The universe was designed in such a way that the Scooter Libby pardon was inevitable
I’m bored with Shrub’s pardon of Libby. Excuse me; not pardon. Commutation. The sentence has been commuted. No jail time for Scooter, which is a crushing blow for literature fans everywhere who’d hoped he would use his months in the clink to write more novels about children being raped by bears.
Conspiracy-minded folks are indulging in various speculations as to why the Shrub pardoned the Scooter. Was it to prevent Scoot from “singing”? Self-important newspaper folks are writing knowing editorials in which they opine that El Presidente is either exerting his massively erect willpower (still hard as a rock after all these years!) or, alternatively, humbly and courageously following his own difficult path to truth and justice, secure in the knowledge that he’s a lame duck anyway. I read all this and I say: oh for chrissake. We’re talking about Shrub. This is a guy who fries retarded people and thinks the Constitution is a piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe. Of course he pardoned Scooter. His whole presidency is one giant fuck-you to justice and accountability and basic human decency. He pardoned Scooter because he could. And he giggled while he was doing it.
I half-expected Salon to front with the story today as well, and they do have some opinion pieces on it, but their lead instead is an interview with Paul Davies, who’s still flogging the anthropic fallacy. Poor guy’s been banging on that box for 20, 30 years now; I wish he would find God already and be done with it. You just wanna send him a nice fruit basket or something.
But as I read the Davies piece, I realized that here was the real explanation for the Libby business. The absolutely amazing thing is that if any single aspect of the universe had been even a tiny bit different, the Libby pardon would not have happened. Think about it! If the gravitational constant were just a tiny bit off, if the strong nuclear force were just an eensy bit stronger, if even one trilobite had survived the Permian die-off (or two, rather), if Shrub didn’t have that recurring problem with constipation — if any one of those or a billion other things had been different, Scooter Libby would not have been pardoned. Now what are the odds of all those things coming together by chance? It’s astronomical. There’s just no way it’s all a big coincidence. It’s almost as if the universe were fine-tuned to make the Scooter Libby pardon possible — and not just possible, but inevitable.
Doesn’t that make you feel better?
5 Responses to “The universe was designed in such a way that the Scooter Libby pardon was inevitable”
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island says:
hahaha… you’re pretty funny for a left-winged crazy person. I’m convinced that George lost his mind when he got re-elected… ;)
Davies, on the other hand, is not a quack.
July 4th, 2007 at 5:23 am EST -
Infidel says:
So what is Bush worried about Alberto Gonzalez giving sworn testimony for? Get on with it, so he can lie the fuck about what happened under oath to the Judicial Committee about his actions as United States Attorney General, get indited for lying to Congress, be prosecuted, receive a sentence which will then be commuted already. Hadn’t Mr.President taken a stance against the kind of leaks that exposed a CIA operative? It could be my befuddled mind, but I though he said some shit about weeding out and severely punishing the bastard that did this. Some bullshit posturing wherein he would not rest, his cabinet would be held to the fire and the traitor would be purged! Who did he think it was going to turn out to be? And then he commutes the sentence? And what about the reporter that spent all that time in jail to protect her sources, protect from what? Okay there is the fine, it’s just that they’re not going to give it to me, its going to be made payable to the circuit court of the nth district so they can pay off some of the cost of mahogany thrones and stenographer payroll.
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Bruce says:
I agree, I’m not losing any sleep over this because I knew it was coming all along. Why anyone would ever believe anything Bush says in the first place is beyond me? Remember when he said that he wanted to see the justice system play itself out with regard to Libby? That was a lie. I knew all along that Bush had no intention of letting Libby see one second of a jail cell.
Ya, it’s hypocrisy, but it’s Bush. Does anyone really expect anything else?
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Violet says:
Bruce, I imagine the only people who still believe in Bush are the folks who also believe the Devil planted fossils to lead scientists astray.
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j0lt says:
Infidel, I think the reason they are worried about sworn tesitmony from other white house flacks is because it can take a year or longer to set up these tricky perjury cases in which case Shrub might no longer be around to commute/pardron by the time the sentence came down (usually a couple of months after conviction).
