Scooter Libby is going to jail

CNN reports that Scooter Libby must go to jail. The judge just ruled Libby cannot stay free while he appeals his case. That means that the issue of Bush pardoning Scooter is now ripe. Either Bush pardons Scooter now, or Scooter spends the rest of the Bush term, pending appeal, in jail. The GOP base won't stand for Scooter doing time, but how much more damage can Bush take, is Bush willing to take, to his approval ratings? So much for the Bush administration being a "beyond reproach" alternative to the Clinton administration.