WH Transcript: Press Drills McClellan about Bolton, Bush/Reality

[truthpusher]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050620-20.html

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Q What is the answer to Steve's question? I mean, Steve asked you whether there would be any more documents released. What have you decided?

MR. McCLELLAN: We continue to work in good faith to address any concerns, but it's clear that the Democratic leadership isn't interested in more information; they're only interested in blocking his nomination.

Q So you won't be releasing any more documents?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, there has been more information that has been provided to the Democratic leadership, and now yet again they move the goal post, Bill.

Q They continue to ask for more. So the question is --

MR. McCLELLAN: No, they continue to expand the universe of their request for information.

Q All right. So the question is, have you concluded that it's fruitless to offer them any more --

much more at link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050620-20.html

complete transcript: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050620-20.html

[longship]

1. Another head exploder.

I don't know why I ever bother reading these things. They are outright painful. The pure BS is so evident and the twisting of words and the rhetoric arguments are innane.

[gratuitous]

2. The Democrats moved the goal post?

Bullshit, Snottie. The White House still hasn't provided the information from the first request. You're filibustering your own nominee by withholding the records of the entirety of Mr. Bolton's career.

[goclark]

3. Scotty needs to Shut Up and go play with his toys

What an unclass act he is -scum.

[Barrett808]

4. So is the enemy both determined and in its last throes, at the same time?

Q So is the enemy both determined and in its last throes, at the same time?

MR. McCLELLAN: I think I addressed that question earlier.

[merwin]

5. Holy shit. The press grew a backbone overnight.

Q But they say that they want and need this information and that after that, that the nomination will go through, the votes are there, they admit that. You say, no, you're not going to get it. Why is it that it's the Democrats who are ruining the spirit of bipartisanship --

[rox63]

6. They smell blood

And that's good for their bottom lines.

[merwin]

7. They were putting him through the ringer. Not even flinching when Scottie

asked "Are you saying that you're against our troops??". Very good followups.

[cliss]

8. Methinks the Lady Protests

too much.

Notice, how Mr. McConfuse contradicts himself.

"It's clear the Democratic leadership isn't interested in more information..." (looks like they don't want any more information).

Next, "They continue to expand the universe of their request for information". (looks like they want more information).

Well, which is it, Mr. McLiar?

[ninkasi]

9. You have to give credit to Scott for one thing...

He can say absolutely nothing using more words than I've ever seen. His non-answers and evasions are exceeded only by his distortions and outright lies.

How can he get up there and pretend that he's giving an answer to anything? What a pathetic hack. Oh, and another thing...I'm sick of this wimp always going on about what the American people want, when public opinion says otherwise.

[truthpusher]

12. He's a frikin' machine!

[NYC Liberal]

15. He's certainly getting close to Ari's level! And that is saying something!

[uppityperson]

10. Determined, and in their last throes?

These press briefings are getting much better to read, although "I already answered" is being repeated more and more often. Hey Scotty, if you already answered, we all missed your answer beyond "I already answered."

[njdemocrat106]

11. McClellan insults my intelligence more than anybody else in BushCo

I want to see that SOB in a prison jumpsuit along with Bush, Cheney, Rummy, and every other member of the Bush Crime Family.

[insane_cratic_gal]

13. Scotty makes you miss Ari

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030714-4.html

Looks to be his last one.. all about the intell related to Niger/uranium.. was british intell and not CIA intell that was told to be untrue and unfounded. I think here is where they started to backtrack on that. I'm confused because wasn't this chunck of intell also related to the Plame case?

"We went to war because Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons, had biological weapons and was, indeed, seeking to reconstitute a nuclear program -- whether it did or did not involve uranium coming from Africa. That's, in the scheme of things, a minor element in the judgment that was made in the events that led up to war. And that's why the President has approached it in the manner that he has."

[rodeodance]

14. and diversion on a DSM question. Why not ask if Jr read the Petitions.

Q All right, Scott. At their joint news conference, both President Bush and Prime Minister Blair denied the major assumptions out of the so-called Downing Street memo. We've had other revelations, I guess, since then. But is the President wondering how the intelligence operatives and diplomatic operatives of the key ally in this mission came to these assumptions, came to these conclusions? Isn't he wondering how this happened?

MR. McCLELLAN: I think Prime Minister Blair addressed this very issue. They were memos relating to the United Kingdom and he addressed the issue in a news conference.

Go ahead, Ken.