Well what have we here. Dubya granted 29 pardons today, and poor Scooter was not among them:

The Justice Department’s list of pardons, issued in the tradition of granting clemency during the holiday season, covered a variety of crimes including cocaine distribution, marijuana manufacturing, mail fraud and bank embezzlement.

Bush has not ruled out a full pardon for Libby, whose case put the inner workings of the White House under a microscope and ignited a debate about whether the Bush administration misled the nation when making the case for war in Iraq.

High-powered allies like Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson raised millions of dollars to cover Libby’s legal bills.

I can see Mr. and Mrs. Scooter sitting at home tonight, ice cubes clinking as they wave their highball glasses with abandon in some scene out of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf and curse the ungrateful Bushies who don’t understand that Scooter is a great man, a true patriot and an American hero whose loyalty they have never repaid in kind.

Oh well it will be a more cheery scene than the Conrad Black house.

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