Here it is, Scooter Libby’s receipt from the courthouse — evidence that his lawyers cut a quarter-million-dollar check (plus $400 for some fee) from his legal defense fund and had a courier drop it off. THE SYSTEM WORKS, PEOPLE. MORE »

* Bill is campaigning for Hillary because she can’t get elected just by scaring the shit out of everybody. [Wizbang Politics]
* Romney commutes sentences all willy-nilly like. [Election Central]
* There are still a few places outside of the Balkans that won’t be burning Bush in effigy tomorrow. [Passport]
* Iraq’s cute little government is about to settle that pesky oil issue once and for all. Victory is at hand. [Redstate]

Don’t worry, everyone. Scooter Libby may have have had his sentence commuted, but there’s still a good chance for justice to be served. Because the President can still pardon him, any time he wants and for any reason! MORE »

Want to make your impotent outrage at the Scooter commuting known at the middlingest levels of power? Good news: a blog has posted the White House internal telephone directory, so you can call and bitch out some poor 20-something White House staffer! MORE »

Number of pardons Bush has granted:
113, less than any president in a century.
Number of pardons Bush has denied:
More than 1,000.
Number of commutation requests Bush has denied:
More than 4,000.
Commuting Cheney’s henchman’s prison sentence right after the bail appeal is denied by the U.S. Court of Appeals:
Fuck you, America! MORE »

The usual crybaby anti-Americans are complaining about Scooter Libby’s well-deserved escape from an impending prison sentence. As fine people such as Christopher Hitchens and Henry Kissinger have noted, L. Irve “Scooter” Libby didn’t do anything but launch a coordinated White House media attack on an American CIA agent as revenge on her diplomat husband who was sent by the CIA to Africa in 2002 to confirm that Iraq had bought weapons-grade uranium from Nigeria so that the White House could start its Iraq War. But he didn’t find any such thing. MORE »

Bush finally manned up and did the right thing — kinda sorta didn’t-really-pardon Scooter Libby. MORE »

The U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. unanimously rejected Scooter Libby’s plea for bail instead of jail, and that means Al Qaeda’s Dick Cheney’s No. 2 man is off to prison unless Bush pardons the beloved neocon bureaucrat. MORE »

How awesome is America? We’re No. 1 when it comes to locking up our citizens. Take that, France! MORE »

In a shocking travesty of justice, I. Scooter Libby is going directly to jail (in a month or so). Judge Reggie Walton declined to delay sentencing, seemingly because he just doesn’t like the dude. MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Screaming and crying, Irve “Scooter” Libby was escorted out of a courtroom and back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that he must serve out his entire 30-month sentence behind bars rather than in his home.

“It’s not right!” shouted the weeping Libby, who was convicted of four felonies in a reckless spy-outing case. “Mom!” he called out to Dick Cheney in the audience.

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