Scooter
So, is there anyone actually surprised the sentence was commuted? I mean, I’ve seen a bunch of Go Team posts and mockery of justice posts but were any of you surprised? I was not. I just figured it would happen next year.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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July 3rd, 2007 at 9:42 am
Actually, I was. I was expecting a complete pardon.
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:51 am
Mildly surprised. Mildly disgusted; I thought a pardon would have been appropriate.
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:59 am
The pardon will still come, next year as the Pres leaves office.
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:03 am
I figured he’d wait til next year, on his way out.
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 am
Only surprised about the timing.
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:15 am
He couldn’t wait. Scooter was about to start serving his sentence, like in a couple weeks. The guidelines for commuting sentences suggest you’re supposed to have already started serving the sentence, but it’s not like following the rules is something this administration is big on.
The other thing about commuting versus pardoning is that Scooter couldn’t claim 5thA privilege if he was pardoned. He’d be subject to subpoena and be busy spilling his guts to Henry Waxmany and Pat Leahy by Christmas time.
W is pretty obviously an idiot, but the lawyers who work for him apparently aren’t.
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:46 am
About what?
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:08 am
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July 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 am
You’re right, I’m sure there’s nothing Congress would like to know about the whole affair. They’d probably just say “awww the heck with it Scooter, go play golf.”
Uncle, you need an icon for eye rolling.
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
So what does this whole fiasco tell us about this administration? Ready and willing (eager actually) to pardon the lieing bastard politicians, but let the Border Patrol agents egregiously incarcerated (by Bush’s buddy John Sutton) fester in prison.
I have lost ALL respect for the Bush administration. Sheep in wolves coats.
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:56 am
What makes the preening and mouthwatering joy and “yay for Scooter” celebration from the wingnutosphere all the more revolting is not that Scooter was a liar, but that the lies that he was sentenced-and-commuted for were lies that the commuting administration was an active, willing, party to. They’re pardoning their own malfeasance.
As Glenn Reynolds (no friend to hang-Scooter and Rove crowd, by any stretch) pointed out, the fact that W has used the pardon as sparingly as he’s used the veto makes it even more suspect.
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
OTOH, it’s only fair that Libby serve just as much time as Bill Clinton did for the same crime…
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I was surprised. To date Bush has consistently disappointed me with his lack of moral courage. I figured this would be no different.
I say good! Libby’s has been convicted of not having a perfect memory, nothing else.
None of the allegations against him could be proven and in fact were disproven with the exception of his not remembering exactly when a phone conversation took place.
I am not a fan of Libby, Bush, et. al., but I know a goddamned set-up when I see it.
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:34 pm
I am not a fan of Libby, Bush, et. al., but I know a goddamned set-up when I see it.
This is what the far left saw as an issue. The leadership of the far Blue is as much of a disappointment as the leadership of the .gov.
This rudderless ship is off course.
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I’m on board for a pardon for Libby. I think what the President is a good first step, especially in light of the facts, that Plame was not a double secret super spy but a glorified secretary.
If Sandy Berger got a 50k fine and an admonishment along with a suspension of his clearance for 2 years for removing secret documents from the National Archives and destroying some only known copies of the same, I’m thinking Libby is completely non-culpable for most anything.
Regards,
Rabbit.
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Take a look at this and then try to justify the screechers, http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Dangit, SA.
I was gonna post that. 🙂
July 3rd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Letting guys off of the hook is a well established tradition for lame duck Presidents.
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
The notion that the left even has a fig leaf of cover remaining on this and related issues is comical.
Libby will be a disbarred lawyer, just like WJC.
He lied about something, which wasn’t even a crime after all.
This is the best that Fitzgerald could do after spending several years and untold millions jousting with windmills.
Fitzgerald continued to pursue his investigation into this matter long after he learned that no underlying crime had been committed.
Sandy Berger gets a baby slap for stealing National Secrets and lying about it, while Libby is reviled in the national media for the last 2 years and the object of scorn and ridicule.
Watching Hillary get exorcised about a Presidential pardon (or commutation, as the case may be) is particularly amusing.
It’s time for Fred to make another YouTube video, with a reminder about all of the Clinton pardons.
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Bzzzt!
Lying in a criminal investigation is different than lying in a civil one.
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:37 pm
– But, but, dang it Straightarrow! None of those people pardoned were CONVICTED of exposing a super-duper, top secret, agent whose hidden identity was the key in whether we
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
(sorry for the cut-off) WON OR LOST THE WAR ON TERROR!!!! Valerie Plame is the single most important person in the UNITED STATES!!!!! Hence, Scooter libby should be hanged!!!!!! Those cursed neo-cons! Karl Rove wins agian! Lying does not apply to Bill Clinton! You right-wing Rush Bot! :/
July 4th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I was against it. There is a LONG list of folks needing pardons, and like the fact that using the veto early and often would have saved his presidency, Bush should have been pardoning folks like mad from day one.
If you are going to pardon Libby- the VPs cheif of staff….you need to get off your butt and pardon lots of other folks.
As usual, Bush showing his usual lack of nerve.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Scooter broke the law and was punished. If you think that the law is too harsh or that the law he broke is one that shouldn’t exist, then advocate for changing the law. If the law is a non-law and the sentencing too harsh for Scooter, then its the same for someone who wasn’t Dick Cheney’s employee.