I think I made the comment a while back when Harriet Miers (who??? exactly) was the then-Bush nominee for the Supreme Court, that getting a cushy job in the Bush Administration is apparently no harder than getting a gig at the Gap or at Banana Republic - your only qualification being that you gotta be one of Bush's pals.
Apparently the same holds true for getting out of a prison sentence that you actually deserve. Now that Bush has commuted the prison sentence of goodbuddy Scooter Libby, the Banana Republic comparison makes even more sense to me, both in terms of the blatant cronyism that seems to be the sole ticket for gaining entrance to this particular Banana Republic, and the actual original meaning of "banana republic"
(from wikipedia.org)
"Banana republic is a pejorative term for a small, often Latin American or Caribbean country that is politically unstable, dependent on limited agriculture, and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy and corrupt clique"
ETA: Paris Hilton served more jail time than Scooter Libby. I'm not sure I can think of a more depressing commentary on our times than that.
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