I am not at all confident that Bush will issue any pardons to people in his administration.
There’s something going on with Bush. For eight years Bush sat there like a punching bag, never having the guts to stand up and defend himself as lie after lie from the Democrats and their newsrooms went unanswered. Bush’s unwillingness to stand up and spit in their faces was an eight-year slap in the face to his bewildered supporters, including me. Maybe a psychiatrist could figure it out.
Who knows? Maybe Dubya gets some kind of perverse thrill out of being a punching bag for the Democrats. If that’s the case, then he may not want it to end on January 20th. Sure, it would be sick for him to leave his loyal admistration colleagues twisting in the wind like that, but there’s a history: The Haditha Marines and their families fought a rogue prosecution by an America-hating JAG contingent for two years(!), and although one-by-one they have been completely exonerated, two Marines are STILL twisting.
Bush could have ended that disgraceful fiasco with a phone call long ago, but instead let the nightmare go on for those heroic combat veterans and their families.
So I guess we’ll see if he does the decent thing and assures that his people can go home with some peace of mind on January 20th by ordering “pre-emptive” pardons for all of them, or if he would rather just throw them under the Democrat bus, just for kicks.
My feeling, exactly. It seemed that he was very reluctant to pardon Libby and then the pardon was as minimal as possible.
The worst part is that Nadler will be able tell his voters, "See what I did. I stopped Bush from making pardons."
Pres. Bush needs to come out with all barrels blazing before Jan. 20 — he needs to give a major speech which thoroughly refutes the many vicious slanders that have been directed toward him, VP Cheney, and many others in his admin.
Then he needs to announce that due to the unparalleled viciousness and dishonesty in the media, the Congress, and the Democrap Party, he will issue pre-emptive pardons to everyone in his admin. Then he needs to tell the Mediascum and Demagogues to go F### themselves.
I would be happy if he did this on Jan. 19 and allowed the media fury to erupt, but then they would have to control themselves if they want to enjoy their celebration of the Obamanation on Jan. 20.
Of course, I have no confidence that Pres. Bush will finally stand up for himself and his admin. colleagues like this, but that is what he should do if he doesn’t want Democrap “investigations” and threats of prosecution to hang over hundreds of people who loyally served him and the country in the WOT, etc.