Come get your pardons while they're red hot

Agreed... that was petty partisan politics; the likes of which took several days to be seen again

 

The only pardons I hope happen are that of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean.

 

If any of the Abramoff scum gets a pardon I'm gonna puke. I think Milkin has done his penance. I wish there was a rule that a president couldn't issue a pardon for up for at least 8 years after a conviction.

 

Wait till after Election Day. It'll be a virtual roll call of cronies, criminals and accomplices. Probably a blanket one that starts with Cheney and goes all the way down to Lynndie England.

 

Remember, if he pardoned Scooter, he could be forced to testify before Congress. The pardon will be coming in mid-January.

 

It was an abuse of power when Clinton freed all of his cronies. And it would be if Bush did something similar. But he hasn't. So it hasn't been an abuse of power in eight years.

 

I guess the vice president's chief of staff doesn't count as a "crony." (And spare us the contention that there's a net-effect difference between a pardon and commuted sentence -- anyone playing that card forfeits his right to use the term "Clintonesque word parsing" in perpetuity.)

And, as has been pointed out, the Bush-hasn't-abused-pardons posts could make for some fun reading on the morning of Jan. 20. Or -- considering that there's precedence -- Christmas Eve, which brings us to ...



I dare any righty to find a Clinton "crony" pardon on the level of this (or on the level of the Libby commute, for that matter) -- all members of a presidential administration, some or all who could have potentially testified against the man who issued the pardons.

 

I wonder if he'll pardon Marc Rich.

Oh wait...

 

Thank you Lamar, for making the correct point.

 

i guess that's what you get for not reading the entire thread before posting.

 

Exactly.

I'm sure it will occur, but I'm not going to start bashing a guy for actions that I believe will take place.