My, what a clever boy Bush thought he would be. But I think most Americans will see this move for what it actually is: jury nullification, cronyism, Cheney puppeteering.
News has become a profit center for the media sector, and a constitutional crisis -- in this case, over the administration's refusal to honor congressional subpoenas concerning the fired U.S. attorneys -- would be a ratings winner.
Commuting Scooter's sentence wasn't the worst thing W did this week. Libby, after all, was just a bit player in the Bush-Cheney epic, a mere hit man deployed to rub out a critic. The big story remains the war whose rotted foundation Joe Wilson dared to expose.
In Bush's faith-based epistemology, the strongest possible justification for any action he takes is that he believes in it. Not that it's true; not that it's supported by evidence, but that he believes it.
What counts is how we think about it right now, how we prepare today for when it happens tomorrow, and how we handle it -- politically, emotionally, morally -- when, as it must, it occurs.
