Scott McClellan in Congress -- it's not the book tour he expected
Scott McClellan, author of "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," didn't exactly get a warm hug of welcome from some members of the Ho
use Judiciary Committee this morning as he began testifying about his White House days, as our colleagues over at the "Countdown to Crawford" blog report.
McClellan, the former press secretary, took a drubbing by Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, over his motives for writing the book. Not that Smith entered the hearing with an open mind: "While we may never know the answers, Scott McClellan alone will have to wrestle with whether it was worth selling out the president and his friends for a few pieces of silver."
Our other colleagues at The Swamp have some more details. But if you want to see for yourself, the hearing is being webcast when the committee is in session (it broke earlier so members could cast votes on the wiretap bill). Below is some video of McClellan's appearance.
-- Scott Martelle
Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images
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Posted by Scott Martelle on June 20, 2008 in Current Affairs , Political History , President Bush , Scandal , Vice President Cheney | Permalink
Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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any combination of the following title in your name "republican and from texas" you have lost all ability to use the terms "selling for pieces of silver" against someone else.
Posted by: gary | June 20, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Lamar Smith is the best. Best congressman for West Texas in forever. Represented us well in the oil business and the price is gonna keep rising because the Democrats are moronic. Keep up your hearings with people like the fat kid there that went to my college and accomplish abosolutely nothing. We are getting wealthier by the minute down here but unfortunately it is going to bankrupt the rest the country if they do not wake up.
Posted by: Walsh | June 20, 2008 at 08:52 PM
It's so funny how people keep saying that we need to drill in more the U.S. when the oil companies have been sitting on thousands of unused oil drilling permits and millions of unused acres ALREADY open to exploration!
Posted by: big gun | June 20, 2008 at 11:38 PM