Pants Berger plans his vaca; Libby to jail – UPDATED

A good illustration in incongruity.

One man misremembers and gets a quarter-million dollar fine and thirty months. One steals and destroys classified documents and…well, he’s probably at Martha’s Vineyard or soon will be.

President Bush should probably pardon Scooter Libby.

The press and the left got a third tier scalp – at astonishing cost to themselves – and everyone involved should be embarrassed by this denouement.

UPDATE:Captain’s Quarter’s blog’s Ed Morrissey says a Libby pardon would be okay with him, but he finds the Berger/Libby comparisons a bit reckless:

A jury of Americans found Libby guilty of the charges against him. The sentencing is commensurate with the convictions. If Libby obstructed justice and perjured himself, which the jury found that he did, then he should be punished for it. If Berger got off scot-free, then blame the DoJ under George Bush and Alberto Gonzales, but it doesn’t give Libby a pass on lawbreaking.

Might have a point, there.

Tom Maguire has lots of questions:

…what does Bush do next? Does Dick Cheney still have any sway in this Administration, and how hard will he push for a Libby pardon? Will a Libby pardon be offered as an olive branch to the righties who are furious with Bush over immigration? Would such an olive branch be accepted by a newly-reconciled right, or would it be used to smack Bush forcefully about the head and shoulders?