What bothers me most about the pardoning of Scooter Libby is that he is the symbol of the lies and the deception and the smiling evil that has hung over this country since December 12, 2000. He represents the smug arrogance of an administration that has always, always, always put the Republican Party and political gain above anything this country used to be worth. Outing Valerie Plame wasn't just about ruining a woman's career to get back at her husband; it was a proxy for what has been done to anyone who tried to inject some truth into the government during Bush's reign - they get undercut, and then they piss in your eyes once you're on the ground. This administration - there is no regard for the truth whatsoever. It has been an all-out assault on reason.

So today, the only goddamn thing that anyone has to show for anything in terms of retribution for sending men and women my age over to Iraq to die for nothing was taken away by this. What a fuckin' great time I bet Dick Cheney had writing this up for the idiot in charge:

I have made my own evaluation. In preparing for the decision I am announcing today, I have carefully weighed these arguments and the circumstances surrounding this case. Mr. Libby was sentenced to thirty months of prison, two years of probation, and a $250,000 fine. In making the sentencing decision, the district court rejected the advice of the probation office, which recommended a lesser sentence and the consideration of factors that could have led to a sentence of home confinement or probation. I respect the jury's verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby's sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison.

Bullshit. Bush has never weighed a damn thing importantly in his life. He should be the last person to bring up someone ignoring advice. And he is the goddamn last person on Earth or in Heaven, Hell, or whatever the fuck you may believe in, to talk about respect. Every single day that odious asshole has spent in office, he's spent it shitting on the American people - whether it's been tax cuts or stem cells or ignoring warnings about September 11th or lying to Americans about Iraq or authorizing torture or spying on Americans without warrants or letting people in New Orleans drown while he celebrated John McCain's birthday or letting our soldiers rot in Walter Reed or using RNC emails at the White House or using the GSA for political strategizing sessions or for killing the environment or for fucking up every single goddamn day in office, lying about it, and making everyone's life fucking miserable he goes out in public and speaks like the fucking imbecile that he is.

But you know what? Bush doesn't give a goddamn fuck what you think about him.

White House officials said Bush knew he could take political heat and simply did what he thought was right.

Of course he can take the political heat - he's broken 30% easily - and yet the Democratic Party hasn't done a goddamn thing to make him stop. They capitulated on Iraq, and they've suppressed all talk about the only goddamn thing that will make it all stop, once and for all.

Impeachment.

Whether or not the Democrats in Washington, D.C. can stick a finger in the wind to find out what's going on, it's pretty damn clear that people around the country - in the cities, in the suburbs, in the motherfucking backwater - they're all pissed as all hell at what's going on in this country. And they're just as pissed that the people who were elected to do something about it in Washington haven't done jack shit about it to date. And it should be abundantly clear that dicking around and biding time for November 2008 is too damn long to wait. Because by then, everything will be swept under the rug or shredded or deleted, and no one will give a flying fuck about Bush once the loathsome turd goes back to Crawford for good - just like when Reagan left office, no one gave a half shit about Iran-contra anymore.

This is about accountability. This is the Democratic Party's moment of truth. It's time for the people we elected to suck it up and do what is required of them.

Impeach the motherfucker's ass, starting right now.