Brief thoughts on Scooter Libby.

Okay George W. commuted Scooter Libby's sentence, making his upcoming jail time vanish. Our Pres has stated that he felt 30 months was a bit excessive and I tend to agree with him, come on the guy only committed "two counts of perjury, one count of obstruction of justice in a grand jury investigation, and one of the two counts of making false statements to federal investigators." I am pretty sure that none of those things are any more than regular, every day misdemeanors...Oh wait, they are felonies, damn. Whoops, I didn't realize that, maybe Scoot does deserve some jail time after all. At least he will have to pay that 250,000 dollar fine, that should teach him a lesson. Now, if Libby was a high payed lawyer for many years that raked in millions upon millions of dollars in tax payers money because he had an abusively high government salary, that would be a different story. A guy like that wouldn't really worry too much about a 250G fine I suppose, glad that's not the case here...Oh damn it, that's exactly the case here, damn, damn, damn. Okay no jail time for Scooter and the fine isn't as bad as you would think, if you look at it from his monetary perspective but at least you can be sure that he will feel a slight sting knowing he has two years of probation hanging over his head, unless the Pres decides to pardon him all together but that wouldn't happen, not in our country, with it's fair and impartial legal system....Wait, what is this quote that I just found? "President Bush said Tuesday he wouldn't rule out a pardon for former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, after sparing him a 30-month prison sentence on Monday." ........DAMN!!!!!!!

I guess the moral here is: If you work in a democratic system of government and you screw up, the people will forgive you and allow you a second chance, even if your screw up conflicted the identity and safety of an operative with national security. It's the people who run the government in a democracy and the President serves our will. It's not as if Libby can be pardoned by the White House and the people will have no say in the matter at all, that wouldn't be a Democracy at all, that would be more like a Monarchy or Dictatorship, glad that's not the case...