Against It, Before He Was For It - Just In Case You Need An Illustrated Guide To Presidential Hypocrisy
Published by BG on Thursday, July 05, 2007 at 8:03 AM.Dreher, Conservative 'DMN' Columnist, Hits Libby Move -- and Hypocrisy
(Quoting Dreher's article)
From "A Charge to Keep," Bush's 1999 campaign biography, on commuting the sentences or pardoning: "I don't believe my role is to replace the verdict of a jury with my own unless there are new facts or evidence of which a jury was unaware, or evidence that the trial was somehow unfair."
President Bush, yesterday:
"I respect the jury’s verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison."
OK, so it's not technically replacing a jury's verdict, but that's a distinction without much of a difference here. Does Bush think the trial was "somehow unfair"? Or is he simply a hypocrite?
If only Scooter Libby had lied under oath about sex, or in service to a Democratic president, we would have been compelled to outrage by a high government official's perjury! Yes?
(via Cliff Schecter)
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