Pardon for Scooter, OK. Pardon for hero, no way

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/434996,CST-NWS-qt20.article

BY ZAY N. SMITH Sun-Times Columnist

News Item (1991): Anthony Circosta, 13, of Agawam, Mass., is convicted of assault for shooting another youth in the arm with a BB-gun, although the BB did not break the youth's skin.

News Item (2005): Anthony Circosta, having worked his way through college and joined the Army National Guard, is awarded the Bronze Star while leading a platoon in Iraq.

News Item (2006): Anthony Circosta, home from Iraq, twice seeks a pardon from Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney so that he can become a police officer -- and is summarily turned down twice.

News Item (2007): Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, asked if convicted White House aide Scooter Libby should be pardoned, says: "It's worth looking at that."

As for decorated war veteran Circosta:

Sorry. You're not worth looking at.

[mod mom]

1. I will be out in the streets asking WHERE IS THE JUSTICE? if this pardon occurs.

[meegbear]

2. Since Massachusetts no longer has a governor who's a douchebag ...

and I defy anyone to say Romney isn't one, perhaps they should petition Governor Patrick for the pardon.

[sallyseven]

3. Governor Patrick is a fine upstanding, caring person.

I think we have a winner in him. But on Romney, I quote Congressman Barney Frank, "The real Romney is clearly an extraordinarily ambitious man with no perceivable political principals whatsoever. He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics." I got this our of TPMCafe. Did you see Andrea Mitchel yesterday start to ask the question of a romney stooge and when he cut her off she didn't say a word. Shame on her. I for one will not let the media make my choice for President.

[KharmaTrain]

4. These Asshats Just "Don't Get It"

You gotta love this race to the bottom among the GOOP stooges. To get the 25% or so of the 20% of the dead-enders who will select the next GOOP nominee, we're hearing crap from these panderers that refute virtually every major "tenet" of "modern conservatism"...from being "pro-family" to fiscally "responsible" and now for their coveted "rule of law".

We lived through a year of these fuksticks screaming about "perjury" being more than just cause to impeach Clinton, but when it happens to one of their toadies, he's a "hero"? When this involves outing a CIA agent and the perjury is proven in a court of law by a jury of peers? So there's no "underlying crime". Come to a local military cemetary...I'll show you 3,500 plus underlying crimes.

Hopefully the DNC is stockpiling all these hypocries and documenting them...words said in 2007 will come back to bite the GOOP in 2008.

[JDPriestly]

5. If Libby is pardoned, future presidents and their aids will

feel free to violate any law they want. On the other hand, if he is pardoned, Congress can call him to testify about various things and he cannot plead the Fifth with regard to those concerning his lies about the Plame matter. Libby might be pardoned this time, but if he faces a second perjury charge, he would face serious consequences.