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CNN: Conservatives Will Be 'Angry' Over Commutation, GOP Double Standard re: Clinton
http://newsbusters.org/ ^ | July 2, 2007 | Brent Baker

Posted on 07/02/2007 7:59:56 PM PDT by lowbridge

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To: PhilipFreneau

“For unknown reasons”

No, Bush said he didn’t want to argue with a jury verdict. In other words, he’s not goign to assert something that a jury found otherwise. Probably a wise way to handle it, even if it means accepting a bogus verdict. Had he argued the verdict, the liberals would be screaming bloody murder *and* rehashing the whole case... as it is now, the liberals are restricted to screaming bloody murder and gnashing their teeth at Bush’s ‘compassionate’ conservatism.


61 posted on 07/02/2007 10:22:57 PM PDT by WOSG (thank the Senators who voted "NO": 202-224-3121, 1-866-340-9281)
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To: lowbridge
“President Clinton was impeached for lying before a grand jury

Ah..so what...impeachment in the trial ...removal is the penalty... Clinton was not removed therefor received no penalty from impeachment ... now if you want to sent billy boy to the clink for a few years...let's talk

62 posted on 07/02/2007 10:31:46 PM PDT by tophat9000 (My 2008 grassroots Republican platform: Build the fence, enforce the laws, and win the damm WAR!)
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To: franksolich
One wonders where the ?mainstream? news media gets this idea.

From talking to each other. Bernie Goldberg's "Bias" at work. These fish swim in a liberal sea.

63 posted on 07/02/2007 10:32:11 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: sgtbono2002

Yeah. Let Fitzy spend 3 years on the stand trying to convince hostile people who care nothing for the truth, second guessing his thoughts, recollections, and motives.


64 posted on 07/02/2007 10:35:38 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: PhilipFreneau

And, just to get the left’s collective panties in a bunch, he could opine that as liberals, Fitz’s honesty and Russert’s honesty and memory are suspect as well.


65 posted on 07/02/2007 10:38:38 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: The_Reader_David

I wonder if Libby could sue Russert, saying that Russert lied in court, thereby costing Libby $250K. Burden of proof in civil court is preponderance of evidence.


66 posted on 07/02/2007 10:42:06 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: lowbridge

What the dimocrats are doing is making things better for Bush and Cheney. LOL!


67 posted on 07/02/2007 10:48:44 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m angry he didn’t get a full pardon.


68 posted on 07/02/2007 10:59:18 PM PDT by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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To: cripplecreek
I don't see why everyone so many of my fellow conservatives are getting so excited about this. So the crony of a RINO president doesn't have to spend 2.5 years in Club Fed. Big deal.

How exactly does this advance the conservative agenda?

Yeah, maybe there was an injustice, but at most it was a tiny one. Instead of a million dollar book deal plus 2.5 years in Club Fed he gets just the book deal. Big woop. I honestly don't understand why anyone other than Libby's family gives a fig.

69 posted on 07/02/2007 11:31:12 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: Dionysius

I agree, Plame’s covert status was expired for years, yet Libby gets hauled up for exposing some secret CIA agent? And the judge decided to keep this from the trial? Plame was a desk jockey that is why she didn’t have covert status anymore. And all this crap about lying is BS too, I wouldn’t be able to remember everybody and what I said years later either.


70 posted on 07/02/2007 11:37:27 PM PDT by WonkyTonky (My gun is safer than Ted Kennedy's car. Vote for Duncan Hunter 2008!!)
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To: highlander_UW

Yep, the comparison to Clinton’s impeachment is ridiculous. Clinton got impeached but not removed. IOW he was prosecuted but not punished. Same with Libby. In the end, Libby will also be prosecuted but not punished. To suggest, as the MSM types are trying to do, that Clinton’s treatment was somehow worse than Libby’s is disingenuous. They are basically getting equal treatment for comparable crimes.


71 posted on 07/03/2007 5:31:08 AM PDT by LadyNavyVet
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To: lowbridge

The fax from the DNC to the media must use the word “anger” quite a bit.


72 posted on 07/03/2007 5:32:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: lowbridge

Well at least GW did not pardon FALN terrorists or someone who was on the Top 10 FBI list and still a fugitive.


73 posted on 07/03/2007 5:33:02 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: lowbridge
Ha ha! Libby didn't remember a who he had spoken with years ago. There was no crime and if there was, the actual perp, Armitage, wasn't prosecuted. Libby was the fall guy.

Clinton pointed his finger in the camera and shook it and bald faced lied to the grand jury and he knew it. He is now a millionaire and faced no time at all.

74 posted on 07/03/2007 5:35:28 AM PDT by nativist (Weigh into them!)
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To: lowbridge

Gee..you would think that Libby was a BANK ROBBER (Susan McDougal), or a Puerto Rican TERRORIST (like the ones Clinton pardoned).


75 posted on 07/03/2007 5:39:00 AM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: CT
Yeah, I remember all that time Clinton spent in jail. What was it, 36 months?

I believe you're mistaken. Clinton didn't spend 36 months in jail, he rented 36 "Women in Prison" movies in a month.

76 posted on 07/03/2007 5:39:30 AM PDT by kevkrom ("Government is too important to leave up to the government" - Fred Dalton Thompson)
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To: kevkrom
I believe you're mistaken. Clinton didn't spend 36 months in jail, he rented 36 "Women in Prison" movies in a month.

There's 36?

77 posted on 07/03/2007 5:41:27 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Still Thinking

The guy needs to be prosecuted. Fitzgerald spent millions on this DNC scam.


78 posted on 07/03/2007 5:46:19 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (http://www.imwithfred.com/index.aspx)
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To: lowbridge

I’m no fan of GWB, but Libby got screwed. I’m glad his sentence was commuted.


79 posted on 07/03/2007 5:47:55 AM PDT by Junior_G
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To: cripplecreek

Was the toon found ‘Not guilty”? I thought it was ‘other terminology’, but my brain is not coming up with it.


80 posted on 07/03/2007 5:50:58 AM PDT by mathluv (Never Forget!)
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