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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (760795)	4/2/2007 12:48:07 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 769670

And now for the important news .... By Argus Hamilton jewishworldreview.com \| The Tudors premiered on last Sunday tonight starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII. He invented a brand-new religion just so he could divorce his wife and marry his mistress. Today the number-one official in that church is Rudy Giuliani. George Steinbrenner's daughter divorced husband Steve Swindal due to his drunk driving arrest. That one night out cost him the New York Yankees. The good news is the invasion of Iraq is no longer the worst decision ever made by a baseball executive. The Weather Channel said sixty tornadoes hit the Great Plains Friday while high pollen counts plagued the South. It's awful. The weather is so foul that people are being forced to talk about college basketball in order to start a polite conversation. Los Angeles high school students staged a mass walkout to join an amnesty march for illegal aliens. The high schools are surrounded by fifteen-foot-tall chain link fences. The students didn't have any more trouble getting out than they did getting in. White House aide Karl Rove brought down the house at the correspondents' dinner Wednesday when he performed a rap song as MC Rove. The number was awkward from the start. He asked for a downbeat and the deejay read him the president's approval rating. Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the White House Friday they must deal with oversight from a Democratic Congress. It won't work. The White House won't let others just march into the capital and force a new form of government on everybody. Hillary Clinton was lampooned on the cartoon show South Park on Comedy Central Thursday. They made fun of her fake Southern accent and her sex life. It would have been the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to her if she had married better. Connecticut police arrested a man who claimed to be Dick Cheney after a high-speed chase on Tuesday. The suspect was shocked with a stun gun by officers and taken to a psychiatric ward. Only a lunatic would want to be in Dick Cheney's shoes right now. The Washington Post reported Thursday that Saudi King Abdullah canceled plans to come to the White House to dine with President Bush. There had to be hurt feelings. Abdullah is such a close friend of his father that President Bush calls him Uncle King. jewishworldreview.com

To: calgal who wrote (760795)	4/3/2007 1:03:00 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The right thing to do By Jack Kemp Tuesday, April 3, 2007 "I would like him to get one (a pardon)." "We didn't vote to put him away." "I don't want him to go to jail." Ann Redington, juror on Libby trial, on "Hardball", March 7 - - - Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby walks past a line of photographers as he prepares to give a news conference outside federal court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, after the jury reached its guilty verdict in Libby's perjury trial. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Ann Redington, a juror in the I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby trial has weighed in for a pardon for Libby. Another juror, Denis Collins, expressed similar sentiments when he was interviewed by friend and liberal columnist Maureen Dowd. "I asked him how he would feel if W. pardons Scooter," Dowd wrote, "'I would really not care,' he replied." If even two jurors are endorsing a pardon, the president should not hesitate to take them up on their recommendation and pardon Libby immediately. It's the right thing to do and it's the right thing to do now - anything less makes a travesty of our system of justice. As columnist Mark Steyn said about Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's closing argument: "When a prosecutor speaks about 'a cloud over the vice president's office' and 'a cloud over the White House,' he is speaking politically." The criminalization of this political fight should end. Democrat super lawyer David Boies has joined the bipartisan chorus of those saying that Fitzgerald never should have prosecuted Libby when there was no underlying criminal violation at issue. Presidents of both parties have used the pardon power to grant clemency to former government officials who were prosecuted - most often by independent counsels - for conduct that most likely would not have been criminalized but for political considerations. President Bush can look to the history of both his father and President Bill Clinton for examples of similar pardons. When President George H.W. Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger and a number of other individuals in connection with Iran-Contra matters, he wrote: "The prosecutions of the individuals I am pardoning represent what I believe is a profoundly troubling development in the political and legal climate of our country: the criminalization of policy differences. These differences should be addressed in the political arena, without the Damocles sword of criminality hanging over the heads of some of the combatants. The proper target is the President, not his subordinates; the proper forum is the voting booth, not the courtroom. In recent years, the use of criminal processes in policy disputes has become all too common. It is my hope that the action I am taking today will begin to restore these disputes to the battleground where they properly belong." Similarly, President Clinton pardoned his CIA director, John Deutsch. The pardon of Deutch spared the former CIA director any criminal charges for mishandling secret information on his home computer. Deutch, had resigned in 1996 and had his security clearance stripped. He had been considering a deal with the Justice Department in which he would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of keeping classified data on home computers when President Clinton provided a pardon. President Clinton pardoned each and every person convicted of anything in the investigation of former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy by independent counsel Donald Smaltz. Those persons included Tyson Foods official Archie Schaffer, whose conviction was pending on appeal at the time of the pardon. These pardons didn't go through the "normal" process at the Justice Department. In fact President Clinton had 47 pardons that did not go through the Justice Department process. townhall.com