Scooter's extenuating circumstances(kids)means he'll walk.

[Hubert Flottz]

That's right...Scooter has little tiny kids...The GOPers on TV say not to be hard on Scooter, because he's a family man who loves his kids. They think it would be VERY cruel, to split up that happy family, over this trivial matter of outing Valerie Plame. Wouldn't community service for a week or two, be enough punishment for this man with family values, they ask?

How many Kids have dads and moms that won't ever be coming back from Iraq? Parents who loved their little kids just as much as Scooter cares for his kids. Parents who's only crime was serving their country in the armed forces, in order to feed those kids. Parents who died over Scooter and his co-conspirator's Lies. It doesn't look like Scooter cared about those people who died for his lies, at all. The only thing that worried Scooter about the whole Iraqi war, was his getting caught "Selling" it. The only kids who REALLY matter to the GOP, is the Haves and the Have More's kids.

Those people who uphold the neocons, the haves and the have mores are about as low down as human beings can get, but we owe them compassion? I say the type of compassion they extend to the poor is the very kind they deserve. ZERO Compassion in other words.

[deadparrot]

1. Actually, on AAR last night, they were discussing the judge.

He's a Republican (appointed by Raygun and Dubya), but he is not known to be a defendant's judge.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Fitz isn't even married.

It's Scooter Libby, the perp, for whom they ask compassion.

[deadparrot]

6. They can ask all they will...doesn't mean they'll get their way. nt

[rodeodance]

13. Does anyone know the judges' name?

[deadparrot]

15. Judge Reggie Walton. nt

[cassiepriam]

28. So people with young kids can get away with crimes?

wow.

[MADem]

38. HR Haldeman had FOUR kids, didn't help him, did it? n/t

[rzemanfl]

2. Let Human Services take care of his kids, just like other folks

who commit crimes. I can't believe they are stooping this low, this soon. Isn't he like 55 years old? How young is his wife? What number wife is she? Make them take a blood test to prove it.

[TahitiNut]

40. Yep. It's not like Libby is a fit parent. What does he teach his kids??

It's OK to lie and obstruct justice to send other people's kids to die in an illegal war? Fuck Libby. Jailing him might be a better lesson for the kids than his example has been.

[Hubert Flottz]

45. Same thing a typical egg sucking GOPer always teaches them.

kids to. Lie, Steal, Lie, Kill, Lie, Dodge your Taxes, Lie, Dodge the military, lie, talk bullshit, Lie, Whore around, lie, kiss ass, lie, think they are better than everyone else, lie, blow up frogs, lie, be a racist Nazi, lie...anyway you get the idea.

[H2O Man]

3. Most men in prison in the USA

have children. Perhaps Scooter should have thought about his kids before trying to destroy the lives of the Wilsons, who are also parents.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Or the kids who's parents don't have a job anymore?

Or the kids whose parents can't pay the gas bill?

[peekaloo]

7. Maybe Cheney will find it in his heart to take 'em in.

I kill myself sometimes. :rofl:

[Hubert Flottz]

9. He'd probably take care of his wife while he's gone, if he can get

it up.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. The jury

won't even hear about his kids.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Won't they have to catch a dozen Rats?

The law says a jury of his peers.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

18. Lol good one

[meti57b]

10. Sending kids' parents to fight in Iraq, splits up families.

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Forever sometimes is the sad part.

But I doubt if most of the neocons care about that.

[rodeodance]

11. lots of people are in prision with kids. so we are suppose to feel sorry

for his kids in partucular. This is insane.

[cynatnite]

14. Amazing he can look in the eyes of his children...

after everything he and this regime has done to families here and abroad.

I do feel for the kids as I would for any child who lost or will lose a parent. They're the ones suffering.

I have no compassion for Libby and it's even less for the pain he has brought onto his family and thousands of others.

[Hubert Flottz]

20. What a waste the war in Iraq is.

What evil people are running our country. To think that the people from the churches were stupid enough to support Bush, not once, but twice and are still on his side. Where is the morality they claim to represent?

Sometimes I get really down hearted thinking about what has been done to our country. I don't understand how so many Americans could be so ignorant. How could they have wanted more of this? They really don't care, is the only answer I can come up with, other than greed. I just get tired of being so sad so often. I try not to think about it, but I can't stop myself.

The crack about Libby's kids went through me like a knife.

[hang a left]

16. Let me tell you that argument will just not fly with ANY judge.

The come back is ALWAYS, "you should have thought about your kids before you committed the crime".

[KittyWampus]

19. My Father's Teaching Job Was In A Traditional Italian Neighbohood On LI

very close to the race track. Dad loves horse racing and kids would occassionally come in give him a "sure thing" tip.One of his students had his own father go to jail for taking a rap for the Mob. He told my Dad he and his family were taken care of.

But that's the Italians. IMO, the Protestant Mafia has no integrity whatsoever. Bush demands loyalty but can't be expected to return it.
He/Rove will stab anyone in the back.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. A good friend of mine is dying of lung cancer and he was a

preacher. He told me today, that none of the people from his church have been to see him and he cried. His little church has grown and in the process, the people there decided to get another, "better" preacher last year, when my friend first found out that he had cancer. The new preacher was standing up in church and telling those people to vote for Bush, so he(my friend)quit going there. Things like this, are the reason I quit going to church years ago. I think I can be a better person than that new preacher, right here at home.

[AnnieBW]

22. The Wilsons Have Young Children, Too

The Wilsons have twins who were 3 years old at the time their Mommy's job was spilled all over the media.

[yardwork]

39. That's right. The White House didn't think about Valerie Plame's kids

when they endangered her life and ruined her career.

[Virginian]

46. I think I read that the Wilsons have received death threats over this.

That can't be very good for their twins.

[alcibiades_mystery]

23. Better check those federal sentencing guidelines

Children are not mentioned as extenuating conditions for the purpose of sentencing.

[Hubert Flottz]

26. I didn't say they were, I just passed on what I heard the GOPers

said on TV.

They just keep lying and lying and lying. They are in so far now, that all they can do in lie and cover up the truth. They damned sure don't feel sorrow or remorse about their crimes. They only ever feel sorrow or remorse when it catches up with them. The talking heads remind me of a fox in a trap, chewing it's own leg off to get away.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

24. Oh yea, that's usually the main consideration in court proceedings

So everyone hurry up and adopt or have children if you think you might be indicted!!!!

:sarcasm:

[liveoaktx]

25. Gee. Lea Fastow (Enron) has small children and she spent

a year in the slammer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3692031.stm

[WI_DEM]

27. This is one more reason why "Scooter" will eventually talk

[Occulus]

29. I don't give a single flying fuck about Scooter's kids.

Who the hell cares? I don't.

Let this man rot in jail, and let his kids grow up without him. Let it be a lesson to everyone involved.

WTF? His kids are a consideration now?

Here's what a judge should say to that: "You should have considered them BEFORE you did xyz."

[Missy Vixen]

30. Joe and Valerie Wilson have kids, too

If I recall correctly, they have five-year-old twins. There is a certain element of danger working for the CIA, but damn, I'll bet Joe Wilson and their kids would like to have their wife and mother with them.

In other words, Scooter Libby's kids are more important than the kids whose mother is continuing to be victimized and imperiled by the * administration? I don't think so.

Julie

[Bigleaf]

31. I'm sure that Libby loves his children and wife very much. All of us with

children can relate to that. This is a good thing for Fitz. As a father facing prison time, I couldn't imagine leaving my son when he was small to go to prison. As cold and callous as these thuugs are, I still can't fathom them not loving their kids like most of us. I think Fitz could use this to help Libby regain that memory he temporarily lost. Does Libby want to miss his kids growing or does he want them to know in the end he did the right thing for them and the country?

[Blue Belle]

32. Yes... Fitz should remind Libby of what he'll miss when he has to....

spend so many years away from his children - what he'll miss in mile stones in their lives. He should also remind him of the 1.4 million dollars that is going to come from the kids' college and trust funds... of course, Libby would never think of this as a problem. He's used to putting young children into a financial deficit.

BTW Big Leaf, Welcome to the DU. We're happy to have your input. :-)

[Cha]

33. Great point, Big Leaf!

Welcome to DU!

Ignoble libby needs to think about what he'll be missing out on if he goes to jail for cheney and the WHIGs.

[jayctravis]

34. Matt Cooper had kids too, but he was dangerously close

to getting locked up.

[DearAbby]

35. I guess that every criminal that is sitting in prisons today with small

children should get a "GET OUT OF JAIL" Card. Are they special to receive special treatment? :nopitty:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

36. Thanks to the NeoCons, more than 2000 Americans have died in Iraq....

...and one can only guess at the number of Iraqis that have died.

And we're supposed to feel sorry for one of the scumbags that lied us into that illegal war?

No sympathy from this poster...Libby's lucky he's not being tried for something that would result in his execution.

[kskiska]

37. The Rosenbergs had two small children

and Eisenhower executed both parents.

[Hubert Flottz]

42. Yeah exactly...Let's look at the bright side!

Libby will be doing time with all the parents in the joint for a bag of pot of cheating the IRS out of $1,000.00!

Justice and MORALITY-ur-a$$

[daleo]

41. Libby/PNAC has killed tens of thousands of Iraqi kids

And plenty of American soldiers that are hardly more than kids.

[Hubert Flottz]

43. And plenty of American soldiers who had lots of kids.

And crippled up thousands more parents, who will never be able to take their kids fishin' or to teach them to play ball! But If You Aren't A "Have" Or A "Have More"...Do Your Kids Really Count to Bushco?

[OneTwentyoNine]

44. Awww...how touching--SCREW HIM,hope he goes down for DECADES nt