Comments on: Bush administration’s hypocrisy on federal sentencing.

By: Mr. President

Mr. President — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:21:47 +0000

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By: Lora

Lora — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:42:56 +0000

clintons(SIC) pardons
have(SIC) a look and dont(SIC) be so mad.
Comment by drock

We don’t have to look, dumb-as-a-rock. I’m even going to discuss the differences in the types of crimes Clinton pardoned and Libby’s, because it’s undoubtedly way over your pathetic head. But didn’t your parents or teachers ever tell you that “two wrongs don’t make a right”? With you trolls, it’s always “But Clinton. But Jimmy Carter.” Get over it already. This is the 21st cenury.

By: Lora

Lora — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:39:33 +0000

Who cares what they think? The former husband (of the victim) wanted Miss Tucker dead!
Comment by m12

For the record, me12(yrs. old), the family of one of the two victims wanted Karla Faye dead; the family of the other victim forgave her. Actually I myself feel that the wishes of the victim’s family or loved ones should be taken into consideration. But a rightwing troll like you doesn’t care what the Pope or Rev. Falwell thought? How blasphemous!

By: drock

drock — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:51:12 +0000

http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm

clintons pardons

have a look and dont be so mad.

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:21:05 +0000

Heh. Happy 4th, Wayne & Jane. :)

Comment by Zooey â€” July 4, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

On behalf of Jane (who’s outside working on her garden) and myself, Happy Independence Day to you, too, Zooey!

Enjoy it safely and proudly.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:54:48 +0000

For some reason, Jane was MapQuesting directions to MSNBC headquarters. Any idea what thatâ€™s about?
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider â€” July 4, 2007 @ 1:15 am

That traitor!!

Heh. Happy 4th, Wayne & Jane. :)

By: m12

m12 — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:35:05 +0000

#176

Why do you make up stuff that isn’t there?

1. The Wall Street Journal included equal numbers of liberals and conservatives. Their Op-eds might be conservative, but those people didn’t make the rankings.

2. Ronald Reagan was ranked 6th in the 2005 WSJ poll. Johnson was 18th. In 2000, it was 8th/17th.

Do you know how to read?

If you want to know which poll is the most worthless, take a look at the 1996 one. I can see how delusional liberals rank Jimmy Carter over Reagan, despite what the American people thought, but they even ranked Carter over Blowjob Bill Slick Clinton!

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:42:01 +0000

m12 – You conveniently left out part of that explanation on Wikipedia and that was:

“The table below shows that the two groups had only small differences in ranking the best and worst presidents. There is only one difference between the ideologies’ top 10 lists – Lyndon B. Johnson (liberals) instead of Dwight Eisenhower (conservatives) – and the “worst 7″ lists also differ by only one person, with the conservatives selecting Jimmy Carter as one of the bottom seven instead of Calvin Coolidge, the liberals’ choice for seventh-worst president.”

Also, you are picking and choosing what you want to see. If you look at the chart that rates them according to various polling outfits, you will see that the Wall Street Journal (a true bastion of liberalism) rates LBJ above Ronald Raygun.

By: m12

m12 — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:18:18 +0000

#174

That should be ‘former husband of the victim’.

By: m12

m12 — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:17:53 +0000

Youâ€™re entitled to your own opinion, me12(years old), but it doesnâ€™t count for much here or anywhere else.
Both the Pope and Rev. Falwell supported clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. And even Tucker Carlson, usually a GOP lapdog, expressed dismay at the way Gov. Dumbya mocked her.

Who cares what they think? The former husband wanted Miss Tucker dead!

By: m12

m12 — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:16:30 +0000

m12 > the top presidential candidate in 1968 was the Democrat Robert Kennedy. He was assassinated, otherwise he would have been elected president. He would have beaten the crap out of Nixon.

Seems like, for some reason, you feel the Democratic War in ‘nam wouldn’t have had any dire effect on the party.

Yet most lefties here think results will be different this time around….

By: Troll

Troll — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:05:12 +0000

Comment by david â€” July 4, 2007 @ 9:39 am

No David the terrorist are those with socialist leanings who would commit our people to serfdom under the iron fist of tyrraical gov.

By: Troll

Troll — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:01:41 +0000

Greed is the enemy

Comment by Raven â€” July 4, 2007 @ 9:30 am

If the greedy are the government, which is the case with both dems and reps, then government is the enemy.

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:39:51 +0000

Government is the enemy.

Comment by Troll â€” July 4, 2007 @ 9:20 am

Dear me! Troll admits to being a terrorist. I say, “Lock him up.”

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:30:40 +0000

Sadly, many, perhaps even a majority, of Americans have the “something for nothing’ complex, otherwise known as greed.
Taxes are what each citizen contributes for the well-being of the whole, and to provide the infrastructure of roads, energy and civilization which we all benefit from.
Taxes in themselves are a wonderful device.
It’s what the money is spent on that matters.
We have corrupt and greedy officials in the highest levels of our government who wheedle and connive and extort for their own personal gain.
And corporations who rake in immense profits, don’t pay their share of taxes as they plunder, pillage, and exploit people, resources, and the environment.
Greed is the enemy

By: celtic cynic

celtic cynic — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:26:23 +0000

Methinks there will be earmarks soon to cover Libby’s fine.
Then the hypocrisy will be complete.

By: Troll

Troll — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:20:37 +0000

I have no desire to defend the republicans whom I think are only the lesser of the two evils. It is a joke however if you think the dems in congress have ever seriously cut taxes or spending with the exception of the military.

Government is the enemy.

By: tarazan

tarazan — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:15:18 +0000

Bush claimed when running in 2000 that he will be cleaning the mess that Clinton created..he will swear to live by and protect the Constitution when he puts his hand on the Bible. Did he?!!

I am not a fan of President Clinton…but are we as a country better now at home and abroad?
Is the average Americans enjoying better healt,education?
Is the system less corrupted now?
Are we in debt more or having surplus?
Is gasoline prices are now cheaper to the average consumer or more expensive?.
Are laws strengthened by this administration or weakened?
Is this administration changing USA to be an empire to rule all over the globe,at a higher cost….?

Do Americans support an empire,and willing to pay big piece of the budget for it?!!

By: Lora

Lora — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:14:32 +0000

Even staunch supporters of the Governor of Texas were appalled at the mockery G.W. Bush made of the plea for mercy from the woman in Texas.

I wasnâ€™t. She deserved it.
Comment by m12 â€”

You’re entitled to your own opinion, me12(years old), but it doesn’t count for much here or anywhere else.
Both the Pope and Rev. Falwell supported clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. And even Tucker Carlson, usually a GOP lapdog, expressed dismay at the way Gov. Dumbya mocked her.

By: LandSurveyor

LandSurveyor — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:13:46 +0000

Troll I’m commenting on the topics repeatedly flowing from the media. And one of those is,

“Clinton’s pardons at the end of his term.”

I’m no expert like you, of course. I’m just responding to the chatter. But go on, big guy. Explain it all to us so we’ll better understand. Keep it coming. In the meantime enjoy some fine literature from our wonderfull Declaration of Independence! And Happy 4th, bro!

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes…