Anyone Surprised?

So good ol' President Bush commuted Scooter's sentence. He wont serve any time for the crime he was convicted for, but instead will pay a fine of $250,000.

Bush said that he thought 30 months (Scooter's sentence) was "excessive" due in part to the fact (he believes) that some "allegations never presented to the jury"

I guess it could have been more annoying, he could have given him a pardon right off the bat. But let's face, it either way Scooter wont see a change in his life, or life style so all is well for Bush and Scooter.

The suspicious side of me wants to know if Scooter himself will actually pay the fine or if his bank account will magically get a deposit from unknown sources right before he needs to pay.

AND...the fine print is...

commutation does nothing to prevent Libby from appealing his conviction. And if the appeal fails or is still in process at the end of Bush's term, there is nothing to prevent the President from granting Libby a full pardon before he leaves office.

So I that translates to Scooter will get the pardon sometime before Bush leaves office.

A part of me also thinks maybe we should have saved the money and not done all this, I mean of course we couldn't really not, but all that money, tax money, spent for a trial that Bush ends of negating in the end. Makes you want to say "why bother".