Posted on 07/08/2007 1:38:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With supporters running away from him -- on his immigration policy, on Iraq -- with his popularity plummeting, as Republican politicians seek safe harbor, with critics sniping, there are qualities to admire about President Bush.
Almost alone, stubbornly, he stands with our allies, including Israel, refusing to back down from Islamic terrorists working American public opinion in Iraq. He continues to pressure Iran on its pursuit of an Islamic theocratic nuclear nightmare in the Middle East.
He stands for life, opposed to the popular drumbeat from those who would use some human lives to benefit other, more powerful lives through embryonic stem-cell research. The president understands the terrible effect such utilitarian rendering of life would have on future generations.
And he stands against those who babble that "government can't afford a tax cut," a mantra which, if the Founding Fathers arrived in a time machine, would cause them to apply their canes vigorously to the behinds of the babblers.
That said, the president did something this week that I find appalling, and the celebration that ensued among conservative Republicans afterward was even more appalling.
It involves the rule of law. Conservatives were once quite conversant with the phrase while applying it to Democratic presidential stains on a blue dress. Lately though, many have willed themselves to forget, rather than look in the mirror and see their own eyes staring, searching for something irretrievably lost when they abandoned principle for party loyalty.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
It’s convenient to forget that there was no underlying crime in the first place.
But let’s not let that get in the way of our Sunday obligation to fill a column, right John?
Bush made the mistake of some half-baked approach here. He should have outright pardoned him and he wouldn’t have taken any more flack that he has for commuting the sentence.
This reporter has hoisted himself by his own petard.
“During the investigation, they posed for the cover of the magazine Vanity Fair, Plame in her big Jackie O sunglasses and a silk scarf, Wilson with a jaunty expression on his tired diplomat’s face. It was a photo spread reeking of self-promotion and carnivorous political opportunity, but not virtue and not honor.”
IIRC, they did this before the investigation.
“Libby’s conviction was the one faint glimmer of accountability for White House efforts to manipulate intelligence and silence critics of the Iraq War,” Reid was quoted as saying. “Now, even that small bit of justice has been undone.”
Well, it didn’t silence any critics of the war, nor manipulate intelligence. The person that did the crime, of alledgedly revealing Valerie’s status, was discovered by counsel, but has never been questioned.
How is that justice?
The gist of the article is “yeah, lying, stealing, raping isn’t all that bad when you consider the enormity of Libby not remembering what day someone said something to him on the phone. That should be one of the ten commandments, from now on. Huh?
Let’s all keep in mind that there’re two huge differences between Scooter Libby and the hordes that Slick Willie pardoned:
A) Clinton actually pardoned those he pardoned, not just freeing them, but restoring all their civil rights; and
B) Those Clinton pardoned had actually committed crimes.
And don’t forget that in almost all of Klintoon’s pardons a quid pro quo was extracted, whether by cash “donations” or by Puerto Rican votes for Hitlery in the 2000 NY Senatorial, or in one case by Susan MacDougal keeping her mouth shut about Clinton criminality in the Whitewater case. I don’t know what he got out of his brother’s pardon unless it was some high-grade cocaine.
All I am hearing (from conservatives) is it is about damm time Bush did something right.
But once again they allowed the stupid media to dominate the discussion by not listing Clintoons pardons of murderers, cocaine dealers, and tax frauds.
It’s just a matter of time before there are more political prisoners in the US than in China.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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