Pardon Me?!

Scooter Libby gets 2 1/2 years in a Federal Prison for not keeping notes and having a memory that slipped. I took a deposition the other day and the over educated deponent could not remember what happened 4 months ago...yet ole Scooter is a criminal for not having the sequence of events right on a passing conversation years prior. Oh, and HE IS NOT the one who "outed" Valerie Plame as the MSM is pitching this. Richard Armitage did that. He wasn't prosecuted.....go figure.

As for El Presidente Bush....Mr Loyalty, well Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard hits that topic hard:

Will Bush pardon Libby? Apparently not--even if it means a man who worked closely with him and sought tirelessly to do what was right for the country goes to prison. Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino, noting that the appeals process was underway, said, "Given that and in keeping with what we have said in the past, the president has not intervened so far in any other criminal matter and he is going to decline to do so now."

So much for loyalty, or decency, or courage. For President Bush, loyalty is apparently a one-way street; decency is something he's for as long as he doesn't have to take any risks in its behalf; and courage--well, that's nowhere to be seen. Many of us used to respect President Bush. Can one respect him still? (emphasis added)

Indeed.