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July 18, 2005

Beam me up. . .there are no straight answers here.

Don't blame me for this drek. I voted for Kerry.

Q Will Karl come back and talk to us at the event?

MR. McCLELLAN: No, I don't expect that today.

Q Why not?

MR. McCLELLAN: I just don't -- there's no plans for him to do that.

D'oh! Stop trying to trick me, you pinko reporter!

Q How long is he going to stay on the staff?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think I expressed the President's views yesterday, when it comes to Karl.

The President is hiding and whimpering under his desk. Where are all the grownups?

Q Remind me, how long is he going to stay on the staff?

MR. McCLELLAN: That's a nice try to keep bringing up questions relating to media reports about an ongoing investigation. As the President indicated yesterday, we are not going to prejudge an ongoing investigation based on media reports. The President directed the White House to cooperate fully, and that's what we've been working to do. And we will be more than happy to talk about the investigation after it is completed.

But the President -- I again made clear yesterday that when it comes to the President's confidence in Karl and his support for him, I made clear our views.

In other words, he'll be on staff for as long as we want him, because we're above the law and you're all a bunch of whiny plebes.

Q Does the President believe it's appropriate for the RNC to continue to weigh in on this matter? They put out another memo today, with a top-10 Joseph Wilson lies. If indeed it's an ongoing investigation and it's improper for the White House to discuss it, does he think it's proper for the Republican Party to weigh in on it?

MR. McCLELLAN: You know, Geoff, I appreciate the question, and as you heard me say yesterday, we are not going to prejudge the outcome of the investigation based on media reports. And I'm not going to get into --

'Kay. . .this answer had nothing to do with the question. Is it improper for the RNC to weigh in on it? Yes or no?

Q What about the RNC, though, Scott?

MR. McCLELLAN: No, I said, I'm not going to get into discussing matters relating to an ongoing investigation. We'll let the investigation come to a conclusion, and then I'll be more than happy to talk about it, as will the President.

I am going to repeat the same non-sequitor and get very irriated with you for asking a question about the RNC. Besides, I can't talk about it. If I do, the nice man who controls my mouth levers will never allow me to become a real boy.

Q Does the President -- did he yesterday get his --

MR. McCLELLAN: What I'm telling you is that those are all questions relating to an ongoing investigation.

LALALALALALALALALALA. I'M NOT LIIIIIISTENIIIIIING. . .

Lemme get this straight--Bill Clinton is unfaithful to his wife, and the Republicans try to impeach him. The White House Chief of Staff outs a CIA operative and puts our oh-so-important war on terror in jeopardy, and it's no big deal.

Posted by at July 18, 2005 06:12 AM