Open Letter to the White House

(caveat-I never have listened to a press confrence at the white house before-)

Shut Up.

Shut Up, Shut Up, Shut Up.

Ok I am listening to Scott McClellan here and my message to the White House is they need to shut up.

They asked a question about Karl Rove and the impact of his not being in the White House during the day to day meetings. Scott babbled all about the great work the white house is doing. Shut up. the K.I.S.S principle would have made the whole thing very easy and smooth over "Karl Rove is a valuable member of the White House team, but we are a Team and any good team needs to be able to take care of the duties of one member if they are sidelined for a short period of time. And we have a very good team here at the white house." No irrelevant garbage, No promoting stuff that sounds intellectually ignorant just a simple message. Karl Rove is important, but the buisness goes on. going into a list of the buisness that goes on implies weakness and sends the wrong message.

On the Harriet Miers question he was asked about Erroding support, but Scott countered with "what erroding support." and then talked about all the people who do support Harriet Miers. At the end of this painfully sad attempt at a message the answer he should have given was at the end ( as rephrased by me) "The process is moving forward and we are still very early in the process. As the Judiciary Committee gathers its information I assure you that more and more details will come out that will solidfy support for Harriet Miers to become an excellent Strict Constructionist Jurist."

Their is no one crafting a -good- message. The campaign did have some good messages put forward but clearly no one is crafting the message now that they have the job.

So PLEASE

SHUT UP

and Keep It Simple Stupid