A disconnect from reality is evident

Washington DC is to the United States of America what the Zydern Nebula is to the Milky Way...the thread connecting them is tenuous at best. In fact, to the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as a "Zydern Nebula", I believe I just made it up. It is pure fantasy, a made-up world subject to whatever rules and interpretations I choose to put on it.

See the similarities?

Washington DC is awesome. You can have a convicted felon crack-addict Mayor get re-elected because he is doing such a wonderful job presiding over the highest homicide rate in the nation. You can, in front of the whole nation, commit a felony, receive oral sex while dealing with national security matters, and have it dismissed as unimportant by large blocks of people. (I am pretty sure that if I were caught receiving oral sex on the job at my job which, by comparison, is about as important as if I were standing at the end of the on-ramp with a clever cardboard sign collecting change from the gullible, I would be searching for a new job instantly. But that just goes back to how different life is in Washington D.C.)

You can, as the current Congress has, have the lowest approval rating since 1994 and a near-record low, and yet decide you are worthy of a raise. In fact, other than Congress, it is rare to be able to decide to give yourself a raise when other people are responsible for paying your salray, but the rules are different in D.C.

You can be convicted of obstructing justice when no crime was committed.

You can have your jail sentence commuted while still being responsible for a fine and probation.

Bush's decision was immediately denounced by Democrats. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who had demanded that Bush promise not to pardon Libby, called the commutation ``disgraceful'' and said, ``History will judge him harshly for using that power to benefit his own vice president's chief of staff.''

I am willing to bet the hypocritical Harry Reid was against the prosecution of Clinton for perjury and for the prosecution of Libby. The 2 positions are irreconcilable if you take politics out of the equation and replace political ideas with justice. Other than Washington D.C. you cannot have a place where the same crime (perjury) should not be prosecuted on the one hand and should not have a sentence commuted on the other.


Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of Illinois said Bush's action cements his legacy as one of ``cynicism and division'' that ``placed itself and its ideology above the law.''

I am laughing so hard at that statement I almost cannot even type. Simply awesome. Also all I need to see to know Obama has the same chance of receiving my vote in Presidential elections as Hillary Clinton has. Which is slightly lower than the chance of finding intelligent life on Capitol Hill. Which is not a high a chance as you might think.

For someone from the party of cynicism and placing its ideology above the law to recognize that trait in another party is simply too stupendously awesome an irony to gloss over. I tend to agree with his statement...I just find it a case of the pot calling the kettle a cooking untensil.

D.C. is a fantasyland in which whether something is a crime or not depends not on justice, not on legal precedent, not on morality, not on right or wrong, but simply on which party a person belongs to. It took less than 3 hours from the denial of Libby's appeal for his sentence to be commuted. Only in D.C. was that time lag "too long". This is the city where a man was once pardoned for a crime he was not even indicted for, where a publicly committed and admitted crime was a cause celebre showing how a prosecutor lauded for his integrity ended up being called and treated as an evil man for doing his job while a violator of the moral terpitude and felonious portions of his responsibilities became a hero for those reasons, where the same crime was later committed by another man, prosecuted be a much lesser, morally speaking, prosecutor and in this case the prosecutor was a hero.

For my money, in Washington D.C. the primary travesty is that Libby was prosecuted in the first place. If you are going to selectively enforce a law, to pick and choose when it matters, then take the law off the books. Yes, he should have been convicted...and the pardon should have been in his hand about 30 seconds after the gavel struck the podium. "Victimless crimes" such as the last 2 high profile perjury cases are purported to be should either be punished equally or not wasted time with in the first case. Then again, this is fantasyland we are talking about, so what difference does it make?