Scootergate

There isn't a whole lot I can say that hasn't been said already by a million different pundits and a half-billion bloggers, all with their own unique take, so I wont. I'll just sum up with this statement, paraphrased from Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Tuesday:

• This commutation has for a great many Americans crystallized what political watchers have known for months: that this Administration is corrupt to the core, partisan beyond reason, and believes itself above the law.

What isn't being discussed is that the Administration is right. WWithout a congress in possession of its balls, the administration can do whatever it wants. Nevermind that there's less than two years left in the term. Nevermind that it sets a terrible precedent to impeach two Presidents in a row. Nevermind the political fallout. This President is a menace who is, sadly, above the law unless someone tells him otherwise.

I've been toying with the idea of getting an American flag and flying it upside-down in front of my shop. The upside-down national banner is a wartime symbol of dire, urgent national peril, and I don't know that anything else lately proves that more than the brazenness of the Libby "pardon."