan explain himself. It appears he came into this hearing knowing full well that he would be hit from every angle, up and down, left or right. I believe he does want to get the truth out and is not just in it for the money or revenge as the re:puke: are trying to make it out to be. I like the way he will not give up on trying to say what he wants to say to answer the questions too.

[Ian David]

1. I think he has a public abuse fetish.

I think McClellan and Bush had a sexual fetish arrangement going on.

Bush got a kick out of watching Scotty being abused, and Scotty enjoyed it, and got off on it.

By the end of a press conference, you could tell that Scotty was "lost in subpsace," having thoroughly given himself over to his little bondage scene, using David Gregory and Helen Thomas as his unwitting Master and Mistress.

He even brought in a gay male prostitute named Jeff Gannon to join in his daily BDSM scenes.

It couldn't possibly be more clear.

Sending Scotty out to be abused was Bush's power-trip. Whether Bush sexualized this or not is anyone's guess.

Being abused was Scotty's fetish.

And Jeff Gannon's 19 sleep-overs in The White House was Scotty's reward.

It all makes sense now.

[smoogatz]

2. Penance.

Some people find it a cleansing experience. I think McClellan's got some things to feel guilty about, and is working toward some kind of public expiation. Nobody wants to be remembered as the public toady for the most corrupt, incomptetent and undemocratic administration in modern history, do they?

[Sal Minella]

4. Or maybe he's hoping for a free pass when justice comes crashing in on this criminal administration.

He can plead, "You guys already know if I'd been part of it, I wouldn't have tattled."

[madokie]

5. But you know it sure looks and sounds to me like that Scott is on the up and up

[Sal Minella]

9. Yes -- but I think a person can be on the up-and-up and out to save his own hide simultaneously.

[Demit]

6. Does it look like justice is anywhere near crashing down on this administration?

I mean, really. Waxman has given up trying to get Cheyney's records; the White House has gotten away with destroying its emails; Karl Rove will probably be allowed to testify without being under oath; and Congress has happily given Bush retroactive immunity for the telecoms spying on us. If that's what the beginning of the end looks like, justice is gonna be a long time coming.

[Sal Minella]

8. You are right. But I will continue clinging to my thread of hope. Because I can't not.

Because I burst into tears and can't function.

[madokie]

3. Interesting

[spanone]

7. he sounds credible to me. they are dismayed that scotty didn't run to them with misgivings

they would have thrown him under the bus and backed over him repeatedly.

[Ikonoklast]

10. Something is going on here

I can't quite put my finger on it, but for some reason I sense an undercurrent to these hearings, as if this is just the start of something, and this is just a base or starting point.

Call it wishful thinking, but I just have this feeling....of what exactly I can't say.

[Cleita]

11. I agree with you Madokie.

It may be a little too late, but I think he is sincere and wants to right the record regardless of what is thrown at him from both camps. Never kill the messenger. He may not have told you everything and the best is yet to come.