Have this nice anklet instead

"It's good to be the king."
You know the quote, although the circumstances behind my use of it here is quite less funny than Mel Brooks feeling up some buxom French lass in History of the World, Part II. Even the quote doesn't apply directly. Let's change it a bit, yes?
It's good to be a friend of the king.
As you've already heard, I'm sure, our illustrious president has commuted the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, effectively making it okay to commit treason against an agent of the country, so long as you did it with the knowledge of the White House, and to further the president's agenda. The abbreviated elements of the case: Libby was accused of leaking the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame to a newspaper in retribution for her husband's research and questioning of WMDs in Africa or something; he was convicted of lying and obstructing justice in a probe into the leak her identity; was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail, two years probation and fined $250,000; and was allowed to walk away from prison.
According to the AP: Bush abruptly commuted Libby's prison sentence — an unusual step, given that it had not yet begun — five hours after a federal appeals court panel ruled that Libby could not delay his prison term. Bush left intact the sentence of two years probation and a $250,000 fine, citing a need for some accountability. In his first public comments on the matter on Tuesday, Bush defended his rationale. "I felt like the jury verdict ought to stand, and I felt like some of the punishments that the judge determined were adequate should stand," Bush said. "But I felt like the 30-month sentencing was severe."
Thirty months in jail is too severe for the president whose home state of Texas is so in love with the death penalty? What part of a minimum-security summer camp for 30 months is so awful? If the man was convicted in a court of law, then he should have to pay the penance, all the penance, for his crimes.