Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out

Say goodbye to Scott McClellan. He lasted longer than any punching bag should.

McClellan took over from Ari Fleischer on July 15, 2003. Most of the bad press, scandals, disasters, and hunting accidents occured after that time.

Scottie is the son of Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a former Texas Comptroller who is currently aiming to unseat Gov. Rick Perry (R) as an independent. His father, Barr McClellan, is famous for writing a book alleging that LBJ was involved in the JFK assassination. More on this in The New Yorker.

The amazon.com review of the artfully titled BLOOD, MONEY, AND POWER: HOW LBJ KILLED JFK notes "his evidence is meager and murky, even by the standards of Kennedy conspiracy scholarship . . . McClellan relies on what he heard during his years at Clark's law firm-e.g., a partner told him that Clark arranged the assassination-and the description of scenes in which a "a fixed stare," vague, unspoken understandings, and "code words" proved that Johnson and Clark were conspiring . . . His confusingly structured, evasively argued, often nonsensical theories attest to the crime's continuing potency as a symbol of America's mythic heart of darkness."

So McClellan was not a stranger to politics or fantasy before joining the administration.

The rumor now is that the White House has offered the job to Fox news anchor Tony Snow.

Thanks to brainyquote.com, we can rehash our favorite Snowisms, and can imagine what is to come if he takes the job:

"Even though divorce rates remain revoltingly high, the institution of marriage maintains a unique place in the American heart."