Loyalty Up Loyalty Down

It is a pretty good call for Bush to commute Libby's prison sentence without pardoning him. It keeps in place the tiny vestige of acknowledgment that a crime (and maybe more important for W,  a Sin) was committed.  Even a shadow of honesty carries great weight with the self righteous and the power drunk. 

That Scooter perjured himself to protect Rove  and Cheney (mostly Rove) was de riguer. That's what people do in those positions - they fall on their swords for their king.  I do wish W. had a similar inkling to show some support for Secretary Powell when he sword-dived before the UN, but I digress...

The commutation also allows Bush to split hairs in a manner that he can think of as philosophical and sophisticated.  It is undeniably, loyalty down and that should mean something for both sides of the aisle. Any action that caries even a glimmer of humility for either the President or the Vice President serves to extend our survival as a Democratic Republic for a few more ethereal hours.

So I am good with it , and I think you should be to.

The fun question is: Will Cheney or W. pay Libby's quarter of a million dollar fine from their massive (and massively under reported) portfolio of personal wealth?

Well, there's loyalty and there's money, and there's always another day to hammer on the keypad...


Thanks for playing.

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