I had a queasy and sickening feeling in my gut when I heard the news that Bush had commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe part of it was that I had simply not eaten dinner yet.\u00c2\u00a0 But it was this feeling that goes beyond my loathing of the George Bush presidency and the basic piling up of one item after another.<\/p>\n
There is something off with the American political system.\u00c2\u00a0 It cannot seem to handle and sort out and destroy Pure BS.\u00c2\u00a0 I say this thinking that I need to pull together some Nixon era and Watergate era material for a future post regarding The Weary.\u00c2\u00a0 The writing was on the wall when every one of the Republican presidential candidates said that Scooter Libby ought be pardoned, chief cheerleader being Fred Thompson, the better to pander to a narrow part of the Republican base — the 29 percent of the American voters who support Bush.\u00c2\u00a0 The writing was on the wall when Lawyers of the Right, including would be Supreme Court Justice Bork, mind you, defended Scooter Libby. The writing was further on the wall when the David Broders of the world waxed on the pleasantness of Scooter Libby personally.\u00c2\u00a0 Or if you go further into the Movement Conservative ranks, the storyline that the National Review and the Weekly Standard and Fox News commentators have which flips the entire course of events on its head.<\/p>\n
I have a reaction is “OH, COME ON!” Once upon a time I mocked the oh-so-sensible and serious Joseph Biden for giving a statement like that to one of the Bush Administration’s perfidies, but it dawns on me where Biden is coming from.\u00c2\u00a0 To react in proper order to the Bush Administration is to come out with drastic measures that will slide you into the role of fierce partisan.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the Flaw of the American system, why anybody seeking the Republican Nomination has to have that funny-vision view of Libby as Victim, and why if I stick around long enough someone might throw the example of my low opinion of Joseph Lieberman as hypocrisy, which adds to this weariness.
\nIt is one more item of a barrel of insults, in its truest essence an item of “Obstruction of Justice”, the continued blocking of Fitzgerald’s vision of that game he is umpiring, commuted so that he will be pardoned when Bush gets ready to leave office.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly, seeing as how Bush is at his low ebb in public esteem, and has nothing much to lose really, I think Bush oughta go ahead and Pardon Scooter Libby today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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