Scooter gets thirty, Kristol goes krazy

By Michael J.W. Stickings

I know, I know, I haven't commented on the Libby sentencing yet. Honestly, I don't have much to say. He got 2 1/2 years (or 30 months). That's it. (As is often the case, I'm with Benen on this.) There's a ton of reaction at Memeorandum, some of which I'm sure is worth reading.

Rumsfeld, Kissinger, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Perle, Feith. These are just some of the discredited lowlifes, among others, who wrote pre-sentencing letters in support of Libby. Do you really want these guys on your side?

Krazy Kristol is steaming mad: He "feel[s] terrible for Scooter Libby's family". (Boo-fucking-hoo. Maybe Libby and his enablers should have thought about "Scooter Libby's family" before they committed their crimes.) It's all a gross injustice, you see. And Bush should pardon Libby tout de suite. But, well, a pardon may not be forthcoming, and for this, frothing at the mouth, Kristol verbally molests the once-president of his neocon dreams: "So much for loyalty, or decency, or courage." Really, it's taken this for Kristol to turn on Bush? I don't doubt Kristol's man-crush on Libby, but this looks to me like a convenient excuse to break ranks with a hideously unpopular president. (Creature has more on this over at SotD.)

And now... on to the appeals!