It is funny, I think everyone presumed that Bush’s nods to bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle were mere campaign rhetoric like they are for Barack “I won” Obama. But he really meant it, and by not putting the clamps on Frank and his mortgage meltdown we are now all paying the price.

18-1 on February 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM

To his great credit as a man, and our country’s great detriment….

Please donate to the Libby Legal Defense Trust, PO Box 96418, Washington, DC 20090

Every time Mary Matalin sends me a fund raising letter, I send in some money. I have put a few hundred toward this cause. He still has MASSIVE legal bills to payoff.

This man was SO SCREWED

Please send in even $25 if you can.

I suppose this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Dick Cheney urged a pardon for Scooter Libby, one that George W. Bush chose not to give. In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch……

Bush looks good in comparison to BHO (but then again so does Charles Manson). But his refusal to confront Congress especially Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank when they forced cowardly bankers to make bad loans to terribly bad risk (mostly minority) loan candidates, makes him an enabler in the fiscal mess we’re in. Also, he showed no loyalty to Libby or the Border Guards. Therefore he is gutless. Go Cheney.

MaiDee on February 17, 2009 at 7:19 PM

It is funny, I think everyone presumed that Bush’s nods to bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle were mere campaign rhetoric like they are for Barack “I won” Obama. But he really meant it, and by not putting the clamps on Frank and his mortgage meltdown we are now all paying the price.

“But his refusal to confront Congress especially Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank when they forced cowardly bankers to make bad loans to terribly bad risk (mostly minority) loan candidates, makes him an enabler in the fiscal mess we’re in.”

HAHAHAHAHA! And they say Democrats smoke weed.

What are you doing, Meth? Come back down to earth there, killer.

That is why we have had 8 years of liberal windup. Obama is just following through with the pitch.

At least we stopped him on Miers and amnesty. Otherwise, he is our Jimmy Carter.

I’m with Cheney on this one – Bush dumped on Libby and it’s a damn shame.

His was a political prosecution – and it deserved a political pardon.

jake-the-goose on February 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM

Agree totally. Bush should have pardoned Libby.

If you’re trying to claim that Fitzgerald is going easy on Blago, it just doesnt wash. I mean, consider the language Fitzgerald used in his initial press conference. He took the gloves off. He instantly made Blago a nationally infamous person; Rod became the most hated sitting politician in America overnight. As a prosecutor, he’s going to want to nail the criminal whom he made famous.

Sending a known agent of a foreign power (Saudi Arabia) on a secret mission the real intent of which is to try and undercut American foreign policy seems to meet the threshold for treason to me.

I lean toward your second explanation, too. Bush has a very well-developed sense of right and wrong

Is that why he pushed for TARP?

Bush disappoints,

simple as that.

We obviously have a problem when attorneys with extraordinary powers turn up nothing as far as what they were actually assigned to investigate. While at the same time they go onto fishing expeditions trying not to investigate a crime that’s already occurred but to force somebody to commit it during the investigation.

This is not why we have special prosecutors, and this problem needs to be addressed. Clinton’s case was a disgrace, so was Libby’s.

And I think some of the other commenters hit it on the head when they said that Bush is very much a right-and-wrong kind of guy. Like all presidents, he sincerely wanted to have a scandal-free presidency. He saw Libby’s actions as a taint on his presidency, and he was not happy about that. He wanted to be spotless, and Libby was a spot. So he wasnt going to do any favors for Libby.

flyfisher on February 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM

Finally. No one got as screwed as those two. Their situation represents one of the real low points in the history of US sovereignty.

When these morons in Congress try to push the amnesty again (with McCain and his gang jumping on board) this country is going to go ballistic. I don’t think they know it, either.