Aside from the "where exactly is the cashing in" question, isn't Bob awfully testy? They must not have sent him the talking points. Bob, repeat after us. "This isn't the Scott I know."

McClellan should have made a Viagra commercial! That's the way to make real money and keep your dignity.

...he is definitely telling it like it is. Hope McClellan enjoys his 30 pieces of silver. The Democrats have used him like they wanted, and now they will just toss him aside. Who in their right mind could trust that guy now?

I had no idea Dole was such an enormous asshole.

I liked him in the '96 race, but voted Clinton anyway.

Pity he couldn't have run in 2000 and been awarded the Presidency by the SC. He'd have done a much better job than Bush.

They simply deride him for spilling the beans, and confirming what we've all known for years about this corrupt and incompetent administration.

What's worse? To keep one's mouth shut for too long and then finally come clean? Or to maintain the BS-line and pretend the catastrophes of this administration never actually happened?

Um, yeah, the latter.

Loyalty before conscience.

Speaking of conscience, how the hell did this e-mail get out and why do people think it's OK to publish it?

Former Sen. Dole is just jealous. Maybe the prostate is keeping him off Viagra?

was a sarcastic SOB (meant a little bit lovingly, but not much), but I didn't think he was this mean-spirited.

I remember his comment when Bush the First chose Dan Quayle in 1988 instead of (as was widely expected) him. They asked for a comment, and Dole said "oh, I called to congratulate him, but they said he couldn't come to the phone because he was shaving. First time, apparently..."

Like I said, just a little bit lovingly...

Bob's sounding pretty salty! Has his erectile disfunction returned, or has the strain of being married to Elizabeth finally worn down his relative equanimity?

Did Dole GTA the Straight Talk Express?

Can't we nice progressives dislike him without attacking his manhood? That is just dumb.

You're the kind of kneejerk party functionary who would allow US troops to die for the next 100 years for a war that never had to happen wihtout opening your mouth.

Sit down, shut up and wait for Liddy to be retired when she gets her wide ass kicked in November.

Who in their right mind would have trusted McClellan back then?

If memory serves, he was a master of prevarication, slicker than goose shit (as my Daddy here in McClellan's native Texas might say) and constantly evading the press corps. He could stonewall with the best of them--though he was embarrassingly obvious about it--and usually did.

Trust the guy? I doubt it's crossed anyone's mind.

Ol' Bob Dole is pretty salty this morning eh?

This whole thing is starting to sound alot like the steroids in sports thing - when the guilty parties are outed they hit back hardest at the messenger. That's how you know they're guitly as sin...because what their argument boils down to is "who you gonna believe, me or this sack of shit?"

(now I know why the Republicans defended Clemens like they did - he's one of them)

Maybe McClellan should have advertised for Viagra instead, and he wouldn't need hair dye as Dole did.

Bob, you're the wrong person to be giving lectures on selling out.

How are you doing otherwise? Brittany Spears and Pepsi still giving you a hard-on?

He could have been our President.

I'm trying to imagine Carter or Gore or Obama writing something like this to a former colleague. I cannot fathom it.

I think it is unlikely that either Clinton would write something so hostile and petty that might get out in public. Not because they are gracious (see above for that) but because they are too self-aware to intentionally do something that would resonate so negatively.

Kerry wouldn't write such a letter for the same reason.

Bush? Oh hell, yeah. He'd probably include a potty joke. Cheney would write something like that, and include a hint about swimming with the fishes while wearing cement shoes.

The Republicans do not think like leaders, and they have second rate mentalities. That's just all there is to it. No deep analysis necessary. They are very rich, but they are mediocrities. And they know it. Hence their tactics and fascistic bent.

These are the people who want to turn middle class America into a class of serfs to make them richer and richer. Think it over, how much are you willing to forfeit to fight them?

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Dole made several statements to the press playing up the idea that Purple Hearts were given out in Vietnam for superficial wounds, suggesting that John Kerry's Purple Hearts -- the same John Kerry who still has shrapnel in his body from that war -- were undeserved. That Dole would turn on a fellow wounded veteran like that shows him to be without any honor whatsoever. I keep that in mind now whenever anything he says is made public.

one of those disgraceful 'Snitch and Die' t-shirts that the drug gangs distribute. Republicans-we'd RATHER lie.

Maybe he just didn't want to wait until the end to get it out of his system, like Lee Atwater. I have a feeling this trend of book publishing is just beginning.

Looks like old Bob prefers loyalty to your leader over truth-telling. How Soviet of him!

Interesting that the man known as "The Senator From Archer Daniels Midland" has the testicular fortitude to compalin that someone else is "cashing in" on their government service.

Hey Bob! How is that Florida condo of yours, the one you got from the Chairman of ADM for about half price, doing these days?

I'm grateful to the ingrate. Politicos attract minions anyhow; I like it when those minions blab afterwards. The public, and historians, benefit when cronies don't stay bought.

My main complaint with McClellan is that he didn't tell us anything that we didn't know already.