"Away Go Troubles Down The Drain..."

What My Victim President Should Do About Plamegate

"The gentle whooshing sound audible throughout the Greater Beltway is the deflating hopes of assorted journalists, Bush haters, and Democrat officials whose fantasies of frog marches and impeachment hearings are now dead.

Today, the Wall Street Journal excoriates Richard Armitage, Colin Powell, former Acting Attorney General James Comey and Patrick Fitzgerald in terms so strong they seem to have read my mind. The Wall Steert Journal recommends a presidential pardon for Scooter Libby. I would not go for a pardon, though.

If I had the President’s ear, here’s what I’d advise him to do about the conspiracy."<more>

Fess Up, Mr. Armitage
Time to put the Plame conspiracy to its final rest

"All of this matters because it also casts doubt on the thoroughness and fairness of special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's probe that began in December 2003. The prosecutor never did indict anyone for leaking Ms. Plame's name, though this was supposedly the act of "treason" that triggered the political clamor for a probe. Instead, he has indicted Mr. Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice."

"Meantime, as he absorbs the partisan and ultimately trivial truth of this case, why shouldn't he pardon Mr. Libby and put the entire sorry saga to rest?" <more>

Ode to Scooter
Now that we know who to blame for the Plame game
Will the media stem the floods from that dam?
Or will they continue to inflame with the same claim
That the White House orchestrated this fantasy scam?

They have probably gone too far this time,
So silence will be the deafening sound
Of those whose disinterest will be sublime,
Whose complete ennui will fail to astound.

Scooter who? It will be very hard to recall
A name so forgetful, so yesterday.
The scandal is over after all,
Don’t let painful bygones get in the way.

The bad righting of Clarice Feldman, the Wall Street Journal and Mimi Evans Winship = the gentle whooshing sound audible throughout the Greater Beltway.