"Clinically Incapable"
Let us note that it was John Edwards who got it exactly right on the Scooter Libby commutation:
"Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today."
Clinically Incapable - What a perfect title for the authoritative biography of George Bush! Clinically incapable of so many things. Except serving himself.
Obviously, the choice to commute instead of pardon was designed to continue obstructing justice, one of the several charges for which Libby was found guilty. Commutation keeps his crony out of jail while allowing the farce of ongoing court proceedings which Bush and Gang can continue to use as their excuse for not answering legitimate questions. The pardon will come later.
Cynical. Self-Serving. Bastard.
Pretending he deliberated in service to justice.
Splitting the difference, my ass.
The guy is a study in perfect shamelessness.
How is it that I got this immediately, others have recognized the same...
"[T]he real effect of Bush's actions is to prevent Libby from revealing the truth about Bush's -- and vice president Cheney's -- own actions in the leak. By commuting Libby's sentence, Bush protected himself and his vice president from potential criminal exposure for their actions in the CIA Leak. As such, Libby's commutation is nothing short of another obstruction of justice." - Marcy Wheeler
...some even predicted it ...
Libby trial book coauthor Jeff Lomonaco, in an op-ed he tried unsuccessfully to get published several weeks ago, predicted a commutation because "it would enable Bush and Cheney to continue the strategy they have successfully pursued in deterring journalists seeking their explanations with claims that they shouldn't comment on an ongoing legal proceeding. If Bush were to pardon Libby, he and Cheney would no longer have such a rationale for evading the press' questions - nor would Libby be able to claim the right against self-incrimination to resist testifying before Congress about the role that Cheney and Bush played in directing his conduct."
...but, so far, I'm not hearing the broadcast press put it out for conversation?
Talk about missing the forest. Talk about missing the trees. Talk about fiddling while the forest burns down around us.
