Bush Rejected Flurry of Requests for Clemency

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: techs
I never thought Libby would get a pardon. The reason is once he did then he could be called to testify under oath, and once pardoned could not take the 5th since he could no longer incriminate himself. So he would either have to answer truthfully or go to jail for refusing to testify.
And you can bet a Libby on the stand who was compelled to give testimony could have led a number of places that would have been very interesting.
In fact, by accepting the slap on the wrist he can now protect the Bushies and Cheneys interests with impunity.

Thats probably as close to the truth as we will ever get

 

[winnar111]

Originally posted by: Thump553
Just following along on his record of 131 executions as governor of Texas.

BTW, is that Pollard spy still doing hard time? Last I heard he was locked up in the supermax prison (concrete bunk, no mattress) and Israel was complaining about that.

Sounds like a proud record of enforcing justice 131 times.

 

[retrospooty]

Originally posted by: winnar111
I will miss this man of honor.

Well, there we have it... This explains everything.

You are officially retarded... Er... Sorry. Mentally challenged.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Originally posted by: winnar111I will miss this man of honor.

This is a direct insult to everyone in the armed forces.

He had no honor, he even admitted so himself at several occasions.

 

[bozack]

good for him, shame the same thing cannot be said about Obama's appointments or Chicago politicians.

 

[retrospooty]

Originally posted by: bozack
good for him, shame the same thing cannot be said about Obama's appointments or Chicago politicians.

You also cant say Obama took a thriving , and prosperous economy and drove it into the dirt. Same for torture, warrantless wiretaps, etc etc... Do you seriously want to compare the 2 ? Bush has 8 years of utter failure.

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: retrospooty

Originally posted by: bozack
good for him, shame the same thing cannot be said about Obama's appointments or Chicago politicians.

You also cant say Obama took a thriving , and prosperous economy and drove it into the dirt. Same for torture, warrantless wiretaps, etc etc... Do you seriously want to compare the 2 ? Bush has 8 years of utter failure.

econ fail = barney frank and his ilk...wiretaps are awesome in my book

 

[UberNeuman]

Originally posted by: bozack

Originally posted by: retrospooty

Originally posted by: bozack
good for him, shame the same thing cannot be said about Obama's appointments or Chicago politicians.

You also cant say Obama took a thriving , and prosperous economy and drove it into the dirt. Same for torture, warrantless wiretaps, etc etc... Do you seriously want to compare the 2 ? Bush has 8 years of utter failure.

econ fail = barney frank and his ilk...wiretaps are awesome in my book

That would be a comic book, of course.....

 

[Jhhnn]

GWB did remain true to form. Of all modern presidents, his parsimony was exceeded only by his father-

http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/actions_administration.htm

So much for compassionate conservatism...

The article pooh-poohed Libby's clemency, saying that Bush "shortened" his sentence...

Yeh, to nothing, zero, zip, nada... doesn't get any shorter than that... Scooter probably would have rolled over his first day behind bars, anyway, spilled the beans, fingered the rest of the gang... G Gordon Liddy he ain't...

I'm of the opinion that the much ballyhooed idea of pre-emptive pardons for Bush Admin figures was rejected by Bush because he didn't acknowledge that he or his minions had ever done anything wrong. It would also be a capitulation wrt the whole concept of the Unitary Executive- being Prez makes him right, no matter what...

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: winnar111 I will miss this man of honor.

lol

 

[First]

Originally posted by: winnar111
fart fart fart.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: bozack
good for him, shame the same thing cannot be said about Obama's appointments or Chicago politicians.

What a bizarre non sequitur. This is entirely irrelevant to the topic. You and the OP are peas in a retarded pod.

GWB is perhaps THE most professionally incompetent President in American history and his policies have wrought enormous damage on this country and its economy and international standing. The fact that he was tight-fisted with pardons at the end is admirable but relatively trivial in the larger scheme of things IMO.

 

[retrospooty]

Originally posted by: bozack

Originally posted by: retrospooty

Originally posted by: bozack
good for him, shame the same thing cannot be said about Obama's appointments or Chicago politicians.

You also cant say Obama took a thriving , and prosperous economy and drove it into the dirt. Same for torture, warrantless wiretaps, etc etc... Do you seriously want to compare the 2 ? Bush has 8 years of utter failure.

econ fail = barney frank and his ilk...wiretaps are awesome in my book

Oh, right... Its all the liberals fault. /rollseyes . Barney Frank, didnt single handedly destroy our economy. He certainly didnt help, and are partly responsible, but this ship sank, and the captain watched it all go down. Go ahead, you want to simply blame Barney Frank, and ignore that Bush and the reps had total control of house, and senate for the past 14 years up until 2007, and they have the oval office for the past 8 up until last week. But it was all Barney. Your partisanship is showing. If you cant at least see what a piss poor job Bush and the reps did while in charge you are blind, and i am glad your kind lost the election.

 

[dbk]

I'm shocked Libby didn't get a pardon. He can't practice law anymore right?

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: Genx87
This is funny because the predictions last summer were Bush was going to blow away the record book on granting pardons.

I think I already posted a very rare compliment for Bush on the pardons he did not grant.

And I"ll say I had thought it likely he'd give out a lot of bad ones, like Reagan/Bush 41 did.