The crux of the matter

I knew on some level that the blood thirsty jackals in the criminal cabal pictured below would find a way to spare their little Scooter, but what really pisses me off about this whole thing is this, one of my girlfriend's work friends has a son in the military who got his orders to go to Iraq yesterday, the same day one of the men who helped plan that mess over there and then broke the law to cover up for his boss who outed a CIA agent when her husband challenged their lies got out of serving a prison term.

If I hear one more Reich wing hack say that there was no crime in what Scooter did, then please by all means I want to see what happens to them if they stonewall a FBI investigation and lie under oath. If you or I did that shit we'd be in prison so fast that it would make your head spin.

But we didn't do it, no, we're too honest and too smart. And we don't have the best buds Scooter has. I'll bet you ten to one odds that Scooter gets a full pardon before King George the Worst gets out of office, if he leaves office that is.

So Scooter says "Fuck you" to the FBI and he lies on the stand during a Federal trial and he gets to serve no prison time as a result of his actions.

Aww, look at Scooter there on his crutches. Doesn't he look so brave? I'll bet he got injured playing squash or on his yacht or maybe he fell off us when he was fucking us over and he hurt his wittle self.

Now think about this for a second, and I made this point earlier in another post, what if Scooter had been black?
He'd have been led from the court in shackles after his guilty verdict had been read a few months ago. He'd have been shoved into the hardest supermax prison there is in the Federal system.

But he's white and rich, and Republican, and best buds with Cheney, so he gets off.

But who's still getting sent to the hellish prison known as Iraq under our occupation?

My gf's work friend's son. He's still got to serve in a war those bastards started and will never end. They clink champagne glasses and toast Scooter's job of takin' one for the team while another black man gets to serve in a war he didn't start and didn't want.

Now of course he knew what he was getting into when he signed up. He knew that he may get sent to fight somewhere, everyone who signs up knows that. But what he also knew was that he had every right to think that the men who sent him to war would follow the same laws he has to when he is home. He also has the right to expect that the people who ask him to go to war did not lie through their teeth to get us into the war. He also has the right to expect that the criminals who started this war would work to end it after 5 years instead of sending more and more troops over.

And that is what is pissin' me off about this Scooter going free bullshit. I'm trying really hard to love my country right now but those blood thirsty war mongerin' law breakin' justice subvertin' bastards in the White House make it hard. God damn all of you bastards, I hope I'm wrong and that there is a god and that she smites all of your Reich wing asses for the crimes you committed against this country and against the world.


If you haven't seen this film yet, I suggest you watch it on this July 4th. Maybe it will piss you off and make you get off your ass and do something to end the war. It did the trick for me and my gf.

No but yeah but no but yeah but no but....

Sorry, I didn't mean to get all Vicki Pollard on your asses, and if you have no clue as to who Vicki Pollard is, then go buy Little Britain on DVD, but it's just that this whole Scooter Libby pardon thing has my simian undies in a bunch.

See, what ol' Scooter did was, no matter what the right wing flacks and Republican presidential candidates say, a crime. It is still against the law to obstruct justice. It is still against the law to lie on the witness stand. No matter what anyone says he did both those things. He damn well lied to the FBI and to a court of law about his role in the outing of a covert CIA agent. Whether he did it to protect Dick Cheney or at the behest of the White House is immaterial.

For whatever reason, he did the crime. Now the question on all of our minds is, will he do the time? The FOX Comedy network hairdos are screaming for Bush to pardon him. The Republican presidential candidates want him pardoned. Party hacks like Mary Matalin and her once Democratic husband want him pardoned. But will our Idiot in Chief pardon him?


One part of me wants to see the prick led off to prison in handcuffs with a media entourage trailing after him like hound dogs after a raccoon. He should be sent to prison for what he did, and not minimum security prison either. He should be tossed in with hard core criminals and left to fend for himself. He should be put in a cell with a big ol' hard bodied guy named Bubba. And his sentence should be lengthened. What he did was wrong and he should have to suffer for it, for many many years to come.

But then another part of me would giggle like a school girl hopped up on helium if he got pardoned by his old boss's boss. Why is that you ask? Because if he did get pardoned then people would see how corrupt, how venal, how un-American, how wrong, those Republican pricks really are. Maybe if he did get pardoned then people would rise up with fury and vote to toss out all the bastards who supported the idiot who pardoned him. And maybe just maybe if he did get pardoned, then that would be the straw that breaks the camels back and then Congress would begin to impeach Georgie and Dickweed. And if he did get a pardon then whoever the Republican nominee for President is would have to bear the brunt of that pardon and they'd lose like Ford did after he pardoned Nixon.

So you know what? Either way I'm happy. If he does time and he must wear the mantle of 'convicted felon' for the rest of his life, then hell yeah, I'm happy with that. And if they pardon him and the rest of the country wakes up and tosses out the corrupt pigs from power and a Democrat wins in 2008 in part because of that pardon, then hell yeah, I'm dope with that too.

And now a word from Scooter Libby