Archive: May 25, 2008 - May 31, 2008
Monster's Ball
Bush loyalists watching Scott McClellan kick off his media tour yesterday must have felt a revulsion akin to Dr. Frankenstein's. McClellan's former White House colleagues had built and trained the former press secretary to parrot their talking points, monotonously if not mindlessly, no matter what argument or fact stood in...
By Dana Milbank | May 30, 2008; 7:29 AM ET | Comments (0)
The Puzzled Presidency
Dan Bartlett has had 36 hours to think it over, and he's still puzzled. "There's not a lot of specific evidence [for] some of the more explosive charges that he's putting in this book; that's the part that is leaving us most puzzled," the former Bush White House official said...
By Dana Milbank | May 29, 2008; 11:40 AM ET | Comments (108)
Invisible Man of the White House
"Anybody seen Steve Hadley? Anybody seen Steve Hadley?" Jane Purcell, part of the American entourage at yesterday's meeting of President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative at the Washington Hilton, was trying urgently to find the national security adviser. It turned out Hadley, who arrived 15 minutes early for his speech to...
By Dana Milbank | May 29, 2008; 8:09 AM ET | Comments (1)
