I'm beginning to think Clinton should pardon himself and be done with this whole thing.
Please Patricia, if you can, let go of your irrational attachment to Bill Clinton for one moment and think about the precedent this would establish. The President's power to grant pardons is virtually unlimited. That would mean that if he did this, then he or any future president could, for instance:
Have every Congressional member of the opposing party shot, then pardon himself.
Hire a private army and keep the Presidency for the rest of his life, then pardon himself.
Have every citizen who criticizes him arrested (or shot), then pardon himself.
Nullify the Constitution, then pardon himself.
Do absolutely ANYTHING he wants, then pardon himself.
Fortunately, setting aside both my horror at the notion of this new level of presidential dictatorship, and my sincere wish that you and the others who side with you could get an opportunity to live under the totalitarianism that such a precedent would establish; according to the Constitution, the only thing that the President can not pardon is impeachment. Impeachment will, hopefully, unless you Clinton partisans gut the process, remain as our final recourse to remove a criminal from the highest office in the land.
-BLT
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