Scooter walks

The President, as expected, kept Scooter Libby out of jail. The long brief he enclosed with the commutation indicates they've been studying on the case and knew there might be a time when they'd have to pull it out.

Too bad the President's rationale did not have to be argued before the appeals court or before the judge who laid down the 30 month sentence. I wish someone at PBS or one of the networks talked with the judge, a conservative Republican to whom the President showed no loyalty.

Do you think that African American Republicans will give no thought to this event? But then, African Americans are not the base to whom this President nor the Republican Party plays.

I was thinking that the black tie event shown in "Fahrenheit 9/11" represents to whom the President was playing: "Some people call you the Haves and the Have Mores. I call you my base." None of those people will have to suffer the indignity of jail for covering for the President as Libby did. I imagine that some of the folks at that event had the "chump change" of $250,000 (Libby's fine) on them. I expect one of them has already paid that fine and that Libby has been hired (put on retainer?) by one of them.

The loyalty factor which means so much to the religious right who thinks they are Bush's base is much less likely to be seen during the remainder of the President's term. I think that their loyalty to the President puts to shame the few times he uses it to help someone and they will someday realize it.