President Bush announced today that he's commuting I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence. Libby will still have to pay a $250,000 fine and serve two years probation, but will not serve any prison time.

President Bush announced this controversial action on a Friday so it would get less scrutiny.

Sorry, I was channeling my inner-lefty conspiracy theorist there for a moment.

I still would've preferred a pardon, and some sort of meaningless order directing Richard Armitage to pay Libby's fine.