Lewis "Scooter" Libby Convicted on 4 of 5 Counts

Well, Scooter Libby has been convicted. Before people panic or begin to celebrate, it is good to remember a few things... a refresher course if you will.

1.) Let us remember that Bill Clinton was taped in the act of committing perjury. It's almost impossible to imagine something more convincing than a video tape. Yet somehow, the special prosecutor declines to pursue the case any further. Who wants to bet it was out of fear that he couldn't get a jury in Washington D.C. to convict?

2.) Consider that the Democrats voted in near complete and total lock step not to convict President Clinton at his impeachment trial. Perjury didn't seem all that important to anyone on the left then. Now that Libby's been convicted, it's a high crime. Bleh.

3.) You've got to bring in the question the sort of justice Republicans can get in Washington D.C. when Sandy Berger was given a slap on the wrist for not only stealing highly classified documents (as in like 10 people could see them), but also hid them in a place where someone else could have found them.

4.) Consider the fact that Harry Reid's anger and dismay when he discovered that top secret documents were covered in Sandy Berger's ball sweat and wasn't prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Wait, you don't remember him getting angry. Hmm, neither do I.

If the Republican media outlets out there handle this right and don't plunge into silliness, the Libby Verdict and the fallout from it could be the best thing to happen to everyone on our side of the aisle, minus Libby himself.

While we try and mind our P's and Q's, it doesn't take away from the fact that the legal ethics system has one more shiner to put ice on. We can't have two systems of justice anywhere, but it's pretty obvious that we do in Washington, D.C.