Prediction: GWB Pardons Everyone
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Taking a page out of Daddy’s play book, GWB will pardon everyone connected to his “War on Terror,” “even though they committed no crime.” He’ll even pardon himself.
You heard it here first folks.
Which brings up a bigger issue. The power of the Presidential Pardon. It’s too much power. It’s a tool for politically connected cronies to get out of jail free. Richard Nixon, Patty Hearst, Marc Rich, Casper Weinberger, Scooter Libby (okay, that’s technically a commutation, but it’s the same power). Normal people have to go to jail, pay fines. Politically connected people on the other hand, including the President himself, are above the law.
That should be changed, but it won’t be, because it would just be “too painful and divisive.”