Sucks To Be McClellan

To be the press secretary in the talking points presidency would be bad enough but when all hell breaks loose in the next day or so, it is gonna get worse. Way worse. The pudgy, pasty balding dude that repeats the same damn mantra to a breathless pencil toting horde every day is going to have to change his routine. Saying every day that the President looks forward to looking forward isn't going to work any more.

Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for McClellan, who is, like Harriet Miers, a Bush bootlicker from Texas. He owes his career to Manhands, of all people, so qualified she: a Dallas teevee reporter by trade and training, now an undersecretary of state. But I digress.

I just thought it would be worth looking at McClellan's resume and wouldn't you know it, like Miers, he is probably qualified for a seat as an associate justice on the You-nyeda States Supreme Court: he was the president of the TKE fraternity then thrice his mommy's campaign manager for Texas Comptroller.

After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Texas Alpha Chapter, McClellan was the three-time campaign manager for Texas comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, his mother. His performance caught the eye of Karen Hughes, Governor Bush's communications director, and she hired him to be Bush's deputy press secretary. McClellan served as Governor Bush's traveling press secretary during the 2000 Presidential election. With Bush in the White House, McClellan became deputy communications director.

Wow, my dad was a TKE president...