Scooter Madness
Everybody's blogging about Scooter. I count 21 out of 23 posts at Talking Points Memo, since 5:45 EST, dealing with the Libby sentence commutation (no, it's not a pardon--a pardon would mean Libby would not be able to invoke the 5th amendment and would therefore be a liability to the administration were he to be called to testify in future investigations; see here, here and here for more). And the other two posts did make mention of Libby, as in "Just so it doesn't get lost in the Libby avalanche," and "I hate to rain on the all Libby all the time parade . . . . "
TPMmuckracker runs close behind with 9 posts about Libby since the news broke. FireDogLake has 6 posts on the Scooter events, and a 7th just before news of the commutation broke about the judge's denial to delay prison while Libby appeals (which is quite the moot point now).
Washington Monthly shows only 3 posts on the subject, but Kevin Drum is on vacation--and posted anyway--and Steve Benen is pulling double duty covering Kevin's desk and keeping up his own at The Carpetbagger Report.
Matthew Yglesias posts a meager 2 items on the subject, while his colleague at The Atlantic Online, Andrew Sullivan, posts 3 items, the most interesting of which ushers in a breath of fresh air and a reminder that this isn't just about liberals and conservatives.
Is it now the conservative position that only left-wingers actually object to people getting away with perjury? . . . It seems to me that real conservatives - not the lawless hoodlums now parading under that banner - should be as outraged as anyone.
Daily Kos has 8 posts on Libby, if you don't count the multiple updates to each post which would jack that total to about 17. Atrios has a couple or three, and easily more comments than anyone else (how does he do that?!). Digby also has three, and I just realized I don't have her on my Voices list, a mistake to be remedied promptly. I love her chagrin:
Just in case Bush's Fourth of July "fuck you" to the American people wasn't emphatic enough, here's a double "fuck you," with a twist . . . .
She goes on to discuss Karl Rove's continued--and questionable--roll in the White House as "Bush's Brain," pointing to a Washington Post article on Rove's security clearances given his role in and around the Valerie Plame affair.
And oh yeah, Drudge has Scooter coverage too. The first 11 items on the page are Scooter related. Go figure.
Anyway, that's what I've been doing with my time since the news broke. Almost more fun than writing about Scooter myself. Just wanted to share.
