In 1994 Democratic Congressman Mel Rynolds was convicted of child sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography.
He was sent to prison.
In 1997 he was also convicted of bank fraud and lying to SEC investigators.
After serving his first sentence,
Bill Clinton commuted the bank fraud sentence for this child sex abuser allowing him out of prison 3 years early.
But now the Democratic party is saying commuting Libby's sentence is wrong .
This doesn't pass the smell test.
Commuting the sentence of a child sexual assualter is ok with the Democrats, but not Libby ??
PS: the Democrats actually ran Rynolds for for Congress again in 2004.
Have they no shame ?
2007-07-03 08:00:13 · 12 answers · asked by jeeper_peeper321 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes! There is a double standard. That double standard is that the politicos are not truly held responsible for their crimes as are ordinary citizens. The U.S. government has morphed into a patrician oligarchy which thinks it can govern by fiat, rather than through obedience to the same laws which bind ordinary citizens. It's time that the power for presidential pardon be removed from their hands, because it obviously is being abused. Beyond that, it's time for all thinking Americans to begin seriously reconsidering the role of both major parties in our country's government. Since both seem to think they can behave with impunity, a multiparty system is now called for - a party which is responsive to the people and which doesn't seek to perpetuate its own existence at all costs and through whatever unsavory means it can contrive, including but not limited to collusion with and funding from Corporate America.
2007-07-03 08:15:53 · answer #1 · answered by MathBioMajor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Politics my friend, they count on there followers to contract dementia when it comes to Bill's shenanigans with the power to commute sentences while Prez.
2007-07-03 08:14:21 · answer #2 · answered by labdoctor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're correct. Dems and liberals believe that the law doesn't apply to themselves.
LIbby's was another "lying to authoities" case like Martha Stewart from what I can tell and didn't warrant that outrageous sentence. Clinton also lied under oath and they didn't do a thing.
2007-07-03 08:02:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Politics, politics, politics. It is a shame. There is always a double standard. I am sure, however, that next time there is Dem Prez we GOPers will hold a double standard about something also. It's just the way it is, but I don't like it.
http://www.dryflypolitics.com
2007-07-03 08:07:27 · answer #4 · answered by sbay311 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who pardoned him = Clinton the only president to wag his finger at us and lie at sametime.
Clinton himself was given a freeride because our senate was split 50/50.
2007-07-03 08:04:06 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas B 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's not a good scene when the only defense for your actions is that other people did it too. If the GOP was acting with integrity in the first place, they wouldn't be having to make excuses now.
2007-07-03 08:04:38 · answer #6 · answered by Beardog 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
How about pardoning/commuting the sentences of nobody?
2007-07-03 08:04:12 · answer #7 · answered by The Stylish One 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
With the Democrats...there are no standards. I correct myself. With the Liberals there are no standards.
2007-07-03 08:05:30 · answer #8 · answered by John M 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nope...no shame
Yep....double standard
Nope..it is not relegated to one party, they ALL do it.
2007-07-03 08:21:37 · answer #9 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, according to you, two wrongs make a right?
2007-07-03 08:03:38 · answer #10 · answered by Arbgre555 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋