They are all just a bunch of crooks. We no longer have a presidential administration, just a crime syndicate.
Gee, the law is only for the little people in this country after all.
Hey, but a blowjob is worth impeaching someone for.
Seriously, I never want to hear a Republican claim they are for “law and order” ever again.
Bush Commutes Libby’s Prison Sentence – New York Times
President Bush said today that he had used his power of clemency to commute the 30-month sentence for I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, who was convicted of perjury in March and was due to begin serving his time within weeks. The action, announced just hours after a federal appeals court denied Mr. Libby’s request to allow him to remain free while his case is on appeal, spares Mr. Libby his prison term, but it does not excuse him from stiff fines or probation. In a statement issued early this evening announcing his decision, Mr. Bush said he had listened to both critics and defenders of Mr. Libby, who was convicted of four felony counts for lying during a C.I.A. leak investigation.“I respect the jury’s verdict,” Mr. Bush said. “But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend 30 months in prison.”
Gosh, but people who whined about their death sentence couldn’t be spared, huh, Dubya?
In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, a number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. “Did you meet with any of them?” I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. “No, I didn’t meet with any of them”, he snaps, as though I’ve just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. “I didn’t meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?'” “What was her answer?” I wonder. “‘Please,'” Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, “‘don’t kill me.'” I must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel — because he immediately stops smirking.
“Justice” is only for the little folk to Dubya.
Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today. President Bush has just sent exactly the wrong signal to the country and the world. In George Bush’s America, it is apparently okay to misuse intelligence for political gain, mislead prosecutors and lie to the FBI. George Bush and his cronies think they are above the law and the rest of us live with the consequences. The cause of equal justice in America took a serious blow today.”
Thanks, Mr. Edwards. You just earned a contribution for the day.
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I gave to Wes Clark. And I would like to point out that rapper L’li Kim didn’t get commuted and she did commit perjury. But with the croud she runs with death was the alternative. She did get a Rolls from someone as payment for her time in jail. AKON is a known convict and rapper. In some circles time in jail is routine.
I’m liking Edwards (actually, both of the Edwards) more and more all the time.
First Prez gets someone to do something illegal for him [and I say having associates of such ilk, to whom “loyalty” is more important than being honest and upright says a lot about both principal and acolyte], then bails him out when he gets caught. That is what power is all about, I guess.
It’s all a Bush/Cheney Crime Family scam. No jail time, but no pardon so the case continues in appeals court and Congress cannot compel Libby to testify regarding anything about the case. Bush will pardon him sometime after the 2008 elections.
Might as well put the Mafia Dons in charge.