From an unidentified right-wing apologist, shedding crocodile tears for the now-convicted felon, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby:

I am so sad today. This is utter madness.

No, utter madness is a sham perjury rap for getting a consensual blowjob while in office.

I know that there are those who would liken US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to the rogue Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr (and we can all thank David Souter for usurping Starr's once-intended federal appointment), but to me, that's comparing Elliott Ness and his techniques of law 'n order to Tomás de Torquemada.

Oh, there are those who'd still have you believe that Fitzgerald is bent on destroying Republicans, what with his "wanton prosecution" of disgraced IL governor George Ryan, but then they'd be left to puzzle over why Fitzgerald had pursued prosecution of IL governor Blago's (D) benefactor Antoin Rezko or his "partisan pursuit" of Mayor Daley's jobs chief James Laski in the Chicago "Hired Truck" scandal.

No Saturday Night Massacres forthcoming in this case, I'm afraid.

However, I assume, as do many others, that the ink was dry on the pardon paperwork this afternoon before you could say "Elliott Abrams."

Justice by the half-measure... guess I'll settle.