What else will Bush get away with?

A dirty little secret is being hushed up in America’s court system and no one in the country seems to care. The trial of "Scooter" Libby for allegedly leaking the identity of CIA agent, Valerie Plame, whose husband Joseph Wilson just happened to be someone who had publicly questioned the President’s claims relating to the war in Iraq (for the excruciating details check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair ). So they get back by endangering his wife's life. Well, actually "they" did more than that. "They" endangered the life of a government representative of the country. A crime against the state, I would think. But does anyone care?

Some years ago when Bill Clinton was caught with his pants down – literally! – the American public went all holier-than-thou on the poor guy. I just could not figure out why people were looking to him to be their moral guide all of a sudden. The President is our political leader and a regular human at that. Get your moral examples from someplace else. Maybe even take some responsibility for the moral upbringing of your children and for your own self. Wow! What a unique thought!

Clinton's amorous peccadillo had nothing to do with us, the citizenry of that bastion of freedom - America. We put him there to do a job and he was doing it – his success is a subject of much debate depending on your political leaning or, in my opinion, shortage of general intelligence because I'm a fan – but that was what we should have been focusing on. Come on, people! If we were thrown out of our jobs for the mis-steps (of any nature – so don’t go assuming things about me) of our personal lives, then would we see the injustice of it? Oh, yeah, now let’s see who picketh up the next rock to throw.

By now, all the right wing dimwits are bristling testily and going on about “abuse of office” and lying under oath about “that woman”. Get back into your confessionals! It was mutually consenting whoopee – don’t give me the sexual harassment angle. She was smitten, he was in search of stress relief – you guys do promote free markets don’t you? As for lying about it, give the guy a break. His wife was watching at home. What do you expect? What would you do to avoid given the third degree by the missus? But I digress.

The point in raising Bill Clinton’s Oval office antics was to hold up what is happening in the White House now. I refer to this whole new Libby-do affair (couldn’t resist it). Scooter Libby is being thrown to the wolves to save, so it is rumored, Karl Rove and ultimately the Dark Lord himself. Has anybody given thought to this! Someone speaks out against the President and the administration (I love the way they hide behind that amorphous identity) tells on his wife. Disclosing the identity of a CIA agent!! Shouldn’t that count as treason? What on earth are people thinking when they idly sit by and let this incident go unchallenged at the level of every patriotic individual in the country.