Scooter Libby fell hard today and a trip to the Big House may be in his future. But, at this point, equally likely is a pardon, or a trade-up with the prosecutors for a bigger fish.... perhaps one with a black heart, greedy soul and a really bad attitude.
If he's destined for prison, he's gonna need a better nickname. A name like "Scooter" is almost a guarantee that a welcoming basket of lipstick and a nightie will be waiting for him when he checks in.
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yup... and the Repigs would have to kiss off the Whitehouse for 12 years instead of only eight.
Hmmm, Let me see if I can remember all this. Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon in '74. In the wake of Watergate in the '74 elections the Republicans get trounced. Gerald Ford loses the presidential election to Mr. Peanut in '76. All the pundits declare the Republican Party a dead entity. Mr. Peanut's feeble presidency is done after four sorry, long years. Enter Ronald Reagan. I wouldn't be making a lot of predictions there RT. Never underestimate the Democrat Party's propensity to screw up anything.
Swampy:
True enough..... but it would take an exceptionally concerted effort to dig a hole deeper than the Bush/Cheney cabal.. This administration will get more historical coverage than the Nixon clusterfuck ever could hope to.
Tricky Dick should know all of this...
The country was happy to see Nixon pardened as it was an embarrasment. You conservatives should long for the time where we respected our public officials and didnt delve into their personal lives unless they blatantly crossed the line.
Ford needed to pardon Nixon to bring closure to the event and to move the country forward. There could be no greater punishment to Nixon then the embarassment that he felt.
There is no great call to absolve Libby of his sins (Just like there was none for G Gordon or the other perpertrators of the breakin). He is a hack that got caught. He deserves to be punished as an example to the administration.
But I only want to see him go the a federal country club until 2008. Let Bush pardon him then as he is leaving office. It will be the icing on the cake to a horrible tenure in office and will serve as a great starting point for the historians to put the true ineptness of his presidency into historical perspective.
Mr. Idiot! may have misnamed himself.
.... Except, I really think the nation needed to see Nixon go to prison for the rest of his life. It would have taught him a lesson and served the nation's need for the equal application of justice.
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