Of all the disturbing, scandalous and startling news yesterday, it wasn't the discovery of yet another lobbyist in the McCain camp (although this one did have the added distinction of being both McCain's top economic advisor and the guy who helped bring us the mortgage crisis) that I found odd. At this point, I expect McCain lobbyists to surface with about the same frequency as Obama superdelegates.

It wasn't the Lieberman thing, although I did think it pretty bizarre that he would share a stage with Hagee. But Joe is pretty irrelevant these days when he's not whispering foreign policy corrections in John McCain's ear, so that one will be relegated to the back pages.

No, it was the ironic timing of McCain's Denver foreign policy speech and the leaking of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new book “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception”. Although McCain didn't mention Bush in his speech, he did manage to work in the right wing 'surrender' meme, again implying that the two thirds of Americans who are in favor of ending Bush's war are defeatists. Just hours after McCain spouted the administration's Iraq talking points, the media was covering the McClellan's revelations of the deception behind them.

At the same time Bush/McCain were attending their downsized fundraiser together in a venue the appropriate size to accommodate their ever-dwindling base, McClellan's book about how the administration lied us into war hit the cable news.

They might want to schedule their next fundraiser at the local IHOP after this. I don't think even the McClellan book is going to keep them apart or stop McCain from parroting Bush's talking points about 'surrender' and 'victory' any more than I believe McCain will ever be able to define 'victory' in Iraq. At this point, they're inextricably joined. McCain had a choice to make, and he didn't choose wisely.

Senator Kerry has repeatedly addressed the lies of the administration and the deceptive Republican talking points that were repeated yesterday by John McCain. It didn't take long to dip into the archives and find one of many possible pre-sponses to both McCain's bogus 'surrender' remark and McClellan's 'revelations' that are the breaking news this morning.

One really disturbing outcome of all this, aside from the whole 'lying us into war' thing, is that Scott McClellan knew all this in 2004, when revealing what he knew might have helped save the country from the last four years of Bush. He was the White House press secretary. Bush's mouthpiece. And yet he chose to remain silent. Thankfully, his disclosure now might wake people up to what four years of Bush III might mean to our country's future. Four years too late and maybe just in time.