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Did you hear the latest? One of your legislators (republican, no less) trying to pass a law to get the FLDS to foot the bill for the raid and associated legal costs. I'm sure it will go nowhere, but jeez, what a tool.
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He's doing it for the money? Bad timing, if that's the case. This stuff is neither shocking nor interesting any more. I bet the book will be a flop.
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I manned-up and registered so I could vote in the primary this time around. I registered as a Democrat.
I'm probably not a great one as I have an independent streak some three miles wide, but I am now a registered "D."
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You still aren't reading carefully, Cali.
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"Some of what McClellan says is likely true" suggests that "most of what McClellans says is likely not true," which isn't something you can reasonably conclude right now. You aren't thinking clearly, Tex.
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I don't have any way of verifying what is or is not true in the book.
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I'm no fan of the current administration at all and while I agree with those here who state that McClellan should have said something with which he disagreed while he was press secretary, I also believe McClellin was a dickhead to write this book.
Why, you ask? McClellen is only relevant because he worked for Bush. He spoke for Bush. Nothing he said was his own opinion. Without Bush, McClellan would be nothing. I believe in loyalty - and in McClellin's case, it's not his lack of loyalty to Bush's politics or policies that I have a problem with, but the fact that he is willing to sell out and bash the man that made him relevant. If he was too cowardly to say something as press secretary, then he should be forever mocked for trying to make money after he held that job. Man up and say it to his face, McClellin.
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