Action Items

by digby

Here are a couple of things for you to do before the end of the day:

From Barbara Boxer:

There may be no single person who has done more for our environment than Al Gore. That’s why I’m so pleased that Vice President Gore has accepted my invitation to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on March 21st! And I want you to help me give him the warmest welcome possible.

Please sign my online thank you card to Al Gore now — so I can personally deliver it to him when he comes to testify later this month!

Here’s one from Dick Durbin:

Don’t Pardon Scooter Libby!

Recently, Lewis “Scooter” Libby was found guilty of obstructing justice and lying under oath during an investigation of the Administration’s role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Now, some are saying that the White House is considering pardoning Scooter Libby for his role in this mess. That would be a terrible decision, and I hope you’ll join me in speaking out against it.

Tell President Bush to respect the findings of the jury — Don’t Pardon Scooter Libby!

Indeed.

(Matthews, by the way, had the juror back this afternoon, saying that she thinks it’s fine if Bush pardons Libby. Denis Connor pretty much said the same thing here. Michael Smerconish rightly pointed out that they are giving Bush exactly the cover he needs to pardon Libby. It occurs to me that all that weepy nonsense from Wells wasn’t for the trial after all, but rather to build this kind of sympathy for the aftermath.)

Check out this fine decision by PoliticsTV (the fine folks who brought you the Jane and Marcy show during the Libby trial) to not prostitute themselves for FOX. Very nicely done.

Finally, if you overate at lunch and feel the need to purge, you might want to head over to TBOGG’s place to watch this excruciating Michele Malkin video, which I assume is indicative of the kind of “humor” she will be sharing with the FOX audience on her new program “It’s Out There.” Let’s just say that Stephen Colbert doesn’t have anything to worry about. (For that matter, the freshman improv class at Santa Monica High doesn’t have anything to worry about.)

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