When are they gonna start doing those press briefings right and add a laugh-track?

Libby, "was a lawyer for fifteen years for one of the wealthiest people in the world -- up until the time of his pardon [by Clinton], he was -- arch-fugitive Marc Rich..."

Joe Wilson

Yeah i think Libby can afford it.

What'd he do, call up 3 of his best friends and ask, "How much ya got on ya?"

Yeah, Freddie T. and others in the Repig Party have already raised $5 Million(Yes FIVE)
for Scooter's defense, so what is $250 grand? N O T H I N G..!!

The money came from special interests who "gave" Scooter money to defend himself. Big deal. That's no hardship, or punishment, at all.

Go ahead laugh, but that's half of his book advance!

But..but...think of the CHILDREN!!!

Mary Matalin @ 13:

But..but...think of the CHILDREN!!!

I do, but NOT Scooter's...I think of the childeren in Darfur

freddie thompson's panhandling to the war party for scooter fibby has sure paid off (pun intended).

and, dare i say, this has worked out splendidly for the war party. cheney was protected by a loyal thug, bush never had to discuss the matter, scooter is free, karl rove still has his hand up bush's ass, and enough money was raised to pay fibby's fine, have a cool 3.75 million to funnel to themselves... ahhh, to be rich, powerful and corrupt in bush's 'mmurica.

and best yet for the war party, Operation Iraqi Liberation is still on going.

"Masterminds". . . I think I'm being overly hopeful of the Dems and Dissenting Cons.

GWB @ 18:

Samson- @ 17:

and best yet for the war party, Operation Iraqi Liberation is still on going.

Aaah...it's GOOD to be KING!

:-)

i'm sure cheney sneers those words to himself every morning, imaging that the mirror he's looking at shows his reflection...

"waaah, hee hee, waaaah, king if the waaaah, world"--dick cheney

Doggiebobo @ 22:

L.A. Confidential @ 16:

Where are all the "masterminds" of congress?

They can't figure this out and do the right thing?

Some, like Biden, Coyners, even Hillary, are speaking out, however
the MSM has already decided that bush did the 'right thing" and
are not giving the opposition the coverage deserved..

Oh oh thats right I forgot the Media has the last say in everything.

But think of the tax dollars we're saving not having to keep him incarcerated. Now he's going to have to pay his own living. That'll show him. Thanks, Mr. President.

Cantor de Mambo @ 25:

But think of the tax dollars we're saving not having to keep him incarcerated. Now he's going to have to pay his own living. That'll show him. Thanks, Mr. President.

See. Now this is a fellar that knows what he's talkin bout. This is how we grow the govmint. Well done, son. Well done.

Now watch this drive.

Get that check to the bank before it bounces!

# 23:
No, not the "last say"; but their inaccurate presentations
do have some influence on how vocal WE THE PEOPLE are.
And many, many can hardly wait for new espisodes of "Big Brother"
and trash like that to appear on TV. Writing your respective Congresspersons
is the way to act.

Was Tucker Carlson's mom the first person to contribute to paying this bill, too?

Clavis @ 34:

I don't know why people are so angry. After all, Scooter Libby's reputation has been destroyed. He'll surely have a hard time finding work after this...

... just like Oliver North, Eliot Abrams or G. Gordon Liddy did.

Negroponte, Poindexter . . . etc.

CNN gives us a pic of the check, eh? man...I miss the good old days of diagrams of Ronald Reagan's nose cancer being printed up in the newspapers. That was hard-hitting news, I tells ya!

Bonkers @ 37:

CNN gives us a pic of the check, eh? man...I miss the good old days of diagrams of Ronald Reagan's nose cancer being printed up in the newspapers. That was hard-hitting news, I tells ya!

Yeah some people went. "Wow! Look at that a check for $250,000 dollars!"

Go ask Fred Thompson how hard it was to come up with that money

emobile @ 10:

Reminds of the scene in the movie Quadrophenia wherein the judge solemnly imposed a $250 (quid) fine for disorderly conduct against the mod played by Sting.

Upon hearing the sentence, Sting just laughed, pulled the money out, and said "I'd like to pay it now" ... to the cheers of his fellow mod gang.

Likewise with Libby and the neocon clowns who underwrote this charade.

Then later he turns up in the movie as a bellhop. I wish that would really happen to Libby.

He easily wrote a check from money given by stupid, blind and ignorant Rethugs.

Follow the money.

The judge should have fined him the entire cost of the trial, including lost wages of the jury members, as well as the salary of Fitzgerald throughout the entire time he had to research this farce of a trial. But then the right wing would have cried out, like Paris Hilton, "Not faiiiiir, it's excesssssive!"

He should have had to pay the fine in community service, at minimum wage.

Scooter Libby Pays the $250K: What a Hardship!

Libby paid the $250,400.00 fine today. Yes, what a hardship that was on poor Scooter. He really had a rough time coming up with the money, right Tony?

I just finished going over the transcript. Tony Snow is pathetic. Why does he want to spend the rest of his life prostituting his integrity for this administration? Its unfathomable. He only got one decent question and it reads like it came from the Fox News Chair:

Q Yes, on this topic. Among those protesting the President's refusal to allow the Libby imprisonment was Maryland Senator Cardin, who announced that he was "shocked" at what he called the President's "double standard." And my question: Does the White House recall any such expressed Cardin shock at the non-imprisonment of Democrat lawbreaker Sandy Berger, and Marion Barry, as well as no imprisonment for that convicted perjurer Bill Clinton, and his pardon recipient Mark Rich?

Tony Snow. Nomen est omen.

Not only was it a fine that Tipper could afford, but he had financial assistance (i.e. welfare) in paying it. Tony Snow needs to die. Really. I have no mercy for that dick.

You mean to say that the Scooter doesn't get to wear a lovely ankle bracelet?

Interesting facts in the article. Makes one question whether the man/child Bush acted too quickly in communting Libby's sentence. The man/child Bush may have to pardon Libby after all. Traitors... all of them. Republicans, weak on crime; Republicans, weak on national security; Republicans, strong on lies, obstruction and unaccountability.

John H @ 52:

250k for a miscommunication; a miscommunication that had NOTHING to do with the investigation of leaking. The libs who keep referring to a crime of leaking are so GD disingenuous, because they know damn well what the difference is and what Scooter was charged with, and WHO actually leaked the info, the democrat Richard Armitage

this assisine argument has been blown out of the water, discredited, poked fun of, slammed, joked about, countered, disproved, exposed, pooh-poohed, etc. so many times that the only thing left to be said about it is...

bwahaahaaahaa!

the rightwing is in serious trouble if this is the best they can do. of course, it does take a specially gifted person to argue successfully against logic (and john h, you are not that man--sorry to say)

John H @ 52:

250k for a miscommunication; a miscommunication that had NOTHING to do with the investigation of leaking. The libs who keep referring to a crime of leaking are so GD disingenuous, because they know damn well what the difference is and what Scooter was charged with, and WHO actually leaked the info, the democrat Richard Armitage

Nice try Phcuktard. Also, Armitage was/is a REPUG. Get your facts straight. Oh I forgot, repugs hate FACTS.

Thank goodness Fred Thompson could help him out.

My theory is simple really. Libby couldn't personally afford to pay that kind of money "out of pocket". His money must be spent acquiring the blood of young virgins. Why the blood of virgins? Well, the Libby family bathes in it. It's a necessity. It's got a nice pure color. It invigorates their vampiric souls.
The Republicans support "abstinence only" programs so Libby can find as much of this virginal blood as he needs. Sometimes Cheney, Coulter, Limbaugh and others come over for a "hot tub of blood" party. I know this may sound "crazy"...but, you know, just think about it.

(from my '58' post)

normally would shrug my shoulders and move on but this is too glaring to let go uncorrected, shoulda been:

"this asinine argument has been blown out of the water...."

robert novak, from his traitorous op-ed, 'mission to niger', wrote (and i am quoting a snippet):

"Two senior administration officials told me...."

that first word, 'two', is a number meaning more than one, but less than three. now, i know armitage is a hulking mass, but i don't think novak would have counted him as two people. novak might be pure evil, but he can count.

He paid the fine by sucking 250 of the whitest dicks in DC, I betcha!

[...] Do honestly believe that Scooter will suffer greatly from these fines? Scooter has already paid off the fine like it's pocket change. __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3700+ | 2 GB RAM | XFX Nvidia 6800 [...]

I don't think that many of us could pay it in one payment....

And now these repug morons are saying chimpy is playing to his base instead of another moronic cliche, "duh, he has to play to his base," meaing the idiotic 29%ers. So the hell with the 71%ers.

Money is what repugs have plenty of; they are robbing us of our lives, liberties, beliefs, livelihood, blood, sweat, tears, oil and money.

Our presidency is ruin, the constitution is on a respirator, voter fraud is a repug art form, the legal system has been sucker punched and the economy is in the tanker.

I'm sure chimpy thinks longer on how to remove brush or his golf swing; scooter was promised freedom in return long before he was found guilty.

You better bet it.

From Wolfowitz's World Bank discretionary funds...

will he get to write it off his taxes as a business expense?

No... court fines are not tax deductible.

Don't cry for Scooter, he'll get it all back w/ interest after the pardon. One thing's for sure, I'm sure that an honest integrity laden man like Scoots will declare the 250 large on his income taxes, (@%15 cap gains of course).

Since when did legality enter the equation? Obviously you don't understand "new law". The V.P. is NOT in the executivw branch, and you are violating many as yet unenumerated laws by even suggesting a parollee get probation. He's served his time, now drop it!

scooter paid so promptly so as not to appear dishonorable in the eyes of the public. of course, that wouldn't explain why he didn't pay it the day sentence was handed down, but who's going to draw that distinction?

No big surprise that the banking institution is Bank of America which is a GOP money shaker and mover. That 250K didn't even come from his own pocket anyway. You know the taxpayers paid this.

Given that this administration has stolen and embezzled trillions, $250,000 isn't even pocket change, it's more like the money that stuck to the bottom of their shoes.

Scooter Libby was Marc Rich's lawyer for fifteen years. He testified to Congress that he thought that Clinton's pardon of Rich was appropriate. If Clinton hadn't pardoned Rich, it's quite possible that Libby would have gone to jail for perjury and obstruction and justice in covering up Rich's crimes.

GOP lawyer: Facts 'misconstrued' in Rich case

For all you folks who are sick and tired of hearing about Ron Paul, he is the only presidential candidate who is on record opposing both the pardon of Marc Rich then and the commutation of Scooter Libby now.

What did he do, dip into his piggy bank?