Scooter & The Conservative Boo-Hoo

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http://themoderatevoice.com/society/law-legal-matters/13536/13536

Scooter & The Conservative Boo Hoo
By Shaun Mullen

... So how then to explain the hemorrhage of feelings from conservatives this week over the impending imprisonment of a very smart man who nevertheless valued loyalty over honesty, was caught dead to rights and cooked to a turn in a trial that will be appeal proof?

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Yet another bunch of conservatives wail that Walton was too tough on Libby and is a supercillious (read uppity) Negro who refused to kiss the asses of the legal lights who signed Scooter’s amicus brief. As it is, the 30-month sentence is smack dab in the middle of the federal sentencing guideline and Hizzoner is exactly the kind of guy that conservatives would otherwise applaud – a no-nonsense judge who has long hurled fire and brimstone from the bench regardless of whether the perp is a carjacker or a bond daddy gone bad. (By the way, Walton pretty much was required by law to deny bail to Libby because an appeal is going to be DOA given the overwhelming evidence and apparent lack of procedural missteps.)

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This is a remarkably uncreative — and I daresay dumb — response coming as it does from a chickenhawk peanut gallery that had been slavishly worshipful of George Bush until the stink got so bad that they pinched their noses and fled crying that he had not really been one of them all along.

This is a president who himself has taken astonishing liberties with the truth, coddled the rich and shat on the poor, turned a blind eye to the suffering of Hurricane Katrina victims, advocated torture, suspended habeas corpus, applied the law anything but equally, turned the Just Ice Department into a branch of the Republican Party and committed several hundred thousand men and women to a Forever War of which some Libby sycophants have the temerity to say he is an unwitting victim.

Unfair, my ass.

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[Phredicles]

1. Nice - recommended.

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2. "Libby sycophants have the temerity to say he is an unwitting victim."

Chickenhawk peanut gallery indeed.

[Mind_your_head]

3. WOW - well said!

the 30-month sentence is smack dab in the middle of the federal sentencing guideline and Hizzoner is exactly the kind of guy that conservatives would otherwise applaud – a no-nonsense judge who has long hurled fire and brimstone from the bench regardless of whether the perp is a carjacker or a bond daddy gone bad. (By the way, Walton pretty much was required by law to deny bail to Libby because an appeal is going to be DOA given the overwhelming evidence and apparent lack of procedural missteps.)

So who are all these people crying (regarding Scooter), "M-O-M-M-Y it's not fair"? Oh, perhaps all the ones who might carry some guilt (GUILT that they've mostly buried way back in their forgotten CONSCIENCE somewhere?)

Perhaps these folks are thinking, "if Scooter doesn't get away with his perjury (lying) and obstruction of justice, perhaps *I* won't get away with it either someday?

Hmmmmm......perhaps actual PUNISHMENT of serious CRIMES would be a deterrent for other "white-collar" criminals.... (I know that Scooter's crimes are 'well-beyond' the pale of 'regular white collar' crime.....but I think that's how people who are only marginally watching this whole situation might see it....you know, the 'letter writers', who have gotten away with so much for so long).

[SeattleGirl]

4. Great piece. This absolutely sums it up:

"No, I think that all this conservative hankie wringing boils down to one thing: They simply believe that it’s unfair that Scooter has to go up the river."

Boo-fucking-hoo, asswipes! It's about time that these people started getting their just desserts!