The "Sadness" of a White House indictment

Let's have a moment of false silence for Lewis "Scooter" Libby, our Veeps Chief of Staff, who was indicted today on 5 counts for his involvement in the CIA leak case.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/28/leak.probe/index.html

As you can see, "Scooter" says it's a "sad day" for him. I'm curious as to what we're supposed to be sad for him about. Are we supposed to shed tears for him and his alleged spilling of the proverbial espionage beans and allegedly lying repeatedly about it under oath? Allegedly destroying the livelihood of a woman whose husband didn't pick the correct Saddamese yellowcake door to open in Niger?

Is this Hurricane Katrina-level sadness? Is this Six Feet Under sad? Is this even 50-cent "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" sad?

I understand "confidence that I'll be totally exonerated." I understand "I'm not walking well lately because I'm on crutches." I understand "I never liked to be called Scooter."

Sad, this is not. If Scooter was walking around spreading heaven's dust over the poor of the nation, wiping the froth off Cheney's jowls, petting his boss' head and teaching him Jesus' inclination toward forgiving his enemies, insisting Joe Wilson's wife was off-limits, okay, this whole thing might be cause for a little...and I mean a little, melancholy.

But I'm assuming Scooter doesn't drive one and if he did, it's probably be the only two-wheel Hummer moped and it'd probably take eight parking spaces, not unlike his giant Virginian house and there would be, oh, about several billion sadder sights that Lewis "Scooter" Libby getting indicted today. And yet, our president, vice-president and others couldn't stop calling October 28th, National Scooter Indictment Day, a "sad day," like 9-11, Dec. 7, 1941, the Day the Music Died, and other such topics of classic folks songs about Chevys and levees (oh, didn't mean to mention that and disturb your dinner, Mike Brown, sorry?).

I'm frightened to think of what another Terms of Endearment-level tearjerker like Karl Rove's indictment would bring. A War Against Indictments?

Sad.