BTW, nothing on Libby getting 2.5 years for lying? Must be busy, eh?
(In a surprising bit of candor for them, the Post pointed out that Sandy Berger (former clintonista) only got community service for STEALING classified documents from the National Archives. Actually, not so much candor--they quoted another paper's editorial).
Now the fun starts. Walton will undoubtedly deny a stay of sentence pending appeal in order to force W to consider the pardon earlier than he would have liked. Should Libby get one? Well, if Clinton can pardon a tax criminal on the lam, why not?
(and let's not read too much into the fact that Walton was named to the bench by Bush 1. He is a solid dem who came from the Carter Justice Dept and the DC Superior Court. DC is one of the judicial districts where 'pubs will nominate dems in order to please a senator or burnish the bipartisan credential. Another notable dumping ground for Dem judges is Massachusetts, which explains how that disaster of a judge Nancy Gertner got nominated.)
Dem Schmem -- from Wiki on Reggie B. Walton: 'Despite his appointments by Republican officials, The Washington Post reported, "fellow judges and lawyers who appear before him say Walton's decisions do not appear to be guided by politics but by a tough-on-crime mentality". Walton is known by local defense attorneys as a "long ball hitter" - a judge willing to impose long sentences in order to deter future crimes.'
Oh, I don't decry the fact that he got a long sentence. If he perjured, he perjured.
What would fry my onions is (1) if he is "really" being sentenced for the fish that got away (whoever that may be, if any); (2) that prevaricating about immaterial facts typically doesn't land jail time, let alone a near maximum sentence; and (3) the fact that Berger got off light, meaning he (Berger) got a Dem-symp of a judge who isn't a long-ball hitter.
Some fairness please. That is all I ask. If the judiciary is going to be the last line of defense, it has to put away the partisanship, and we have to have a definition of qualified that doesn't include ideology.
let's see: dubya appointed patrick fitz... poppy appointed the judge... jury of peers, etc...
am i missing something as unfair... ?
not even "dem schmem", the sentencing was by a hard-ass going after a minnow in an ocean of corrupt whales... the purpose being, as you well know, is to get scooter to flip on his boss satan...
it happens to the littlest of stoolies of the world; it happening to an exec staffer for the VPOTUS, and came *this* close to taking down the exec staffer to the POTUS, should be met with satisfaction that our justice system still exists as "our last line of defense"...
"fairness," says you? "equal justice under law" says i...
besides, it's academic: libby doesn't see day 1 inside before dubya's hand is forced and he pardons the punk...
berger should've been fried too...
and since you mentioned clinton's pardoning of the rich scumbag at the end of '00, let us not leave unmentioned poppy's pardoning of cap weinberger to preclude cap implicating poppy in the iran/contra shit, in which poppy was up to his eyeballs...
if that doesn't define "obstruction of justice" nothing does...
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As long as you did not lose your head with it ;-)
BTW, nothing on Libby getting 2.5 years for lying? Must be busy, eh?
(In a surprising bit of candor for them, the Post pointed out that Sandy Berger (former clintonista) only got community service for STEALING classified documents from the National Archives. Actually, not so much candor--they quoted another paper's editorial).
Now the fun starts. Walton will undoubtedly deny a stay of sentence pending appeal in order to force W to consider the pardon earlier than he would have liked.
Should Libby get one? Well, if Clinton can pardon a tax criminal on the lam, why not?
(and let's not read too much into the fact that Walton was named to the bench by Bush 1. He is a solid dem who came from the Carter Justice Dept and the DC Superior Court. DC is one of the judicial districts where 'pubs will nominate dems in order to please a senator or burnish the bipartisan credential. Another notable dumping ground for Dem judges is Massachusetts, which explains how that disaster of a judge Nancy Gertner got nominated.)
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Dem Schmem -- from Wiki on Reggie B. Walton:
'Despite his appointments by Republican officials, The Washington Post reported, "fellow judges and lawyers who appear before him say Walton's decisions do not appear to be guided by politics but by a tough-on-crime mentality". Walton is known by local defense attorneys as a "long ball hitter" - a judge willing to impose long sentences in order to deter future crimes.'
Oh, I don't decry the fact that he got a long sentence. If he perjured, he perjured.
What would fry my onions is (1) if he is "really" being sentenced for the fish that got away (whoever that may be, if any); (2) that prevaricating about immaterial facts typically doesn't land jail time, let alone a near maximum sentence; and (3) the fact that Berger got off light, meaning he (Berger) got a Dem-symp of a judge who isn't a long-ball hitter.
Some fairness please. That is all I ask. If the judiciary is going to be the last line of defense, it has to put away the partisanship, and we have to have a definition of qualified that doesn't include ideology.
let's see: dubya appointed patrick fitz... poppy appointed the judge... jury of peers, etc...
am i missing something as unfair... ?
not even "dem schmem", the sentencing was by a hard-ass going after a minnow in an ocean of corrupt whales... the purpose being, as you well know, is to get scooter to flip on his boss satan...
it happens to the littlest of stoolies of the world; it happening to an exec staffer for the VPOTUS, and came *this* close to taking down the exec staffer to the POTUS, should be met with satisfaction that our justice system still exists as "our last line of defense"...
"fairness," says you? "equal justice under law" says i...
besides, it's academic: libby doesn't see day 1 inside before dubya's hand is forced and he pardons the punk...
berger should've been fried too...
and since you mentioned clinton's pardoning of the rich scumbag at the end of '00, let us not leave unmentioned poppy's pardoning of cap weinberger to preclude cap implicating poppy in the iran/contra shit, in which poppy was up to his eyeballs...
if that doesn't define "obstruction of justice" nothing does...
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