Goin’ to the Mat for Scooter (Libby’s Liberal Litigation Fund)
I am absolutely in favor of all those friends of Scooter, the bunch who are putting together a web site for his defense fund. Irv Lewis Libby, more famously known as Scooter, you may need to be reminded, is the indicted former chief of staff to the unindicted, often unavailable and sometimes undisclosed-locationed vice president of the United States. I say you may need to be reminded, because it’s been almost four months since he got tagged and four months is an eternity in the ‘what was that guys name, anyway?’ game.
Friends of Scooter haven’t forgotten and I applaud them. When a guy’s spent a major part of his life in the thin atmosphere of guys like Cheney, who just naturally suck all the oxygen out of any building they occupy, he’s not likely to have much of a nest-egg laid by. My guess is that any ordinary run-of-the-mill chief of staff, in Washington or elsewhere, would be financially buried defending himself against the feds. Practically speaking, it’s either cop a plea or just …