Posted on 07/04/2007 7:22:39 AM PDT by lowbridge
"noisy fallout, didn't seem to satisfy anyone, the President was unapologetic today, despite criticism from all sides, reaction has been immediate and intense, Democratic National Committee posted a Web ad slamming the President, President's conservative base was not happy either, hard accusation to shake."
Just stick the name "Bush" in between all those words, and voila, you have a news story.
ABC couldnt find people in favor of the commutation? I know I can. Besides which, if they had to compare the Libby case to the plight of a Drug dealer, how about comparing it to Bill Clintons pardon of Dan Lasater and his brother Roger? Or does that make too much sense?
Mind-blowing, to say the least.
What was the name of Hillary’s law partner who fell on his sword for them? Was he pardoned?
“panic over possible pardon”
yeah. the liberals/communists are in a panic because a main part of their revolution schedule has been set back. (why didn’t they panic when bill and hillary redefined the word “is”, and when they pardoned a bunch of drug dealers and terrorists?)
Wasn’t that Webb whatever?
Web Hubbell: No pardon.
“President’s conservative base was not happy either”
My question is why couldn’t Libby get a sweetheart deal like Sandy Berger did? This all could have been avoided if Bush had properly cleaned the Clinton people out of the Justice Deparment at the start. The firing of only 8 U.S. Attorney’s wasn’t nearly enough-he should have replaced them all like Clinton did.
Hubbell. But there was Susan McDougal who fell on her sword for Bill and he pardoned her at the end of his term.
Perhaps because President Bush does not see the Executive Branch as a Dictatorship and respects the Rule of Law. Unlike PravdABDNC or the co-clintons.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Only the liberals are panicing. What is wrong with people? We should be shocked.... but can’t get past hot dogs and fireworks:’)
If anyone should be pardoned it should be those border patrol agents who were railroaded into prison for shooting a drug dealer in the ass. Give me a break, what a miserable injustice was that, But GW shows no compassion for them at all.
The biggest problem with the trumped-up Libby case was that it distracted Patrick Fitzgerald (U. S. Attorney for Northern Illinois) from investigating Democrat corruption here in Illinois. So we’re still stuck with Daley, Blago, Durbin and Obama, etc.
Still hard for me to believe that Hillary would comment on this in Iowa while pardon master Bill was on stage.
To appease the left-wing media, Hillary and the rest of the DumocRATs, Bush should pardon Clinton.
He did make arrangement with Ken Starr that left him with no law licence, so as a favour to the former President and those howling so loudly in his party and in the DemocRAT favouring press, Bush should pardon Clinton. That would be a good laugh.
I almost forgot about the Illinois political machine that makes up new voting rules every time a Democratic felon has to resign to make sure only a Democratic “felon to be” gets elected to fill the seat.
Has anyone yet interviewed Hugh Rodham?
A master on the subject of the criteria for earning Presidential pardons and for money, would make a splendid media whore.
And surely, her thighness Ms Rodham-Clinton and her rogue husband will bite their tongues on this issue?
Webb Hubbell- former AG.
When Hillary Clinton spoke out against President Bush’s pardon of Libby - “This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.” - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. She needed to remember this number....
-396-
Bill Clinton pardoned more people than George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford. Clinton pardoned 396 people with offenses that included cocaine distribution, embezzlement, bank robbery, and tax evasion among other crimes. http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm
It was actually the Clinton administration where - “cronyism and ideology trumped competence and justice.”
No doubt Hillary will pardon the same if she gets back into the White House.
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