Libby free, Liberty...?

How many people out there are are defending Bush's recent commutation of Libby's prison sentence, I wonder, by decrying, "well, Clinton pardoned dozens of people right before he left office!" I wonder if that rhetoric would work if, after dropping a nuclear bomb on Hawaii, Kim Jong-Il declared, "well, Truman did it back in '45!" Defending the indefensable with the indefensible does not work. This administration's lack of respect for accountability, and its push for absolute power has moved beyond annoying. It's scary. Like, Third Reich scary. Maybe I'll get thrown in Gitmo just for saying that. We'll see: fittingly, I arrive in California on the fourth of July. See you then, California!