There’s really not a whole lot I can say. George Bush has absolutely no shame. None.

AP:

President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was just too harsh.

Bush’s move came hours after a federal appeals panel ruled Libby could not delay his prison term in the CIA leak case. That meant Libby was likely to have to report to prison soon and put new pressure on the president, who had been sidestepping calls by Libby’s allies to pardon the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

You let a nonviolent criminal offender accept treatment and rehabilitation rather than mandatory minimum prison sentences, you’re called “soft on crime.” Same if you feel it’s not worth the government’s time or effort to execute prisoners. Or, worse, you feel it’s morally reprehensible.

But aiding and abetting treason - the intentional outing of a CIA operative as political payback for exposing the lies that got us into this disgusting war in the first place? Well, that’s just a minor crime.

Let’s look at the Republican Party’s “values” again:

Lying about consensual sex between two adults: impeachable offense.

Lying about information to protect the VP from being prosecuted for intentionally outing a covert CIA operative: political witch hunt.

There isn’t any word in the English language left to describe the level of despicable slime these people are.

(This comes on the anniversary of Bush’s infamous declaration: “Bring ‘em On,” daring terrorists to attack our troops in Iraq.)