Here’s a loyal Cheney-ite who,it is said, took the hit for Dick, perjured himself,
was found guilty and sentenced accordingly. Also a Bush supporter, Scooter saw W commute his sentence, but without a pardon.
As a result, felon Libby has had his law license revoked, which could be a serious impediment to acquiring a big time career in his field.
So what’s in the cards?
Will a Blue Chip Corp, nevertheless offer him a high-paying job with, perhaps, a Platinum Parachute?
Will Scooter write a tell-all book?
Will Libby get an offer he can’t refuse from CheneyCo to stay away from writing for the rest of his life?
He’s been working for conservative think tanks since he left government, I imagine he can make enough $$ doing the think tank/lobbying/punditing thing that most high level ex-staffers do. I doubt he would’ve returned to lawyering even if he wasn’t disbarred.
The minute that Scooter starts talking to publishers, he’s going to wake up with a horse’s head in his bed. I think he can pretty much do whatever he wants, short of writing a book. Maybe he should take out a contract on whoever gave him that silly nickname.
I dunno, How did Sandy Berger and Bill Clinton do after they lost their licenses? Don’t remember seeing them in any soup lines. Clinton didn’t have to write a blow by blow expose’ on his time in orafice to survive.
I’d think you’d be impressed with Dubya’s pardon list given Clinton’s political pardons (described by Carter as disgraceful).
I’m actually more impressed Bush told Cheney to fug off about the Libby pardon. Happened about 7 years too late, but I have to give credit where it is due.
Actually Clinton did use his memoir money to pay his legal bills (about $8 million), buy his NY house, and settle his affairs so that he could keep and invest more of the speaking engagement fees. Berger did fairly well as a lobbyist for Chinese interests long before losing his license and probably was pretty taken care of by that. Clinton of course can make more for a few speaking engagements and books than Libby could make if he had a Power Point showing Cheney kicking orphans, so there were a lot more options to him.
Yes, but I’m sure he won’t cover the blue dress incident as that would be a hard thing for a publisher to swallow (it would also qualify as a two-fer).