This is a perfect example of why so many good people hesitate to go into politics. Today people try and destroy their political enemies. Literally, kill them if they can.
What is this guy talking about? National Review Online was probably the first to have up an editorial called “Pardon Him,” less than an hour after the sentence came down.
Maybe they should all leave Washington and get a Border Patrol job. We’ll see who goes to prison then.
Will the president allow Libby to rot in jail until it politically convenient (when he is on his way out of the White House) to pardon him? And what about the Border Patrol Agents? Criminal of him to sit on his hands when he could do the right thing.
“But, then, why should the president act, when even much of the conservative press seems willing to forget the man who is Scooter Libby.”
It might be a bit old fashioned, but the President could pardon Libby just because it’s the right thing to do and forget about the politics involved.
Just dreaming again.
I have a feeling he’ll get pardoned more or less immediately after the 2008 election, just to clear his record so a criminal conviction won’t be a bar to any future employment (because he’ll surely already be out on bail by then). And his friends will make sure he gets the $250,000 back one way or another, and will make sure he gets a plum job in the private sector if he wants it. Still sucks though. Wilson and Plame should be the ones in the slammer.
Heh heh.. Scooter Libby has a friendly relationship with joe bottum.
“For little guys like Compean and Ramos, though, jail time is a life killer. No 100K directorships for them. They were disgracefully treated by an administration that often seems to want the approval of the Mexican narco-elites more than the respect & admiration of its own citizens. They should get pardons.”
The whole point in a nutshell had nothing to do with Scooter and everything to do with the less known who are less connected and thus less protected.