The Rude Pundit: Advice to the Bush White House

[meegbear]

Why Not Pardon Scooter Libby? You Got Any Honor Left To Lose?

Let us ponder Scooter Libby from the point of view of the Bush administration:

There you are, the Bush administration, now with nearly two-thirds of the public against your policies, with every morning bringing in more news about how every butterfly flutter of action in the first term has become a nation-wrecking typhoon in this second one, where you can't even trumpet moves on peace with North Korea because it's been revealed that you lied about its nuclear capabilities, where the VA hospital debacle threatens to become this year's Katrina, where the last Katrina is still this year's Katrina, where you've become so friendless in the world that you've had to blink on Iran (goddamn, how that must made Dick Cheney's body temperature rise from the level of a hibernating mole rat to that of a lizard), where you can't even do a decent political purge of U.S. attorneys in order to install your own lackeys without creating a huge uproar among those fucking Democrats in Congress (here's a hint: don't fire a bunch of 'em in one day), where evil and rank incompetence are smacking together like flint and steel over a pile of dried-up newspapers, where all that's left for you legislatively is to try to keep shit from passing that undoes your work of the last six plus years, where any advances in your policies have to come from executive fiat or your much-abused (and, truly, untrustworthy) Commander-in-Chief status, where in any real democracy you'd be in jail, and where you know, at the end of the day, history's gonna portray you as making the Nixon and Harding eras look like the salad days of the republic.

So, really, and, c'mon, why the fuck not just pardon Scooter Libby after yesterday's verdict saying that the once single most important person to the Vice President is a perjuring liar? Sure, sure, Harry Reid can say that the President must not pardon Libby, as can many other Democrats, citing things like an "accountability" moment and that it would be a "serious mistake," but, Christ almighty, in the realm of the mistakes you've already made, Bush administration, what have you got to lose? It's not like anyone would be surprised by it.

You've sunk so low, become so openly vile and depraved and bloated and corrupt that, you know, the Washington Post could run a series of articles on how the toilet in the Oval Office washroom is made from the bones of still-living Iraqi children who are kept in the attic of the Vice President's residence because deboned children are easier on his heart and cock while he's banging them, like fucking a stuffed bear or a bag of jello, and most people in the United States would say, "Well, of course Dick Cheney fucks boneless Iraqi children while George Bush shits on their femurs. Did you think they didn't?"

Brent Budowsky, a former aide to Lloyd Bentsen, agrees with Harry Reid, and then says things like the "integrity of the judicial process" and "integrity" in intelligence information and its use. But using the word "integrity" in relation to the Bush administration is like using the word "witty" in relation to Ann Coulter. We don't expect integrity from the Bush White House. We only expect craven self-interest, ideology above reality, and unending crazy threats, to individuals, to groups, to nations. And with an unpardoned Libby perhaps ready to make a deal than facing even a couple of years in the federal pen, well, shit, any feints at "integrity" or "honor" would have to be shredded like so many documents before a Congressional subpoena.

So, c'mon, Bush administration, just get it over with. Pardon Libby. Would it really make you look any worse?

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[BOSSHOG]

1. Excellent Point

It is not possible that bush and his administration of criminals could be held in lesser esteem by law abiding, tax paying, productive citizens of our country.

And, on the other hand, the ignorant trash who still support him think its the thing to do.

And to think, he still has a year and a half to continue to fuck up and drag the republican party and the "conservative" movement through the mud. I wish him well on that endeavor.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Yeah, at least it would be the first publically

honest thing they have ever done.

[LiberalEsto]

3. There's nobody like the Rude One

for perfect description:

"...so openly vile and depraved and bloated and corrupt..."

and apt analysis.

[mike_c]

4. we are not worthy....

The Rude One is a god.

[global1]

5. No Shame - No Embarrassment ........

* knows he has the ability (given to him by the Constitution) to give Libby a pardon. He also knows that the Dems won't do anything or can't do anything about it. There will be public outcry by the Dems for a few days. The cable news shows will make a big deal about it - but they will have the * apologists on - supporting * on this. The furor will die down in a news cycle or two - and *Co is back to business as usual.

When they called Clinton the 'teflon president' - they didn't see * coming at the time.

The sad thing is - if the Dems don't jump on this right away - they will squander the opportunity for any further investigation to this Plame outing and the Niger forgeries - and the lying us into this so-call war.

Already - the * apologists were on last night and saying if Libby flips now - he will have no crediblity as a witness against *Co because he would be seen as a desperate convicted felon.

Rove is already a couple of steps ahead of us again on this and I can hear the pardon coming.

I often wonder how anybody in this administration can even show their face in public any more. The brazeness of them is contemptable.

[Seabiscuit]

6. Advice to the Bush White House?

pretty much the same as Mike Malloy's advice to Republicans the other day: why don't you all just commit suicide - go away - so the rest of us can have our democracy back.