Scooter's Commuter: The Madness of King George

In today's column by Dan Froomkin in the Washington Post, his headline is "What Was Bush Thinking?" It's quite clear what Bush was thinking. In fact, the planning was brilliant by any standard.

Bush, Cheney, and their legal staff put more thought into this commutation than they've put into anything in their administration's history - including planning for Hurricane Katrina, going to war in Iraq, ENDING the war in Iraq, protecting us with pre-9/11 intelligence reports, global warming, the economy and protection of jobs in the U.S., and the dismissal of the U.S. Attorneys.

If Bush PARDONS Libby, then questions can and will be asked. By stepping in and commuting the sentence, above all protests, and despite massive disapproval, they can still play the "it's under appeal" card. In other words, they've pardoned him without pardoning him before the election. They won't be asked questions, because they can say, "It's under appeal", as they have all along, and this Congress and the Washington Press Corps(e) will capitulate. It's a convenient excuse for the latter to not have to ask questions.

So the questions stop here. Scooter goes free. And neither Scooter's Commuter (King George), nor Prince Dick have to be asked any questions.

They obviously don't care about the fallout. It must be better than what Libby might divulge if made to serve his sentence.

Scooter will obviously be pardoned in the end. Now if they could only put this much thought into what to do about Iraq, New Orleans, and global warming. In fact, I'd accept this much planning on ONE of those.