Kristol: ‘Bush Should Pardon Libby. He Should Do it Now’

[kpete]

Kristol: ‘Bush Should Pardon Libby. He Should Do it Now’

Today on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said, “Bush should pardon (former Cheney Chief of Staff Scooter) Libby. He should do it now. It would be fantastic.”

Libby has been charged with obstructing justice, making false statements to a grand jury and perjury. Kristol, however, asserted that Libby was only indicted because special prosecutor was “totally out of control” and “had to indict someone.” He added that Libby, “didn’t lie in any serious meaning of lying before a grand jury.”

VIDEO & Transcript at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/libby-pardon-2/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Sure. Pardon Libby & cut the rope

Fitz is tying around Cheney's neck.

Could well happen--one thing about those Bushes is they know how to use the pardon to save their own asses. Case in point--Poppy pardoned Caspar Weinberger to scuttle the Iran-Contra investigation that was heading straight for him.

[napi21]

2. Afraid of a trial, are we? Hmmm, what infomight come out in

a trial, and about WHO?

IMO that would absolutely kill the Pub party!

Hmmm, maybe we really DO wantLibby pardoned!!!

[acmavm]

3. Well finally the shoe has dropped. It was getting rather annoying

waiting so long for one of the neocon SOBs to finally say it.

Everyone here knew this was coming. It's been discussed and talked about and predicted since the little bastard was indicted.

WELL, HERE IT IS.

[Eugene]

4. Kristol is spinning so fast I'm getting nauseous.

Lying to a grand jury is a crime. Libby is charged with that crime.

Let me get this straight. Lying about a blowjob is a high crime.
Lying about disclosing state secrets is not "serious" in the
meaning of lying.
:wtf:

Afraid Libby might talk? Let's dangle the prospect of a pardon
so he'll keep his mouth shut.

[sendero]

5. Kristol is 100% wrong all the time..

... no reason for it to be different now.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Evading reponsibility, how republicon

Sleazyness for the corrupt republicon cronies


how typical

[spanone]

7. Naw, billy, I think a trial is much better.

[Turbineguy]

8. Bush should shoot Kristol

he should do it now.

On edit: He should have done it 6 years ago.

[kpete]

10. he could let

Cheney do it (better aim)

[KoKo]

9. Repugs prove once again they are Above the Law! Dems should hop

on that one and make it a campaign issue.

[Amonester]

11. IMHO, they do.

Well... On the official site (different locations), they do.

Like:

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/02/the_country_wei.php
Bob Herbert: Vice President Cheney Epitomizes White House Failures. "A vice president who insists on writing his own rules, ...
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/02/the_country_wei.php

also:
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/05/must_read_a_pre.php
Veto? Who Needs a Veto?
New York Times Editorial Board
May 5, 2006

"...President Bush doesn't bother with vetoes; he simply declares his intention not to enforce anything he dislikes. Charlie Savage at The Globe reported recently that Mr. Bush had issued more than 750 'presidential signing statements' declaring he wouldn't do what the laws required. Perhaps the most infamous was the one in which he stated that he did not really feel bound by the Congressional ban on the torture of prisoners.

"In this area, as in so many others, Mr. Bush has decided not to take the open, forthright constitutional path. He signed some of the laws in question with great fanfare, then quietly registered his intention to ignore them. He placed his imperial vision of the presidency over the will of America's elected lawmakers. And as usual, the Republican majority in Congress simply looked the other way. ...

"Like many of Mr. Bush's other imperial excesses, this one serves no legitimate purpose. Congress is run by a solid and iron-fisted Republican majority. And there is actually a system for the president to object to a law: he vetoes it, and Congress then has a chance to override the veto with a two-thirds majority. ..."
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/05/must_read_a_pre.php

[Beelzebud]

12. Beelzebud: Kristol should take a bath with his toaster oven.

It would be a small token of regret, for getting America into another Vietnamesque, unwinnable war, against people that did nothing to us.

[H2O Man]

13. I believe that Mr. Kristol

is concerned that the Libby trial -- and, indeed, the pre-trial hearings -- will inflict further wounds on VP Cheney and Newt Gingrich.