Merry Fitzmas!
I don't subscribe to schadenfreude. I know that “justice” when visited on one's self, can burn so much more than a wrong accusation.
I don't wish Scooter Libby ill. But I expect that if he did what he did, he'll have to pay for it. Nothing more, nothing less.
And as I sit here at home with a fever and feeling yucky and watching all of this as it plays out on television—and doesn't ABC's Bob Woodruff have beautiful eyes?—“nothing more, nothing less” than due process is the theme of the day. Thanks to Patrick Fitzgerald.
He was flatly honest. Blatant in his defense of the law and of the reasons for not disclosing the public, candid in stating that the American public does not understand some things. Flawed in his politesse by using the “negative” words that are so sound-biteable, rough in his eloquence and lack of savvy.
In lacking all those things, he showed something that no one in the Bush administration has shown at all: respect for the process and the law, the balls to admit when he wasn't equipped for something, the willingness to live within the limits of the law, and eager to impose limits on himself and his power for the good of the ethic.
Power attracts the corruptible, and Fitzgerald, while he seems to understand the necessity of possessing certain powers in this case, is clearly not comfortable with those powers lasting any longer than need be.
I don't know if he's politically affiliated with the Demos or the Repubs (since he's DoJ, I'm guessing Republican), but I like him so far.
And when's the last time the Left and the Right had someone all could like?
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