Now, That's Rich

By Zamboni

Dick Cheney is mad, and we cats think we know whom to thank: Our boy, Bill Clinton.

The Worst Person Who Ever Lived If Indeed He Were a Person apparently spent his last weeks in office relentlessly lobbying George W. Bush to pardon the repellent I. Lewis Libby for his 2007 perjury and obstruction conviction. (We refuse to call anyone who contributed to a CIA agent's blown cover by that ridiculous nickname, "Scooter.")

It wasn't enough that Libby's sentence was commuted. No, Cheney wanted a full pardon. But Bush wasn't in the mood.

Why? According to Kenneth Adelman, “Bush got it in his head that he did not want to leave office like Clinton did." That is, he didn't want to have a controversial pardon like Clinton's of Marc Rich hanging over his already tarnished legacy.

Our take on all this? Yippee! It appears that all the Rich sturm-und-drang was finally worth it.