Libby, I'm guilty of your crimes

So ... Scooter Libby's guilty. Wow. There's a shocker. Woo-hoo. Score one for the liberal left. We won. Hooray. Yadda, yadda, fuckin' yadda.

To all those, from former Ambassador Joseph Wilson (a man who has my deepest respect) to Keith Olbermann (a man to whom I toast every night at 11 when I watch his Countdown program on MSNBC), I ask you:

What the hell does this prove?

Anyone who thought Libby was innocent at this point is either too politically jaded to merit any serious consideration as someone with whom one could engage in political discussion, or has been with the BonoBot 9000 for the last four years curing AIDS or distributing condoms to virgin-raping HIVers in Africa or whatever the hell it is that BonoBot does anymore (I'm thoroughly convinced that whatever it is BonoBot does, it doesn't really involve U2 anymore. Well, maybe the Edge, but that's only because the BB9000 needs someone to jump-start him when the battery's running low). Anyone who thinks that Vice-President Dick Cheney didn't have his hands right up Libby's rectal cavity whilst Lewie talked to Tim Russert is dumber than a Jeff Foxworthy fan who wandered onto the NASCAR track in the '70s and got hit by Richard Petty. And anyone who thinks that, ultimately, this will make any impact whatsoever on this White House is the afore-mentioned guy's retarded stepbrother with webbed toes.

Seriously, what is this going to change? President Bush and Vice-President Cheney have proven time and time again that they have no respect for Congress, the Supreme Court, the United Nations, the American public, the world community, or even (and this is scary) previous presidents (even George Senior must be thinking now, Jesus Christ, how the shit did Barb and I pump that monkey turd out? Seriously, I must have retarded tadpoles swimmin' around down there or something...). Why would a ruling against Cheney's former COS change anything?

Honestly, there's only one good thing that can possibly come out of this: President Bush has to pardon Libby as soon as is humanly possible.

"But Brendan," I can hear all my Democratic amigos complaining with bated breath, "Libby broke the law and helped ruin a woman's career with the CIA!" To you I say, it's already done, and what's been done cannot be undone. However, if Bush is to pardon Libby at the Vice-President's request, do you really, really think the smoke-no-fire Democratic Congress is going to let that one slide? That's money in the bank that gives them every reason to open hearings on the outing, which, when it comes out that Cheney had a hand in this, brings up the question of vice-presidential impeachment.

Make no mistake about it: I think Dick Cheney is a horrible, horrible human being, and I believe he has committed treason against this great nation. I think he should be removed from power as quickly as possible. And if his boss pardoning his former Chief of Staff is the only way to get the ball rolling on that, well, quite frankly, that's okay with me. It'll prove once and for all that George W. Bush is the single most incompetent president in the history of the United States, and it will rid us of the cancer that has been plaguing and besmirching the White House since January 2001.