That would be a little hard to do -- since it would be a cold day in hell before I ever pursued a career as a lifetime Beltway hack.
Mr. and Mrs. Libby are going to retire with more money to their names than most Americans would earn in 100 lifetimes. Don't you lose any sleep over this.
"AND AT NBC: I assume David Shuster, Chris Matthews, and Keith Olbermann are incoherent with glee (the "incoherent" is a safe bet in most scenarios). However, we eagerly await word from David Gregory as to whether Ari Fleischer was credible when he claimed he leaked to Messrs. Gregory and Dickerson."
Before anyone feels too sorry for Lewis "Scooter" Libby, remember:
"Libby's testimony:Lewis Libby comes to Marc Rich’s defense.
March 2, 2001
Lewis Libby, a top Republican lawyer who is now vice president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, told the House Government Reform Committee last night that he agreed with much of Bill Clinton's widely discredited op-ed article outlining the former president's reasons for pardoning fugitive tax evader Marc Rich.
In a session that stretched late into the evening, Libby, who represented Rich for several years ending in the spring of 2000, told the committee he believes Rich is not guilty of the tax and racketeering charges filed by federal prosecutors in 1983. Libby also said he "quite possibly" would have considered applying for a pardon for Rich had Rich asked him to do so.
Libby, who said his law firms collected as much as $2 million for representing Rich, testified he had nothing to do with the application that led to clemency for Rich. He declined to say whether he approved of the decision to pardon Rich, but he conceded that he called Rich on January 22, two days after the pardon, to "congratulate him on having reached a result that he had sought for a long time." Libby testified he made the call from his home to make clear that he was calling in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of the Bush administration."
Why does stick in your craw? You don't believe in capitalism?!?
AC, your blithe non-concern about this, the process or ramifications is amazing and slightly disgusting at the same time.
You needn't respond to me anymore about this issue. We are on different planets about it apparently.
You do a great disservice to some of our very loyal and patriotic statesmen when you paint everyone in elected office with such a broad brush. Simply being there to serve does not necessarily make one a "hack".
Mr. and Mrs. Libby are going to retire with more money to their names than most Americans would earn in 100 lifetimes. Don't you lose any sleep over this.
OK. Since he and his family have money, he is not entitled to sympathy for having his liberty stolen from him by a rogue prosecutor and jury? This is not a game, and this is not funny. Injustices like this must be confronted. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone.