Scott McClellan: The proof is in the pudding

I hope none of ye socks will waste your money on the book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan when it is released on Monday, and not just because it's a bunch of hogwash. But, also because I just don't believe in rewarding bad behavior.

Those of you from the great and sovereign Lone Star State probably saw this coming as long as I have, because we're more familiar with Scotty-boy's family background than most folks in this country.

His mother, Carol Keeton Strayhorn, is a political opportunist of such magnitude that she could only get away with it in a state as big as Texas. We all remember her as the liberal Mayor of Austin who backed Walter Mondale for president in 1984; figured out how dumb that was and became a RINO; then sought to unseat the incumbent Republican governor in 2006. Fortunately, she's basically harmless, as she was unsuccessful in all three of those endeavours. Unfortunately, her boy inherited her lack of integrity.

His paternal background, however, offered an even more obvious clue about Scotty's lack of a moral compass. His father, Oliver Barr McClellan, worked as an attorney in the Lyndon Johnson administration, only to later become the author of tripe that has become fodder for countless conspiracy nuts: Blood, Money, and Power: How LBJ killed JFK. That's right, his daddy backstabbed the president he worked for, too.

Like father, like son, I guess.

Fortunately, in Papa McClellan's case, people quickly clued-in to his lack of character and forced him to surrender his license to practice law.

I don't know what lays in store for Scotty-boy, but hope it is slightly less than the proverbial 15 minutes of fame followed by the perpetual irrelevance he so richly deserves. To paraphrase the motto of the great Commonwealth of Virginia: SIC SEMPER PRODITOR!

Until then, I will leave you with a few quotes:

It appears to be more about trying to justify personal views and opinions than it does

about looking at the results that we are achieving on behalf of the American people.

-- Scott McClellan, on former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's book.

Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise them sooner?!?

-- Scott McClellan, on former anti-terror chief Richard Clarke's book.