Pressure mounts for Libby clemency

[EV_Ares]

Is Libby the Bush administration's last chance to make up with loyalists who are losing patience?

White House loyalists have begun arguing that clemency for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby -- either a pardon or a commuted sentence -- would be a way for an embattled President Bush to reassert himself, particularly among conservatives.

The White House has not ruled out a pardon for Libby, sources say. But several Republicans, who sense a movement in Libby’s favor, said a more likely possibility might be a presidential commutation -- a reduction or elimination of Libby's 2½-year federal prison sentence. Such a move, they said, would be less divisive for the country.

A well-connected Republican whose views have reached Bush’s inner circle said that if Libby goes to prison, “It would be seen by the religious and policy conservatives as the president abandoning his loyalty virtue for the hedonistic pleasure of political expediency.”

If Paris goes, Scooter goes!

(((entire story @ link below)))

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0607/4517.html

[GeorgeGist]

1. What would ...

Scooby do?

[VanPelt4IndSenate]

2. Funny how convicted republicans are always innocent

Low life crooks, nothing more....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Welcome to DU!

Are you running for Senate in Indiana? Be sure to go to the Indiana forum! :hi:

[newyawker99]

9. Hi VanPelt4IndSenate!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Hamlette]

3. Politico...a wholy owned subsidary of the GOP like Fox and Newsmax.

I don't believe a word they say.

[pwb]

4. if neocons disagree with a law they break it.

laws are for little democrats only.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. "Less divisive"??????

If Scooter gets away scot free, a WHOLE bunch of folks are going to be mad.

[chemenger]

7. The Texacutioner

Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer criticized Gov. George W. Bush for making fun of an executed Texas woman in an interview Bush gave to Talk magazine. "I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the governor of a major state running for president thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put to death." Just before her execution date, Tucker appealed for clemency on the grounds that she had become a born-again Christian. Bush's reply: " `Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, `don't kill me,'

Link: http://www.texecutions.com/


"There have been questions all along about the depth and seriousness of George W. Bush. They have been brought into sharp focus now by a surprising issue: the way the death penalty is administered in Texas. In his comments on that subject Governor Bush has defined himself, unforgettably, as shallow and callous.
In his five years as governor of Texas, the state has executed 131 prisoners -- far more than any other state. Mr. Bush has lately granted a stay of execution for the first time, for a DNA test."

Link: www.commondreams.org/views/061700-102.htm

So after a record of 1 stay of execution out of 132 death sentences in the five years he was governor of Texas, if he dares to even think of pardoning Scooter (God, what a childish nickname for a grown man) Libby, I can only say ... may he rot in the deepest, hottest recesses of hell for eternity.

[pwb]

8. the bush bunch only have to disagree with a law

to break it. like the CIA secret prisons, illegal, but bush disagreed and had them anyway. neocons are above the law. scooter just lied to start a false war.:nopity:

[Rageneau]

10. Libby won'd need clemency, his conviction will be overturned.

Scooter Libby's conviction is almost certain to be overturned. Not on the merits, of course, but by good old right-wing disrespect for the Rule of Law.

You see, the three-judge panel scheduled to hear Libby's appeal is headed by Lawrence Silberberg -- the Big Daddy of right-wing nuts. Silberberg cares nothing for the law, he is a pure idealouge who decides cases based on the political affiliation of the defendent. When it was Clinton, Silberberg threw the book. Now that it's Libby, Silberberg will massage him with scented oils, kiss his pee-pee and send him on his way. Watch and see.

A long time ago, BartCop strongly suggested that the Dems make a big deal out of the Libby case, and get * to promise not to pardon him if he was convicted. Back then, Bush would have had to make that promise. But now -- with the MSm clamoring for a pardon or commutation, it is too late to introduce ahame into this affair. If the dumb Democrats would listen to BC, we'd have had those wingnuts on the run years ago.