How can George Bush commute the sentence of a perjurer?

Question

When he executed mentally retarded people as Governer of Texas and mocked a women who begged for mercy. Why then can he not also commute the disgracefull 55 year sentence given to a man in California for selling marijuana, a far less serious offence than the crimes committed by Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Is it a case of one law for the Neocons and another law for everyone else?

Answer 1

Because it is his belief that the laws of the land apply to everyone else except him and his cronies.

Answer 2

I don't understand the hysteria behind this Libby issue. Really, who gives a sh*t? There are about a MILLION more important issues than Scooter Libby. OK, Bush pardoned the guy. And then we go back to Clinton pardoning hundreds of convicted felons. Fine and dandy. Libby is a perjurer and then someone will point out that so is Bill Clinton. Blah, blah, blah. F*cking enough already.

Answer 3

this is for the defeatocrats, since they are so unaware of articles of the constitution...article 2 section 2 of the constitution states that the president 'shall have the power to grant rep rives and pardons for offenses against the United states, except in cases of impeachment. other than the impeachment exception, the pardon power is absolute and unreviewable; neither congress nor the courts can overturn a president's decision, The power is broad and has no limits, except those that are self-imposed,...Douglas Ber man, Ohio State University law Professor.

Answer 4

GWB was given the power to do something like that when he was elected.
Everybody in USA knows what he did as governor of Texas. Nothing is hidden.The people was given the choice, here is the result.
I am not saying that Kerry would have been better.But i tell what i see.
As you probably know, friendship and politics are a toxic combination.There were also early signs of this behavior during the first term...

Answer 5

It is one of his "Executive Privileges."

The President can grant clemency and even pardon criminals.

In this case, to prevent his buddy Libby from having to be in custody while awaiting his appeal decision, Bush decided to commute Libby's sentence.

As you have pointed out, Bush is a hypocrite.

Answer 6

I like George Bush, but clearly that was a bad decision. But the democrats acting like it's the worst thing they have ever seen in politics, now that's funny, I wonder if they just forgot about clintons last week or so in office.

Answer 7

It's one of the Privledges that the President has, like starting an illegal war, Supplying no-contract bids to Haliburton, Not doing one thing that any decent US Citizen can be proud of.

Answer 8

He has executive privilege being the president of the United States. It`s in the U.S. Constitution. If your interested read the Constitution and its Amendments, I found it very informative.

Use your search engines and enter United States Constitution.

Answer 9

the same way sandy berger, who held the same position as condi rice in the clinton administration, was caught shoving top secret documents down his underpants and in his socks at the national archives and didn't serve a day in prison for that, all that happened was he lost his law liscense for five years....you see, sean, it works both ways. libs, cons, dems, republicans,...all have examples of such cronyism..get over it.

Answer 10

The same way Clinton pardoned his criminal buddies before leaving office. Is the law any different for him? Or for the rest of you libs?