Political Thoughts-Not Only Should Bush Pardon Libby, There's Much More He Needs to Do

Not that it will do any good but in this political editorial I've got some advice for George Dubya as regards Scooter Libby. For not only should he pardon the man, there's something else he MUST do.

And thoughts on immigration, God save us from the unskilled labor now serving in the Senate.

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What Bush Should Do About That Scooter Libby Prosecution

President Bush is ending his presidency much the same way his father ended his. For at one point during both father and son presidencies their approval ratings soared and life under a Bush leadership was deemed fine and fancy.

Both of them sat back and let events and the nastiness of D.C. capture them, their ideas and their momentum until nothing was left of each presidency save the acrid ashes of a leadership left to rot on the vine.

It evidently a Bush family trait to consider the silly act of defending his or her self to somehow be a bad thing, a waste of time.

There's an old saying that he who won't defend himself doesn't deserve defense by others.

The Republican party base in this country is so disgusted with the elected Republican leadership in general and the President in particular that they're all ready to throw the whole lot of them over the bow.

For over these past six plus years we've been defending the President re his choice to go to war and his right to choose political appointees and a cabinet of his own. Besides Alberto Gonzales, a rather lackluster Attorney General judging by his testimony before congressional committees, Bush has allowed the opposition party to nag and pick apart his choices until the GOP base is simply overwhelmed.

The WORST thing President Bush has done, at least as I see it, is to not only allow Patrick Fitzgerald to continue wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a political witch hunt but now Scooter Libby, a harmless public servant with three children, is set to serve almost three years in jail for essentially nothing.

SETTING SCOOTER FREE

"During last night's presidential debate, all the GOP candidates were asked if they would pardon Scooter Libby. Fred Thompson, who has not yet formally announced, pronounced (special prosecutor Patrick) Fitzgerald's probe a 'witch hunt' and said he would 'absolutely' issue a presidential pardon if he were in the White House."
- John Fund, Political Diary, 6/6/07

Add to this pile of bile that the Republican base must swallow after a couple of years of watching Joe Wilson and Val Plame put on a show, now the President cluck-clucks over his immigration policy and dares to call the congressional Republicans again and ask them to go back out and try to cram a so-called "comprehensive" immigration reform down the stupid public's throat. Not that these elected congressional Republicans ever showed a spine but they made it very clear they will do no such thing. The electorate has let their displeasure be known about this immigration problem and one thing we know is that the federal government has clearly failed "Running a Country 101" and its first precept: PROTECT YOUR BORDERS.

If Bush really wants to re-gain the confidence of his base for the 15 plus months he has left as President, here's some things he can do as regards Scooter Libby that would go far to restore the Republican bases' belief in a fair system of justice. Of course Bush won't do it. For him to even suggest that the elected Republican congress critters keep hitting us with that immigration nonsense is indicator enough of the man's disdain for us morons who dream of truth, justice and the American way.

Still, I shall dream.



In a national broadcast from the oval office, announced well in advance and with time given by ALL networks, Bush should announce to the American public that as regards the prosecution and sentencing of VP Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, he, as President of the United States, will request the following of the appropriate congressional and/or bureaucratic division:

-Scooter Libby, a man whose only crime was divulging administration strategy to news reporters, will be pardoned immediately

-an investigation will begin on Richard Armitage, deputy Secretary under Colin Powell and the REAL leaker of Valerie Plame's identity.

-investigatory committees will also be set up to look into Joe Wilson AND Valerie Plame. This committee will be charged with investigating Joe Wilson's import/export business and its ties to Nigeria. The committee will also be charged with checking Valerie Plame's testimony in front of congress and the many differences in her tale of how events unfolded and just how it was HER husband who got sent to Nigeria when the man isn't even a State Department employee.

-any and all elected congress people involved in the Joe Wilson trip to Nigeria will be included in any investigation

-a judicial committee will be appointed to investigate Patrick Fitzgerald himself. Bush should indicate that in light of the ongoing trial for Durham prosecutor Nifong America is aware of the seriousness of prosecutors run amok. Some questions this special judicial committee will be charged with determining is why, even though Fitzgerald knew that it was Armitage who leaked Plame's identity, why did he continue the investigation anyway?

-Bush should make it clear that any and all reporters involved with this case will be put under oath and will also testify. Scooter Libby is alleged to have lied about conversations he had with Tim Russert. Under Bush's new mandate-Russert will have to testify as well. Get enough people to talk about an event long enough and soon one or the other will get a detail wrong. It's how Fitzgerald got Libby, now let's have all the reporters be subject to the same danger.

-ask that a monetary award be given to Judith Miller for time she spent in jail as a result of the Fitzgerald investigation as if the man had done the right thing and shut it down when Armitage's participation was known at the onset Miller wouldn't have been jailed. Bush should tell the American public that innocent people should not be sent to jail that a prosecutor can look important. Witness Duke's Mike Nifong.

-Bush should inform the American public that he is going to ask the elected members of congress to insure that any special prosecutors appointed in the future will report to SOMEONE. Patrick Fitzgerald had no boss, NONE. Bush should make it clear that American has never been a country to allow one individual enough power to jail people at will.

If Bush phrased his speech well enough, and especially in view of the public's new awareness of runaway prosecutors witness Mike Nifong, I believe the American public will understand it. Of course the opposition party will heckle and yowl but get this silly American public on your side and, witness the immigration nastiness, even Pelosi and Reid will shut the hell up.

I don't know how Bush, even Dick Cheney, Patrick Fitzgerald and those spineless Republic congress critters can live with sending a man with three children and a family to jail for almost THREE YEARS for NOTHING! Not one of them has a conscience.

Will the Joke of "Comprehensive" Immigration Reform Return?

And so we hear that Bush summoned Republican congress critters to the White House in an attempt to revitalize that silly comprehensive immigration reform. Although these types lie and smile at the same time, the congress critters report that they told the President.."no way, Jose".

There's no need for me to type a single word about why that "comprehensive" reform package these lackluster congress critters want to shove down our throats is a disaster. For Thomas Lifsun has summed it all up perfectly in the seven truths in his article HERE in the American Thinker.

Below is just his number one reason why that immigration reform won't work. Click the link to read the other six.

The sluggishness and limitations of the federal bureaucracy are well-known. Where are the people going to come from to run the background checks of any illegals who are given any sort of path toward legitimate residence? If the universe of "clients" is somewhere between 12 and 20 million, think of the size of the organization necessary to process them. The services of the existing immigration bureaucracy make getting a driver's license seem like a day at the beach (ask anyone who has tried to get legal residency), so don't even think about piling on additional massive doses of money, people, rules, regulations, and all the other "inputs" government bureaucracies use to measure their importance and flex their muscles.


If we go with a brand new bureaucracy, we all know what is going to happen. The government unions see a lot of new dues paying members. Ambitious bureaucrats see vast empires to be built, volumes and volumes of regulations to be written and interpreted; and of course lawyers see many years of litigation, test cases and judicial activism ahead. This will all cost years of effort and tens of billions of dollars at least. Inspecting airline passengers is a piece of cake compared to vetting illegal aliens, and that effort has been full of waste, inefficiency and occasional frightening incompetence.

Once again, if Bush REALLY wants to fix this country's immigration system, he's going to have to sit down and have a heart-to-heart talk with the American people. He's going to have to tell us just how we can believe yet another big government bureaucracy can handle all the new duties this new bill will charge it with. We've all had to renew our drivers' licenses or question the IRS about our taxes. We'll listen with our collective arms folded, legs crossed. We KNOW, us silly fools out here in la-la land that the government bureaucracy barely functions. Now we're to believe that same government will be able to check if the new immigrants can speak English properly? I've got a bridge to sell cheap and Bush also needs to sell these lies.

Bush is going to have to convince us that the bottom will fall out if we don't get immigration reform, he's going to have to admit that the elected governors since this country's inception have failed to protect our borders, he's going to have to illustrate, effectively, that the borders will be protected.

Of course the man doesn't have it in him. He can't even get justice for one unimportant public servant and he's allowed millions to be wasted on that joke.

Why on earth should we believe a word he says on immigration?

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