Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Credit where credit is due: Backseat Blogger gets it right.


Since I make a hobby of regularly pointing out the pure, collective dumbassitude of the Blogging Tories, simple fairness demands that I give due when it's earned. Over here, Backseat Blogger nails it with respect to the Libby commutation, particularly understanding what the guilty verdict was all about:

... it’s not the crime that’ll get ya, it’s the coverup.

Exactly. This wasn't about the outing of a covert agent -- it was about the fact that Libby lied about it afterwards, under oath, to FBI investigators.

Sadly, first commenter Jonathan Strong at that article is as horrifically clueless as ever, but it is what we've come to expect from him. And he doesn't disappoint.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Basically Bush invoked the old law of "Keep your patsy from doing hard time and you won't do hard time yourself".

He and Dick run the oval office like an episode of the Sopranos so why not?

Personally I think this is the best present Bush could give the centrists and moderates and even center conservatives. He just handed the legislative and executive branches to the Democrats on a silver platter with some garnish.

The only people actually celebrating are the people who don't think people who commit crimes should be punished for them. You can ask them. Would they be so quick to cheerlead for Scooter if Scooter was a Democrat? No. That's because they believe their side ( and their side only ) is above the law and we are below them.

This imposed oligarchy isn't something the people are going to be happy with in general. Malkinesque talking heads aside, the rest of us are pissed off and aren't going to forget it come election time. We're tired of $200 million dollar bridges to nowhere, and nonsense port deals and 'heckovajobs' flying around for people who are unaccountable.