Scooter's prison term commuted!!!

[Joeaksa]

AP Just popped up with it, and the BBC here ran it live.

Seems that the President was tired of the witch hunt and just commuted Scooter Libby's prison term!

[pwd72s]

If true, Bush did well. Libby was loyal to Bush...following orders.

Man, I'm very weary of the partisanship these days...

[lyon]

Yeah, Libby is an upstanding citizen!
Throw that evil Paris Hilton back in jail!
All hail Bush!!

[speeder]

Heil Bush!

Cogsuckers...

[on-ramp]

King George has done it again!! Praise the Lord and God Bless America, where the rich and powerful protect each other.

With our holiday a few days away, here is a document you may have heard of. it was signed July 4th 1776 . It's called The Declaration of Independence:


In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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and that is just the preamble...powerful stuff. However, to King George, it's probably just a "piece of paper"

[Bill Verburg]

Seig Heil!!

[bigchillcar]

goodness..thought that you meant 'our' scooter..

[rcecale]

You lib hypocrites should have a look at this!

Randy

[Bill Verburg]

Originally posted by pwd72s
If true, Bush did well. Libby was loyal to Bush...following orders.

Man, I'm very weary of the partisanship these days...

Hmmm sounds familiar somehow

Eicler?
Eichler?

I know Eichman!!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Bush just needed something to take the media away from the fact that he caved to Putin today. that and Dick didn't play his Executive cards very well, so needed Libby and a SoCo Manhattan to put everything right in his world again.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Predictable in its slimy corruptness.

[cmccuist]

What exactly was Scooter convicted of??

Giving false statements to a grand jury about his memory of a story of a fake CIA agent?

He's not exactly John Gotti. I feel pretty safe with him out roaming the streets again, Paris Hilton, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Martha Stewart notwithstanding.

What good is it having the president as your friend if you can't get pardoned?

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally posted by rcecale
You lib hypocrites should have a look at this!

Randy

Uh... yeah we're bunch of hypocrites alright.......except that if you look at ANY President's record in the last 30 or 40 years you will find they EACH pardoned a whole slew of no-goodniks. Nothing unique there. This is just another example of cronyism...except "Scooter" (how does a grownass man let himself keep being called that?) didn't serve his sentence until near the end of the Adminsitration's term as with most pardons.

Because of THAT it feels like yet another Bush "in your ear" decision. Not caring what the law says and just using his executive powers to suit himself (yes, much as other President's have done). But if you still MUST find George W. Bush to be above criticism?..... Well, we all have opinions and you know what they say about those!

[BlueSkyJaunte]

I feel sick...and I suddenly realize that 90% of fastpat's SECEDE! blather was in fact justified.

[on-ramp]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
I feel sick...and I suddenly realize that 90% of fastpat's SECEDE! blather was in fact justified.

haha. I'm sure fastpat is having a good day today.

[dtw]

This a great day for the VRWC. Visit your animal shelters on the way home from work - there's going to be a lot of killing of small cute furry animals in celebration tonight!

[nostatic]

Originally posted by rcecale
You lib hypocrites should have a look at this!

Randy

yeah, but when will it stop? Who's got the balls to stand up and say, "enough." Certainly not GW. Does anyone?

[Superman]

Yup, he's the right man to restore morality and values to the White House. Unfortunately, that last President probably taught young people to lie about their clandestine 'hummers.' Nothering we can do about that.

But all is not lost. The current guy is teaching them that laws and judges' decisions do not need to be respected. Teaching traditional values by example.

[Dottore]

I don't know.

I don't like the idea of this guy getting pardoned, because I suspect he's pretty slimy. Spend that much time with Dick and you would have to be. And he was convicted and sentenced.

On the other hand I like the idea of a presidential pardon. I like the idea that someone who would otherwise rot in prison can be pardoned by a magnanimous president. And if the most powerful man in the world can't pardon a crook - what's the point? It's got to be one of the best perks of the job.

[Rick Lee]

I'm outraged. Libby should have gotten a full pardon. Can't wait until we get a good president.