Scooter Squeals

Today court documents revealed what we already knew deep in our hearts, that Bush and Cheney authorized Scooter Libby to reveal classified information. I have yet to hear a strident defense of the accusation but I'm sure it'll go this way, roughly translated from Republicanese: Scooter's just trying to save his ass by giving the prosecutor what he wants. The Swift Boats are warming their engines. Meanwhile, Bush puts another lame-assed excuse for his power grabbing, illegal domestic espionage program and sends Alberto the Fixer Gonzales to Capital Hill to show contempt for Congress. He's not defending himself against charges that he authorized leaks.

It's called situational ethics, the typical excuse the Born-Again give when they're caught doing something they shouldn't. Basically, it's the excuse that the situation justifies the sin. In the case of Bush authorizing leaking of classified material, he has severely pursued leakers, even threatening criminal persecution of them. But when it's to his advantage, he authorizes - note he doesn't do the deed, just authorizes someone else, another typical salve to the Born-Again conscience - Scooter Libby to do the leaking. Libby is then to be the fall guy and is to be loyal to the Shrub excep he isn't. Charged with obstruction of justice, Libby sings. Now Bush has just lost what little credibility he had left with all but the twenty-five percent of the converted who supported Nixon even after he had admitted wrongdoing. The situation justified it will be their mantra, their battle cry and ultimately, their defense in court.

But Bush won't go to court because the Republicans don't have the ethics to do the right thing and impeach him. Maybe the same power brokers who told Delay to step aside for the good of the party will whisper the same thing in Shrub's ear. Third in line is the Speaker of the House. President Boehner? An extension of the last five years of a boehner as president.

Meanwhile, Delay's good Christian followers in Sugarland get in a fist fight with Democrats at a rally for Tom's one-time rival. But I'm sure it's situationally correct to punch out a liberal democrat attacking a good Christian Republican, besides, God forgives all sins....

In closing, I'm forced to agree with Bush: "When America speaks, we ought to mean what we said." Unfortunately, that will never happen on the Shrub's watch. The situation justifies the action, there's then no sin, no honor and no reputation to uphold. There's only the reaction.