I was going to write about the Scooter Libby pardon...

[thewayne]

but what's the point? Bush commuted his sentence much faster than I expected, but really, who didn't expect this? Libby took one for the team and took the heat that otherwise would probably have been applied to Rove or Cheney, but that's pure supposition on my part. I just wonder if Bush will do a full pardon when he leaves office (preferably with kicking and screaming and pitchforks and torches). :-)

John Kovalic posted a wonderful Onion link: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30624. Definitely true, the administration has worn down the outrage of the American public to the point that they can do anything that they want to.

Comments

Well

[tomegatheron.livejournal.com]

It seems that a pardon is a long understood perk of the office. The last president pardoned convicted terrorists that murdered 6 and maimed dozens, http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/puertorico/sep4.htm
Cocaine trafficers, his half prother, and a solicitor of child pornography. You can dislike Bush all you want, it pretty easy by now, but dont think his act of pardoning a friend and supporter is anything earthshaking.

Re: Well

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I'm not in the least bit surprised that he did it. And I'm sure the Bush list when he leaves office will be equally impressive. I don't like the fact that he did it before the appeals process was played out. As we found out when Ken Lay died after being convicted: that first conviction is mostly a formality until after the appeals process is over. Because he died before the appeals had even began, he technically was no longer convicted.

I also don't like the fact that the people who blew Valerie Plame's cover were never brought to justice. Libby was caught in a lie, that was it. He didn't commit the crime. I don't like the way the current administration just utterly ignores the law when it isn't convenient for them.