What Bush actually stated was that slammer time for Libby was “inappropriate” not “excessive”.

Fark Scooter and Marc Rich, and Bush_Clinton_Bush.

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He understood that his superiors, Bush and Cheney, are thoroughly unprincipled and unscrupulous men, and he was willing to cast aside his own principles and values and go to whatever lengths necessary to stop in its tracks any investigation that could have uncovered their misdeeds.

That he was caught in his lies and obstruction is a minor failing. His true intent was protecting his dark masters.

b>DON”T PANIC
We all know that Bush is a complete incompetent extraordinaire. We’re also aware that everything he touches is an utter disaster. So this commutation folly will end up blowing up in his face. Given enough time, it’s very likely Pelossi while have to change her mind about impeachment.
KO just announced a special comment for tomorrows program, he will call for Bush and Cheney to resign

Jane you are an American treasure, I admire your courage and strength. It is at times like this that the Lake shines and the truth triumphs. I recently contributed to the Lake and will continue to do so on a bimonthly basis.

Just swuffed this off to Speaker Pelosi:

Dear Madame Speaker,

I am sure you know that this morning the Appeals Court ruled that I Lewis “Scooter” Libby would be jailed pending his appeal, and this afternoon President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.

Madame Speaker, everyone in Congress seems so afraid of impeachment. It is considered unthinkable, so far as I can see. It should not be. Like firing or a divorce it will be unpleasant at the time, but the situation is very bad and cannot get better until the abuser is gone.

Madame, I am asking you to please protect the constitution of the United States and to protect its citizens by exercising the power of the House of Representatives to impeach federal officers who have not carried out their oath. Please set in motion the process of impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Madame Speaker, the House of Representatives was set by the framers of the Constitution as the safeguard against tyranny. Please perform that duty and help us get our country back.

Sincerely,

HotFlash

More tomorrow

I suspect that this really calls for a full blown post, but let me get this out in public right now.

Congress can give Libby immunity and compell his testimony. If Libby refuses to talk, he goes back into the slammer. If he talks and lies, he has new obstruction beef.

Firepups, there are still cards left to play. If Congress can get their shit together in time to play them before Cheney claims all the chips on the p*ker table.

Darlin’s it ain’t over if we don’t quit.

Now, how can we get some guidance to our beloved legislators?

Well, I heard that Congress is on vaca this week. We can all pay our Congress-people a little visit! Wouldn’t that be nice! Just line up! Everywhere! Sorry, I have to go to Jackson, MS for the 4th of July!

What bothers me most in this is the idea promoted in the “president’s” statement that Scooter’s reputation is so much more precious than ours that damage to it is punishment enough for him. What about the reputation of every “nobody” who has been imprisoned for lesser crimes? Slap in the face, y’all. To all of us.

Stone-cold fury time. Time to deliver your true statement and what’s left of justice by way of your appeal response – all in good time. Excellent job of proactively standing your ground. We all feel for you after the long, hard slogging of this investigation and trial, as Jane says so well in this post – and I’m sure your DOJ colleagues throughout the nation do so in spades. But you did it, and you do it, not for this corrupt president who appointed you and heads the branch of government in which you serve, but for the American people and our rule of law – and we know it. You are public servants patriotically upholding your oaths of office and the Constitution on our behalf, in difficult circumstances and against great odds, and we are extremely grateful for your dedicated service.

Bush’s sneering contempt for, and refusal to honor, his own sworn oath to “faithfully execute” his office in accordance with the Constitution – especially when, as here, his fellow lawbreakers threaten to turn state’s evidence against him – was flagrantly revealed today as a direct result of the resounding victory for the government delivered by a unanimous Appeals Panel at mid-day. A Circuit Court ruling that reflects the excellent work of Judge Walton and his staff, and the content-loaded motion response delivered under the duress of a very short timeline by the government. That hard-won ruling, denying Libby’s attempts to assert that an independent DOJ prosecutor is somehow unConstitutional and therefore a ‘close’ question on appeal, stands untarnished by the subsequent abuse of power delivered by the occupant of the Executive Office of the President. The members of the government’s prosecution team have done their job, done it very, very well, and should continue to stand tall in principled opposition to our corrupt Executive Branch leadership.

The ball is absolutely now in the court of our Legislative Branch of government. Independence Day would be a damn good day for our legislators to finally declare and reclaim their independence from the unAmerican, out of control Executive Branch leadership, and to announce that they will now act accordingly by at long last asserting the full measure of the Legislative Branch’s inherent Constitutional powers to check and rein in the now-unrestrained men of bad faith who remain in charge of the Executive Branch and the Armed Forces of this nation.

Glad to see such a strong statement, it was greatly appreciated.