Ol’ Bobbie knows a thing or two about dressing down a man, you betcha. Imagine if even half this enthusiasm and fire had been present in 1996? He might have won. . . a few states, anyway.

But guys like Scott McClellan really drop a deuce in the old bran flakes for guys like Bob. Writing a tell-all book about a potentially criminal president instead of taking action is worse than interrupting Matlock to televise a Gay Pride parade. But in fairness to Bob, he is right, of course: if you know the country’s being led by a potential criminal, you should probably resign at minimum.

Jonathan Martin’s Blog: Bob Dole unloads on McClellan - Politico.com

Dole assures McClellan that he won’t read the book — “because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job”

“That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively,” Dole concludes. “You’re a hot ticket now but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?”

However, as is equally clear from some of the lines quoted in the book so far, there remains to this day in Scottie a certain quasi-homosexual, sycophantic obsession with George Bush that allows him to blame nearly every single thing on anyone else but Bush. It’s the same “cult of personality” effect that seems to have kept things pretty well in check, and defections to a minimum, in the Bush Administration up till now. Even in the cocaine discussion - where I’ve been willing to give him a lot more credit than the MSM - Scott prefers to wallow in the kind of pop-psych bull typically reserved for crying teenage girls pouring out their hearts to their friends over a Haagen-Dazs.