Dole on McClellan

Politico’s Johnathan Martin has a new piece up about a scathing email from Bob Dole to Scott McClellan regarding the former Bush press secratary’s new book and its unflattering revelations. I found the following to be the most interesting passage of the article:

Dole assures McClellan that he won’t read the book — “because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job”

I just don’t get it. This is like the guy hearing from his best friend that his wife once ran around on him and then getting mad at the friend for not telling him about it when it was going on. “Well, Joe. My wife may or may not be a tramp. And, I’ll concede that it is a very real possibility. But I am going to let her skate on the whole whoring-around business, and instead bad-mouth you for not having the guts to tell me about all of this when you first found out about it. No, no. I will hear no more of your tawdry accusations. You are dead to me, Joe. Now if you will excuse me, I have to get these roses to my beautiful wife before they wilt.”

What is it about the Bush administration that leaves so many of its former staffers disgruntled.