Scooter Lessons

What can be learned from the saga of Irving "Scooter" Libby?

The first and most powerful impression is that President Bush has made John Edward's "Two Americas" campaign argument far better than Edwards himself.

A cavalcade of liberal socialists, regardless of party affiliation, rallied to Irving's support, revealing the divide between those who rule and those ruled. Aided and abetted by traitors to their vocation and responsibilities, Woodward, Russert, Novak, and Miller, whose fealty to power trumped their duty to inform.

Also, that the stated principles by which Americans are said to 'govern themselves' are mere words to be 'twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools', and are now even more hollow.

So what will come of it? Probably very little. Americans are notorious for their impatience, baseness, and inscrutably short attention spans. Thus it is entirely predictable that another subject will soon grab their attentions and today's lessons will be almost entirely forgotten within weeks. And even more disturbing, if it is not forgotten, those with a vested interest in removing the subject from daily discussion will engineer it's supplanting with actions that cannot be ignored.