I spend most of my time these days trying to ignore the insane direction that George W Bush and his enablers have taken this country for the past six years. Then the White House comes up with a strategy to push one of their failed agendas that screams out for the white coats. Eugene Robinson [...]

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They can’t spin it, they can’t excuse it, they can’t hide it. It’s a payoff for taking the fall for the big guys. And Bush’s very history spells it out.
In the six years that Bush was governor of Texas, he commuted a single death sentence and allowed 152 executions to proceed. He also pardoned 20 [...]

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People are going to be having fun with the convoluted logic of this step by President Bush right up until he is facing judgment himself.
In commuting Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr.’s 30-month prison sentence on Monday, President Bush drew on the same arguments about the federal sentencing system often made by defense lawyers — and routinely [...]

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Just when you thought they couldn’t get any more blatant at thumbing their noses at the law…
WASHINGTON — President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby today, sparing him from a 2 1/2 -year prison term that Bush said was excessive.
Bush’s move came hours after a federal appeals panel [...]

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This nation is so angry about Iraq that we sometimes forget what would be obvious if it was a four-alarm blaze in a nearby city. Some fires do have to burn, but leaving the scene isn’t an option. - David Ignatius

The “firehouse strategy” analogy would be great if it wasn’t for the fact that George [...]

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“This is a little bit of a nonissue,” Perino said at a briefing dominated by the issue. Cheney is not subject to the executive order, she said, “because the president gets to decide whether or not he should be treated separately, and he’s decided that he should.”
These guys really need to stop watching Fox…
Source: White [...]

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