Fitzmass Disappointment

Fitzmass has come and gone, and after all of the anticipation what have the liberals unwrapped? Scooter Libby.

Remember all the buzz? Rove’s going down! Cheny might get it too! How close to Bush does his come? Now we finally have a scandal to use to our advantage! My, oh my, how reality fails to meet expectations.

So who is Scooter Libby, other than a guy with a funny name? He’s a high level functionary working for the Vice President. Nothing more, nothing less. He’s an advisor to a man whose job is to support the President. He supports a supporter. But wait! Surely this will bring the Bush administration to its knees! HA!

Who among us knew about Scooter Libby before the CIA leak investigation? Who among us really cares who he is even after all of this? He’s a very replaceable cog on Capitol Hill. The only thing I can think to say about him is “At least he had the decency to resign after breaking the law and perjuring himself. That gives him one up on Clinton.”

But this is not about Clinton in any way. The initial crimes being investigated were very different. Clinton was the President dealing with an opposed Congress, Libby is a nobody (now at least). Clinton’s scandals went straight to the heart of the Presidency itself, Libby, well . . . apparently the President had nothing to with it. Shocker. There is one similarity between this and the Clinton investigation. The people opposed to the President at the time were hopeful that it would bring down a sitting President and give them greater power. So different, so similar.

Other important differences of note: Clinton continued to create more scandals while he was being investigated; no such thing happened during this investigation. The Clinton investigation expanded into the ever-growing list of fresh scandals; this time the opposition is begging the investigation to go back in time to a non-related political issue prior to the crime being investigated.

It’s fascinating to me that the Democrats and their liberal supporters are so desperate to discredit this President that they want a legal probe into whether Bush knew the intelligence he had that led us into Iraq was bad. They are screaming that the REAL cause of the CIA leak was Bush lying to take us to war, so this investigation needs to probe it. What a stretch that is! Had the investigator actually found anything resembling proof of this he would most certainly have investigated it. Fitzgerald is bulldog prosecutor who leaves no stone unturned when prosecuting a case. He absolutely would have expanded the investigation if he had found any evidence that the leak and the war were actually connected.

So in the end all anyone has is an unknown who will fade away as interest in the man dies off. The Democrats will try to keep the story alive so they can have an active scandal they can point to during the ’06 elections to support their dishonest claim that the Republicans are somehow more corrupt than they themselves are. It won’t work. The MSM will run with it for awhile, but as they lose viewers due to lack of interest in the story they too will move on. The only people who care about Scooter Libby are those who hope to gain from his crimes. The rest of us are just shrugging our shoulders in a big “I don’t care anymore” now that we know this doesn’t touch anyone with any actual power.

Better luck next time Dems, if there is one, and I doubt there will be.