Untouchable Scooter Scoots as Conyers Blows Hot Air

Tweet From Another Day in the Empire, the reality of the Dems "opposition" to Bush's commutation. Read whole story here (portion below) http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=917:

“'We’re trying to examine the use and misuse of the clemency power and the commutation power and we’ll be examining it of all presidents because that’s the only way we can determine whether they’ve been used properly and whether there should be changes considered,” Conyers said as he yanked our chain. “We may be able to restrict it in some ways, but in addition to, we want everyone to be examining it,” in other words Conyers wants to change the Constitution. Of course, this is about as likely to happen as Bush doing the perp walk in a freshly starched orange jumpsuit.

"In response to Conyers’ hot air, ranking committee Republican Lamar Smith of Texas told Fox News: “I really on the whole think the Judiciary Committee has a lot better things to do than to spend time investigating what is a constitutional prerogative of any president, Republican or Democrat.” In other words, the Judiciary Committee, and Congress as a whole, should mind its business, that is to say attending to the business of transnational corporatism and the global elite, busy rendering the United States into a feudal plantation, sort of an Americanized version of the slave gulag in China.

"Meanwhile, “Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., announced he will introduce a censure resolution against Bush for his ‘egregious and politically-motivated commutation of Scooter Libby’s prison sentence’…. ‘This presidential intervention is an unconscionable abuse of authority by George W. Bush, and Congress must step forward and express the disgust that Americans rightfully feel toward this contemptible decision.’”

"Please, spare us the theatrics. Neocon Libby, who not only outed CIA agent Valerie Plame for her husband’s crime of telling the truth about the Saddam’s illusory yellowcake but is also an “egregious” war criminal par excellence, will skate and in six months, as the decider-commander guy approaches the end of his “term,” few will remember his name, let alone his crimes, most notably and opprobriously his prominent role in the methodical slaughter of more than 750,000 Iraqis, a total stacked upon Clinton’s supervision of killing off
1.5 million Iraqis, mostly helpless children, by way of “sanctions,”
that is to say a decade-long medieval siege.

"Don’t expect Conyers and the Judiciary Committee to take up discussion on genocide, as the lives of Iraqis are really quite insignificant in Washington. Instead, for the moment, we can expect our “representatives,” actually representing Wal-Mart and Halliburton, to continue making ludicrous comments, designed to assuage the outrage of average Americans, or a few anyway, who know a sweetheart deal when they see one, not that it particularly matters. In a week or two the Libby outrage will be paved over by the next dizzy antic of Britney Spears or a drunken American Idol contestant.