*IF* Bush loses, who will he pardon on his way out? Ken Lay?

[Lex]

Any ideas?


(I say *If* because I don't want to mess with our karma.)

[aden_nak]

1. Kenny Boy is a shoe-in. In fact. . .

If Bush loses, look for Ken Lay to take a plea bargain, no matter how bad a deal, just to have his trial over with BEFORE Bush is out of office.

[Flubadubya]

2. You bet... Ken Lay!

First and foremost on his list.

Fuggetaboutit Martha, sorry!

[noonwitch]

3. Scooter Libby and Dick Cheney

Can he pardon himself?

[Thrill]

4. He will pardon the DC Snipers

.

[Hawkeye-X]

5. Well, Congress will override the Presidential pardon

for criminals that has screwed America. In fact, I would recommend that a law passed for those incumbents are defeated in an election will NOT allow that said defeated incumbents to pardon anybody.

Hawkeye-X

[BOSSHOG]

6. A posthumous pardon

for Timothy McVeigh (a member of the bush base if anyone ever was).

[NV Whino]

7. You have to be convicted to be pardoned

At last look, Kenny Boy's trial(s) won't even happen until Fall of 2005.

[BOSSHOG]

9. The same catch-22 exists for

Limbaugh. He'll drag his feet on his legal matters and jeb will be out of office when the drug addict is convicted.

[flyingfysh]

12. not true

Ford pardoned Nixon before he faced formal criminal charges.

[NV Whino]

21. Argh!

I stand corrected. Pardon me.

With that in mind, W will mass pardon everybody.

[LoverOfLiberty]

14. How can this be

Didn't Ford pardon Nixon?

[AndyTiedye]

17. Nixon Got a Pre-emptive Pardon from Ford

Expect blanket pardons for all the repub criminals after the election,
for all crimes they may have committed, or will commit in the future....

[Lex]

19. No you DON'T.

That's just not true.

Look at all those people Bush I pardoned that weren't convicted yet.

Please.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Lindy Englund fer sure....

AND the future incarceration of Tom Delay...

[gratuitous]

10. Pick up a White House directory

And just run down the list. He'll even pardon himself, if history is any indicator. Remember, his daddy pardoned the Iran/contra folks who were about to go on trial in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 1992, just before he left office. Cap Weinberger, Eliot Abrams, and the rest of the gang that would have put the lie to Poppy's infamous assertion that he was "out of the loop" on the arms for hostages deal.

And because the executive power to pardon is absolute, there won't be a thing anyone can do about it.

By the way, I think the pardon power should be absolute if the executive is to have it. And it should be (and probably will be in the future if my prediction holds true) a fit subject for evaluating candidates for the presidency: Not only "do you want this man to have his finger on the button," but also "do you trust this man to wield the power of the pardon".

[Lex]

11. I just thought of this: ROBERT NOVAK -- he'll pardon him

dontcha think?

[undercover_brother]

16. that would be self preservation

[flyingfysh]

13. whoever outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. First and foremost, himself

The chimp will protect himself at all costs.

[ComerPerro]

18. He won't have to

If he loses, he will stir up such an international shitstorm that the country won't possibly be able to let Kerry take office.

And, even if Kerry gets to take office, he will be impeached immediately for all the shit Bush did before leaving the White House.

[Lex]

20. Newspaper Frontpage of when Bush I pardoned people who

could've spilled the beans on his own involvement in Iran-Contra.

The prosecutor called it "cover up." Remember this: