Libby's sentence commuted...

[sleigh]

Not that it wasn't expected, but King George has commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby... *sigh* So much for holding a potential jail sentence over someone who might say where the bodies of this foul administration are buried -- W will commute the sentence of any loyalist who happens to be convicted...

Comments

[madtruk.livejournal.com]

I was hoping you'd post this so I wouldn't have to...

Now, what can be done about it? It's clearly within his powers as President. I would hope that the entire Republican party and its organization are held responsible and punished for this President's continued flogging of the Constitution.

It's simply sickening. Too bad Scooter didn't have the death penalty hanging over him-I hear George giggles when he implements that one...

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the president has the right to commute sentences and pardon people, so we can't claim he's overstepping his powers. But... SHOULD he have done it from a moral standpoint? Well...

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

I hate hate hate hate hate --

Gah. Sputter. Spit.

Writer am I. Unable to fully articulate how I feel about this, I am.

Sorry for the outburst. Calling him King George is right on so many different levels.

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

King George III, actually. And the madness thereof, no doubt.

[dancingwriter.livejournal.com]

What beth_bernobich said.

[petofamanda.livejournal.com]

don't know how kosher this is, but andrewsullivan.com has been extensively posting on the latest horrid affair brought to us by the highest levels of our government. The rage is like pudding. rar

[johnjosmiller.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the sentence was too harsh for him. Unlike, say, the death penalty that he allowed for Carla Fay Tucker, and mocked her for it, as well.

[alces2.livejournal.com]

I also think it immensely interesting that by commuting instead of pardoning Scooter, Scooter retains the right to invoke the Fifth, which, at least as far as my reading and television viewing says, would not have been the case had he been pardoned. I'm sure that didn't go into the decision-making process at all . . .