He commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby. Despite everything saying “leave this alone,” he did it.

…

Fuck.

Y’know what, folks? I’m done with him. I voted for him twice, both times eagerly. Hell, I’ve defended those two votes on multiple occasions when I lived in Austin. But after George W. Bush commuted the sentence of Libby yesterday, thus damning my party’s chances of taking either Congress or the presidency in 2008 or any year any time soon for his own political motivations (or more to the point, Cheney’s motivations), I’m done with him.

Bad enough that the man can only speak coherently in public when he’s so tightly scripted that the word “airtight” comes to mind. Bad enough that the only proof he can give that the “war on Terror” is succeeding is by saying “Well, there haven’t been any attacks since 9/11.” Bad enough that the letters “WMD” have had to become a punchline given the joke that is the invasion of Iraq.

Bad enough he politicized 9/11. (That’s the one that really sickened me.)

Now, he’s ruined any chance of the party that I loved, the party of Reagan and Lincoln, to retake the White House in 2008 because he couldn’t keep his political dick in his pants long enough to realize that he was screwing over his own party with it.

It doesn’t matter if Scooter Libby was a fall guy or not. It doesn’t matter, because he became much more than that. He became a symbol of an Administration that has made every political battle personal and ugly, and that has used every bit of influence within its power to retain said power. Bush has managed to find every wrong step in the Scooter Libby affair, and it’s fairly obvious that the short-sightedness of this move took into account nothing involving what would happen beyond the initial “Hey, Scooter’s free! Heh heh.” I’m convinced that sometime in the next few weeks, someone high up will resign from the White House staff for”personal reasons.” I’m expecting that person to be the one man or woman who stood up and said “Hey, this is an incredibly bad idea and this is why.”

Congratulations, Dubya. You’ve managed to completely fuck over the Republican Party, and the American People in one fell swoop. In the process, you’ve alienated a man who had never even once considered abandoning the party he loved until now.

Fuck you.

Out.

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