By GottaLaff
Slimy and Slimier:
In a must-read piece, Time looks at the final days of the Bush administration when Vice President Dick Cheney "had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering" President Bush to pardon his former chief of staff, Scooter Libby.
"These last hours represent a climactic chapter in the mysterious and mostly opaque relationship at the center of a tumultuous period in American history. It reveals how one question -- whether to grant a presidential pardon to a top vice-presidential aide -- strained the bonds between Bush and his deputy and closest counselor. It reveals a gap in the two men's views of crime and punishment. And in a broader way, it uncovers a fundamental difference in how the two men regarded the legacy of the Bush years. As a Cheney confidant puts it, the Vice President believed he and the President could claim the war on terrorism as his greatest legacy only if they defended at all costs the men and women who fought in the trenches. When it came to Libby, Bush felt he had done enough."
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