I have bigger concerns at the moment (such as the war in Iraq, a nuclear Iran, the new Medi-crack entitlement and Cynthia “race baiter” McKinney making a damn fool out of herself and the state of Georgia) but this is an issue that has to be dealt with: Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary, needs to be fired.

President Bush is loyal, sometimes to a fault. McClellan can screw up any press conference he attends which, unfortunately, is all of them. At a time when this administration needs to put on a tough, confident face they trot out a kid who looks like he was the last guy to be picked for the volleyball game or made his “bones” by being kicked around on the playground. Scott McClellan commands no respect, he lacks charisma, confidence and that indefinable quality that all successful press secretaries must have: chutzpah. If I heard McClellan trying to sell OxiClean (now, there is a spokesman who can sell), I wouldn’t buy it.

A press secretary is the face of an administration. Its spokesman should possess gravitas. This is a man who looks like a deer caught in the headlights. He commands no admiration from the Washington Press Corp and, probably even less from the American people. Replace McClellan with someone like Mack McClarty or Ari Fleischer, and watch Bush’s ratings improve at least 25 percent. If a know-nothing lightweight like NBC “Chief Press Correspondent” David Gregory can make a name for himself by kicking around Scott McClellan then you know that this guy has big problems.

Personally, I’d like to see President Bush draft Tony Soprano for the job. The White House Press Corp needs to be put in their place. They need to learn some respect. And, we all know respect isn't something you ask for, it’s something you earn- and, if all else fails, you demand. That White House Press Corp should be quaking in its boots when it goes to ask the Press Secretary a question, when they go to question the President’s instincts, our Secretary of Defense or Condoleezza Rice’s integrity. And when they get it wrong it should hurt. I’d like to see Helen Thomas ask one of her dumb questions to Tony Soprano. What do you think his response would be her 2005 comment,"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself”? http://www.tonysopranoonmanagement.com/quotes.html