The Right-Wing Hypocrisy Machine Spins Away

I love it. L-O-V-E it. I want to marry it. The hypocrisy shown by the right wing has, perhaps, provided the most delicious fruits of its own tree ever.

OK, that was a bad metaphor. But I am just so crazy with the president freeing Scooter libby that I cannot think straight.

When Bill Clinton pardoned about a kajillion people just before he left office, Marc Rich chief among them, Arlen Specter and the idiot wing of the Republican Party started bitching like there was no tomorrow. He whined wnd whinged for weeks about how there needed to be some sort of Congressional oversight whenever the President exercised his power to pardon. Now George W. Bush has gone out and "commuted" the prison sentence of Scooter Libby. the President decided that the sentence was "excessive" and so he is giving Scooter a get out of jail free card.

Where are you now, Arlen? Where is the tough talk about how the Congress should have some kind of review power when the President grants a pardon? I can't hear you, Senator Specter. Is it because Dubya and Vice-President Shooter have you in the back room while The Gimp watches them slap you silly and asking "Whose bitch are you? Are you our bitch? Are you MY bitch, Arlen?!"

And what about you, Mister President? I hope you will forgive all of the people who mistakenly refer to your actions today as a "pardon" and I am sure you will vociferously argue that this wasn't a "pardon" but was the commutation of an excessive jail sentence. But when those people refer to your abominable actions as a "pardon" they aren't mistaken; they are just accurately predicting the future. Anyone who really thinks that Scooter Libby won't end up pardoned by the Current Occupant of the Oval Office is so naive, so obvlivious and so unburdened by reality that all I know is that I want that person to invest in my business venture involving bringing home water from Mars so that we can irrigate the deserts.

Dubya has done something I didn't think was possible: He made me realize that I had some small smidgen of respect for him. I know this because as soon as I heard about the libby sentence commutation, I felt that last gauzy thread of respect disintegrate. I know I had it because I know it's gone.

So, we have a President who has promised stiff consequences for anyone in his administration who is found to have broken a law. We also have someone in his administration who is convicted of multiple felonies. And the "stiff consequences" the President promised? A commutation of the sentence. Wow. All of this from a President who couldn't even commute the sentence of Karla Faye Tucker. 30 months is "excessive" for Scooter Libby but death was too lenient for a woman who made a prison conversion to Christianity?

Disgustedly,
Spike