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Well, Merry Christmas anyway...
1 posted on 12/24/2008 4:59:05 PM PST by meandog
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Gilda Radner as Roseanne Rosanna-Danna pic: “Never mind”


2 posted on 12/24/2008 5:00:51 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Our government is an edifice of artifice.)
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Meanwhile Ramos and Campeon rot. What is wrong with the President?


3 posted on 12/24/2008 5:04:35 PM PST by onedoug
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President Bush on Wednesday retracted one of the 19 presidential pardons he granted...

Good on ya, W.

Now, howzabout those two Border Agents?

4 posted on 12/24/2008 5:05:03 PM PST by OldSmaj (Death to islam. No to Hussein. BO stinks.)
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I wasn’t aware a pardon could be reversed.


5 posted on 12/24/2008 5:05:11 PM PST by no-s
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The sleaze who made contributions to get his pardon will now go to court to claim that a President who has granted a pardon has no right to withdraw that pardon. Having read a number of cases on the pardon power, going back to one that took place in New Jersey while the Constitutional Convention was taking place across the river, I believe the sleaze will win his case.

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7 posted on 12/24/2008 5:11:17 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Latest book: www.AmericasOwnersManual.com)
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Can this administration get nothing right? Who was supposed to vet the recipients before the pardon was granted?


10 posted on 12/24/2008 5:16:24 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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Evidently, there is a limited supply of pardons and one had to be saved for Bernie Madoff!


13 posted on 12/24/2008 5:22:47 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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Pardon Ramos and Compean, Mr.President.

How can he have Christmas with his family and not think of the young children these border agents have, who are missing their daddys tonight?

There is a very bad reason W won’t pardon them. Too close to Sutton? Likes drug runners? Like the Mexicans too much? Whatever the reason it isn’t a good one.

Add his unwillingness to pardon them, to the long list of grievances the prez has piled up in 8 years of not being a conservative (as advertised).


18 posted on 12/24/2008 5:43:20 PM PST by TheConservativeParty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why the ship was built." by The First Gal of AK)
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President Bush on Wednesday retracted one of the 19 presidential pardons he granted just before the Christmas holiday.

Well, maybe that leaves a space to pardon Ramos and Campean. Now that President Bush retracted one pardon, perhaps he should keep the count by issuing a pardon to civil servants with families being punished for doing their jobs.

Is this refusal by Bush to pardon genuine deserving patriots some kind of a Yale thing I wonder? The horrendous sentences are out of line with similar offenses in my opinion.

20 posted on 12/24/2008 5:57:05 PM PST by olezip
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Toussie, 36, was sentenced to five months in prison and a $10,000 fine on Sept. 22, 2003, as well as three years of supervised released conditioned on five months of home detention ...

sounds like he already got his "pardon" when he was sentenced.

He served his time..what's the point??

23 posted on 12/24/2008 6:07:35 PM PST by evad (.!.)
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Only $25,000? Bill Clinton got a $450,000 contribution for his Presidential library.


25 posted on 12/24/2008 6:09:21 PM PST by Retired Chemist
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so i guess the moral of the story is.. if you want a pardon don’t contribute and don’t have your family contribute any money to the people in power...

thats for all u seeking pardons...


27 posted on 12/24/2008 6:24:48 PM PST by outlawjake
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Issac is the son of prominent real estate developer Robert Toussie.

I wonder how much in campaign contributions the elder Toussie has given to the Bush family over the years. I suggest the conservative media get on this before the liberal media does.


29 posted on 12/24/2008 6:35:00 PM PST by Perchant
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When is a Presidential pardon final? Only when he leaves office?

On a brighter note, can we still rescind Obama’s election?


34 posted on 12/24/2008 6:41:22 PM PST by devere
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Jorge' forgotted he gots an R beside his name!

Ya gawta have a D to get away with it!

40 posted on 12/24/2008 8:06:04 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (2nd assistant bookeeper)
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...admitting that he falsified finances of prospective homebuyers seeking HUD mortgages.

That happened to my family back in the '60s. The dude got caught & FHA went back and looked at everyone's papers. The choice for us was move out & lose all equity (it was a sweat equity deal common at the time), or accept a new loan with a much higher payment. Ultimately we had to sell out & move down - the folks toughed it out for a couple of years but the $125 mortgage payment was just too much.

The crooked developer making false statements on behalf of buyers remains a part of the trouble with finance it seems. Our developer got $10,000 and ten years at club fed. It was his first and only development venture involving perhaps 25 homes. The dude in this story got a relative wrist slap considering the lesser jail time and value of money. And look at the fine - It seems to me at only ten grand the bulk of his illicit profit remains in his pocket. The only reason I can see he wants a pardon is so he can qualify for the licensing to continue what he had been doing before. I say no way.

42 posted on 12/25/2008 5:59:41 AM PST by Clinging Bitterly (Starve the beast.)
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