for nothing left to lose."

With Bush's approval rating in the toilet and only diehard Republicans standing by their man, Bush is immune to any negative side affects from pardoning Libby. As Dickerson pointed out, a Libby pardon may actually help his approval ratings as a lot of conservatives are banging the drum for a pardon. Because of that, Bush will pardon Libby.

That in it of itself is comical. Aren't conservatives supposed to be the law & order types? Yet here they are criticising the Republican appointed Special Prosecutor, Republican appointed judge, and calling for the pardon of man convicted by a jury of his peers. I guess they're only for "law & order" part of the time, eh?

I for one don't like that politics seems to be more important than law and order in our modern society. Politics have become like sport with Democrats like the Red Sox and Republicans like the Yankees. They both seem to care more about winning than playing a good game.

No offense intended to the Sox or Yanks.

I hope you are never charged with such nebulous accusations, after being grilled for hours about a "crime" that never happened.

Your memory may be flawless, but Libby's defense that what he had told the investigators (in the Plame"outing") was based on faulty recollection, seems pretty plausible.

My dad always told me: You never have to remember anything if you always tell the truth.

Seems kind of odd that if Libby's memory was so poor (which, btw, testimony indicated it was not) that he didn't take the standard politico dodge of "I don't remember, or I don't recall". Instead, he stuck to some story he apparently made up that was directly contradicted by other witness' testimony. Regardless of whether or not there was enough evidence to prosecute someone of the underlying crime, a jury did indeed weigh the evidence and found him guilty.

You're just going to have to come to terms with that.