Atheist Meditations

First of all, I fucking know that Bush didn't pardon his motherfucking ass. He commuted the prison time associated with his conviction because the Imperial President can do whatever the fuck he wants. He decides what parts of laws He will recognize, and He decides which parts of a sentence His lackey's will serve.

One observation the amuses me: how different this is from most other pardons. Except for a few of the more high profile pardons, most presidential pardons are granted as favors to individuals who have long ago paid the price for their transgressions. Individuals who seek a pardon as a way of wiping a past mistake off of their record - they paid their fines and did their time decades ago - they seek a cleansing of their personal and family honor.

Not a high point in our political culture, but not necessarily an evil that has to be immediately confronted.

Libby didn't get that. His conviction for lying and obstructing justice remains a stain on his cute little name. Maybe Bush just felt he could not pull it off with nixonian approval ratings. More likely he just don't fucking care. Neo cons are like evags in that they just have no sense of public shame. "Who fucking cares how many allegations of corruption and convictions follow my name?!? That don't mean fucking shit to the clique of wealthy men that I run with. I'll still command all the respect a man called 'scooter' by his betters is ever going to fucking command. I've learned to like it."

He's a bitch, a lap dog. Always has been one. . . 'Scooter'.

Still, it is interesting how weak he must be. His bitch, Judith Miller, who published all that junior high level propaganda - rah rah rah , WMD, rah, rah, rah, anonymous source says - did some time refusing to give him up. Became a martyr for the Forth Estate to those whose goldfishesque public memories went back neigh four days.

Scooter can't do any time. He can't even endure processing.

He's got the shit to roll uphill on his masters, but not the balls. Yet Cheney has commanded Bush lay out the pardon, so this guy can't be trusted to have the sac to hold out for even a few hours.

What a condemnation of George W Bush. A man who saw himself as the enforcer of his family, who granted favors and purged underlings based solely on loyalty to the Bush Family. The number two to his number two can't be trusted. No mafia, or even a fucking drug peddling street gang would permit such a limp dick to rise so high; to ever let serious shit pass before a man who can't be absolutely trusted to do a stretch for the organization.

It is ironic in the darkest fucking way that a group of men who are willing to devote five years, with teams of psychologists and treatment that mocks the Geneva Conventions , for the breaking of one of their Al-Qeida enemies - they cannot count on one of their own lieutenants doing a week in a minimum security country club. Oh, he just can't survive being away from his children. . .

I'm re-reading this posting and I think the logical analysis stands 100%. Scooter is already a sympathetic figure to the 30% of my retarded fellow Americans who consume one of Mr. Murdoch's products. Not retarded because they were born that way, retarded because his products are marketed as predictably damaging to the 'ignorant rabble' who consume them. I don't think any human being is 'ignorant rabble', but after a few years of choking on Rupert's Big Media Dick - you might be damaged beyond salvation.

Public Relations 101, particularly after the losses in '06 and the current trends, be to let Scooter do eighteen months and spend every minute lionizing his suffering at the hands of vicious partisans. The fact that they can't do that with him shows how weak he is.