A little over a year ago, Scott McClellan was a guest on Real Time and sat through one of Bill Maher's best "New Rules" segments ever -- the one one elitism.
About 1:15 into the Clip, Maher calls Bush "President Shit-for-Brains." I remember thinking McClellan was a good sport about Maher's line -- he laughed good naturedly -- but now I'm thinking he actually agreed with Maher.
On another note, Keith Olbermann raised a good question -- now that McClellan has raised these allegations, will Colin Powell step forward?
And finally, on the same topic but somewhat tangential: I know there is a wide range of opinion on the political consequences of impeachment, and whether or not they should be taken in to account. One important thing to remember is that it's really impossible to predict the political consequences of impeachment without knowing what the evidence for impeachment was.
For sake of argument, if the evidence for impeachment were a report by Henry Waxman -- well, that's probably going to lead to a politically disastrous impeachment trial. On the other hand, if both McClellan and Powell step forward with evidence that Bush lied about WMD -- not hearsay, but actual documents -- then wouldn't the country demand impeachment?
© Jed Lewison