Don't blame Scott McClellan for his feckless lack of class...

...it's all in his family genes......

You Pilgrims that don't have the benefit of residing in Texas (in this durned 100 degree weather) might not know young Scotty's background ---

You might not know that his daddy, Oliver McClellan was a Texas lawyer insider with the LBJ Administration. Or that after leaving as attorney to the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, he eventually had to surrender his law license in lieu of disciplinary action by the Texas Bar Association. He later had an epiphany and wrote a best seller book entitled intriguingly, "Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK". In the book, McClellan alleges that LBJ had a hand in the JFK's assassination with some cohorts in the oil bid'ness. Unlike junior, at least Oliver had the presence to wait for LBJ to die before he crucified him. I reckon young Scotty figures George W is too young and healthy to wait for that to happen.

You might not know his Momma -- Her (latest) name is Carol Keeton Strayhorn, and her political history includes a term as the Republican Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Labeling herself as 'one tough grandma', she vied for the Republican nomination to the office of Governor. Losing that race, in typical McClellan fashion, she dropped out of the party and ran as an 'Independent'. A race she lost rather ignominiously....and blamed everybody else for the loss.

Republican insiders see the bitter criticism in Scott McClellan's memoir, "What Happened," as a payback for his abrupt firing as White House press secretary in the spring of 2006. McClellan's book makes it clear he did not like it when newly appointed White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten informed him he was done as press secretary. His resignation was announced six days later.

While McClellan's attack on President George W. Bush shocked Washington, it was no surprise to many people in Austin, Texas. They say McClellan's mother, veteran Texas politician Carole Keeton Strayhorn, has been predicting that her son would get back at the people who fired him. Elected state comptroller as a Republican in 1998, she left the party to launch a losing independent race for governor in 2006.

So there you have it pardner's, it ain't young Scotty's fault - he just didn't fall far from the tree!

There are very few good quotes from the lips of Terry McCauliffe, former Democrat Party Leader and Clinton supporter, but his words this weekend were dead on:

McAuliffe tells it like it is on the Scott McClellan kiss and tell:

"I would also say, and I gotta add a personal thing, I never like it when someone works for someone and then comes out and writes a book trashing them. I just think that is, I don't care if it is politics or life, if he was that upset about everything, he should have quit. Remember Gerald Ford's press secretary quit when he disagreed with pardoning, Ford pardoning Nixon. If you don't agree, then get out. And I just, I find it abhorrent the way these people come out and write books about their boss. It made 'em money, it made 'em prestige, it gave them all this power and then they turn around and slap 'em. I just, I gotta tell you, I just uh, I don't care who it is- Democrat, Republican- it's wrong. "

Add this one to Bob Dole's rant and I think we can close the book on McClellan. He cashed in, created a sensation for a week, but in the end he told the left what they already knew (or thought they did) while burning his bridge on the right. He better hope it was worth it.