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On the First Day of Fitzmas…
My Prosecutor gave to Me An Indictment of Scooter Libby. On the Second Day of Fitzmas…..?
Yeah, it’s a mixed bag. I know, we’re all disappointed that we won’t be seeing Turdblossom’s head on a stake in time for Halloween. However, it appears that this isn’t the end of the investigation, and now the question becomes: what will Scooter do? His indictment places his boss, Cheney, squarely in the crosshairs. Will Scooter fall on his sword, Liddy-style, to protect the administration? Or will he sing like a canary to avoid jail time?
My hunch is the latter. After all, Bush has publicly promised to fire anyone from his administration who had anything to do with Plamegate. (Granted, promises from a congenital liar like DubYa are virtually worthless, but it would be hard for even him to go back on this one.) And once Scooter is cut loose, what reason would he have to keep quiet?
(UPDATE: Scooter has resigned following the indictment. That takes care of the “will he be fired?” question. The “Will he sing if he’s facing jail time?” question, however, remains to be answered.)
For that reason, my further hunch is that we will soon start to see a whole lot of “Libby is a Loose Cannon”-type articles suddenly spewing from the stinking mouth of the Right Wing Noise Machine. Considering the fate of every current or former administration member who has ever had the audacity to criticize it, this strategy makes perfect sense. They don’t know what Libby will say, so a “pre-emptive sliming” of his character is the logical next move.
Indications are that, at this point, Patrick Fitzgerald is planning to extend the grand jury’s timeframe or empanel a new jury, which suggests he has bigger people in his sights than Scooter Libby…and he’d damned well better, because the future of our democracy is at stake. This investigation can’t end with a Chief of Staff. The Bush administration cannot be allowed to get away with inventing reasons to go to war and jeopardizing national security in order to exact petty political revenge on those who attempt to call their bluff, and have only a few minor beaurocrats face charges as a result. To date, not one person in this administration has been held responsible for their appalling record of lies, corruption, and sheer, mind-boggling incompetence and stupidity.
Enough is enough.
