Sentencing of Scooter Libby [THE FRED THOMPSON REPORT]

ABC Radio Networks ^ | June 6, 2007 | Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson

[Squidpup]

I think he has strong feelings regarding this!

[Mamzelle]

Amnesty for millions and millions of third-world criminals, but no loyalty returned for loyalty given. Bush. Priceless.

[Jeff Chandler]

The DOJ, in turn, promptly caved

Key phrase.

[pangaea6]

The only one to call for pardon of Libby. This man has a pair.

[PeterFinn]

Amnesty for millions and millions of third-world criminals, but no loyalty returned for loyalty given. Bush. Priceless.

What did you expect? He flamed every patriotic American last week when he said we were unpatriotic because we don't want 20 million illegal aliens in our country.

[SolidWood]

Thompson can pardon Libby in 2009.

[mnehring]

Did you see the step back in the debate last night when Wolf asked who would pardon Libby.. I believe it had to be 30 seconds or more before Rudy spoke up.. no one really had the balls to tackle this..

[jdub]

at least one other at the debate said they would pardon him, no question about it. Can’t remember who though.

[Jeff Chandler]

Having all this crashing down on the head of one man and his family, in a time when national security leaks are published regularly on the front pages of the newspapers without consequence

The DOJ hasn't the guts to punish national security leakers or the NYTimes using their leaks for enemy propaganda. They sure went after Scooter, though.

[Christian4Bush]

I think he has strong feelings regarding this!

Absolutely. And I have a strong feeling, too - that if this man's name is on the ballot around, say, November of next year, he will have my vote.

[LetsRok]

The judge should be impeached immediately and Fitzgerald brought up on charges similar to the Duke Rape Case prosecutor.

[Enduring Freedom]

i can honestly say that there is no man in america i have more respect for than fred thompson

if ever a man was right for the times, it would be president thompson

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[The Blitherer]

ping!

[California Patriot]

Outstanding. Fred is standing up for our people, and for justice. More than our president will do in this case, and not only in this case.

[shutterspeed]

Fred's disgust with the inner workings of what has become a nearly disfunction government is THE reason I will walk across hot coals to vote for this man. I heard him speak this way months ago and I said "Finally someone gets it". Below is a repeat of something I posted on another thread, but this all ties together in my mind. _________________________________________________________

Quoted from:
Star Power (Fred Thompson)
americanprowler.org ^ | 6/6/2007 | John H. Fund
"IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, what worries Thompson is that the sprawling, chaotic design of the federal government is undermining public confidence in its authority -- and even threatening the national security. He says one of the things that struck him most during his tenure as chairman of the Senate Government Oversight Committee was the pervasive lack of accountability in government, where no one pays any price for failure. When asked about President Bush's awarding the Medal of Freedom to outgoing CIA Director George Tenet after U.S. intelligence failures in Iraq became apparent, he shakes his head: "I just didn't understand that." The next president, according to Thompson, needs to exercise strong leadership "and get down in the weeds and fix a civil-service system that makes it too hard to hire good employees and too hard to fire bad ones." He doesn't offer specifics on what to do, but notes the "insanity" of the new Congress pushing for the unionization of Homeland Security employees. "Have we forgotten the lessons of 9/11?" he asks in wonderment. "Should we tie ourselves up in bureaucratic knots with the terrorist challenges we may have to face?"

This is the REAL problem in government! He gets it!

For the past two years I have worked as a federal contractor. I work within the Military Intelligence field. I came from the private sector where innovation and forward thinking is KEY to not only survival but success.

I approach my job today the same as I did when I ran my own business; agressively and focused on results

"The System", the bureauracracy however is concerned MOSTLY with it's own survival and doing as little as possible while spending as much money as possible. Some of the things I've seen - especially during a time of war - are simply flabbergasting. The Libs like to bad talk contractors; but I'm telling you now - I can count on one hand the number of Civil Service types who are worth a damn.

No sense of urgency; no desire for effieciency; a problem for every solution... oh - yeah and heaven forbid you should intterupt a holiday weekend.

Where Bush F'd up bigtime (new tone)was NOT cleaning house on day one. The Executive branch (Yes the DOD too) is hopelessly full of Deadwood simply counting their days to retirement. Here's a picture for you... just imagine our brave soldiers, putting thier lives on the line, totally dependent on CONUS support from folks really no different than the schlubs at the DMV or the Post Office
..."oh you have OBL in your sites... Oh, you're taking fire and need to knnow whether you can shoot or not?... take a number please...

I'm exaggerating to make the point; that "Civil Service" spirit of slack and entitlement is a poison killing our Government

It's not the sexy issue like Immigration,Runaway Entitlements, the Global WOT, or SCOTUS appointments; but it is the BIG issue underlying MOST of the current failures of government.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“The name’s Dalton.” (Jeff Healy in “Road House”)

[onedoug]

I heard his great reply to Hannity on Fox yesterday evening. This might be my guy.

Make sure you check out The Great God Debate.

[Jack Black]

Tancredo did in the debate, unambiguously. I believe several others, including Rudy said they would lean towards it.

[SE Mom]

Scooter..Fred Ping:)