No Time in Non-Crime
Scooter skates. Well, not exactly. There’s $250,000 that won’t be going into any GOP campaigns, and Scooter gets to be a felon. Pretty rough when no one actually did anything wrong. The left has had to make do with half-truths and fabrications in its quest to find some Bush malfeasance over the years, and this commutation is only a half-step toward the pardon they were hoping to get indignant about. Quick indignation check:
NYT tries out a new line: commutation was the act of a liberated man! Only 18 months left til blessed deliverance 1-20-09, Bush is free, free to do what he wants. Just like he did the last six and a half years! I thoughtDidn’t they notice? Speaking of not noticing, how come the Libby articles always skip over the lack of an underlying crime? Such a miscarriage of justice that someone should “leak” Valerie Plame’s identity and not be prosecuted! There’s something to get indignant about.
Dem Daily (”EXCESSIVE? EXCESSIVE? “) has Capitol Hill’s indignation-palooza.
Firedoglake turns impotent rage at impotent Congress.
Newshog: Bush finally does something to stabilize his numbers! Otherwise Newshog would have the “22 percenters” who still approve of him!
Yes, I know that I’m merely pulling the lowest number from the very many polls that exist, some of which have him all the way in the low 30s, but it’s all in fun!
That’s how Fitzgerald felt about it! (Newshog lowballed. RCP average puts Bush approval at 30.5 percent. Dem Cong, 24.8 percent. Newshog, in search of fun, may want to mock Dem Cong instead!)
Unwarrantedly self-congratulatory Brilliant at Breakfast: Bush lied, people died! BaB places the “hardest core Christofascist Zombie Brigade” numbers more charitably at 27 percent, and helpfully points out Bill Clinton’s barefaced lies.
Taylor Marsh exposes something else! Her ignorance! Someone else tell her about the Clinton pardons for con artists, drug dealers, etc. I don’t have the heart to. Also, can someone please ask her to check with her feminist pals on whether old men pressing their lusts on interns is creepy or not. Then, there’s the lying.
Topics: law & order, punishment
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:24 am on Tuesday, July 3, 2007
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July 3rd, 2007 at 7:36 am
Yeah, the Left. NBC (National Bullshit Company) spent more time on this, this AM (the wife watches it) Then they did on the Islamic vermin that tried to off the British And Scots.
Aiders, Abettors and Collaborators. Their heads will be the first to hit the ground, in the event that WE still play ‘patty cake’, with this vile cult.
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:37 am
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July 3rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
Lying infidel!
For his crimes against humanity, this Libby should have been stoned until he was dead. Imagine having the temerity to refuse to cooperate with the special prosecutor.
Who does he think he is? Judith Miller?
Imagine telling lies to a grand jury. Who does he think he is: Tim Russert?
No wonder Joe Wilson and Keith Olbermann are calling for his head on a bed of lettuce. Thanks be to Allah there are still men of integrity in the world.
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:32 am
Sandy Berger. Sandy Berger. Sandy Berger!
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Sandy Burglar.
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
The clown college grads frothing on the BDS sites are the same ones who place Bill Clinton on a pedestal as exemplar. The fools calling for impeachment and revolution in the streets right now are see nothing wrong with or given the fact that they are herd animals may not even appreciate the nature of many of Clinton’s pardons. They wasn’t just pardoning con artists, drug dealers, etc as Jules mentions, but so many tracked closely to relatives and associates of the pardoned contributing to Clinton’s coffers for political and post-presidential use that he was essentially selling pardons to however would met the going rate.
Unlike the transparent nature of so many of Clinton’s pardons, Bush’s pardon of Libby shows no overt advantage to him other than his distaste for Libby being a collateral BDS victim. Stress overt, since politicians aren’t high on my list for assuming altruistic motives as a general rule, but the nonsensical speculations from the BDS crowd don’t hunt at all.
On a related note, it’s no longer as much fun as it used to be watching the BDS street show from the left. The comments coming from the democrat leadership in house and senate abetting the nonsensical BDS cause and effect speculations about the pardon are plumbing new depths. The outright and vocal pandering to partisan and hysterical maundering is something new in my experience. Pelosi and Reid have no more business doing the people’s business than Clinton did.
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
“…no one actually did anything wrong…”
except libby was convicted of perjury and obstructing justice. those things are wrong.
“…bush’s pardon of libby shows no overt advantage to him…”
except the fact that libby was commiting perjury and obstructing justice to protect the vp and by extension bush. commuting the sentence of a senior white house aide has no advantage to him?
i thought the so-called republicans were for law and order. or is that only for the other folks?
hypocrites…each and everyone of you.
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
““…bush’s pardon of libby shows no overt advantage to him…”
except the fact that libby was commiting perjury and obstructing justice to protect the vp and by extension bush. commuting the sentence of a senior white house aide has no advantage to him?”
This is the sort of mindset that makes the nature of the outcry over the pardon such complete nonsense. There is absolutely no indication in his testimony, or even a rationale assumption that can be taken from the testimony at issue to support what you say about the vp and Bush. Your characterization of the reason for Libby’s perjury is unfounded BDS assumption.
Leaving aside the fact of whether Libby or Russert’s memories better served them, it was Armitage that leaked Plame. Not Cheney, Libby, or Bush. Armitage is a democrat, an official from the Clinton administration and a current state department dweeb.
“i thought the so-called republicans were for law and order. or is that only for the other folks?”
Law and order is a mindset that doesn’t lend itself to political affiliation. The fact that you see it that way as one of those ‘other folks’ says a lot about your skewed worldview, but nothing else of import.
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:19 pm
ol’ man…
1). you deny facts. the prosecuter himself said there is a cloud over the vice president.
2). you create false standards. armitage did leak plames name to novak…unfortunately in the real world that has no bearing…i would ask you to show me where it says only one person can be guilty of leaking classified information?
3). you project your own biases on others. you clearly love the whole bds thing…ever stop to think it is you who is guilty of the opposite? no i didn’t think so.
4). as for my skewed worldview and the other folks…my guess is that you aren’t a member of the neo-con inner circle and the rule of law applies to you…like it does to me…and to the thousands that are currently serving time for the EXACT same crime libby commited.
July 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
1) His opinion, and worth no more than yours as neither can prove it. Granted he bears more fault for speculating openly about anything connect3ed to the case that he could not prove in an official capacity., as he had years of opportunity to do so. So basically, the basis for your opinion is another person’s opinion rather than any evidence of Libby’s motivations.
2) This is projection. You create false standards. You’re willing to propagate the impression that you know Libby’s motivations because you think the fantasy validates your BDS. At the same time you both ignore the fact that Armitage was the one who leaked to Novak in the first place - the whole reason for the special investigation was to determine this and after which Libby became involved when Novak was trying to confirm his info - and you propagate no false impression of Armitage’s motivations because it does not serve to support your attempt to manufacture republican/Cheney/Bush complicity.
3). This makes no sense. I’m pointing out the nonsense that BDS makes people spout. I think it’s a mental health issue, and certainly hope I’m guilty of the opposite.
4) The ‘neo-con inner circle’. Do you have any appreciation of the paranoia implicit in this statement and how it pigeonholes you?
July 4th, 2007 at 7:08 am
That’s good that Libby’s sentence has been commuted.
Now, when will the Wilsons be charged with treason and espionage?