I continue to be amazed that almost daily we are treated to the rambling monologues of Rove. I am not surprised though that there are some media outlets that continue to question him as if he were an honest man with a objective, educated opinion.

He is a criminal. But that doesn’t matter anymore. There are several former criminal government officials that are given space on talk shows. And that alone gives a clue to the state of the media in this country. No wonder our press is ranked so low in the world now. We have nothing going for us but, trash talk, right wing hate talkers and former criminals and plain nuts.

But the sewer accepts everything thrown into it.

TP: “Rove’s claim that pardons and commutations are “not granted within five years after the offense” is ironic…”

Leaving out that little phrase at the beginning of the comment sure changes the meaning. Oh well, the TP faithful won’t mind. ;)

Get off camera and stay off camera until you do have to come on to speak about a crucial matter.

Karl sure is coming apart at the seams quicker than a fat person ruins a pair of spandex pants that are two sizes too small.

If pardons are not normally granted until at least 5 years after the fact, and as pardons are normally channeled through the normal process

Could you please explain to me why this pardon did not go through the normal channels (instead going straight to the prez) and happened less than the normal span of time ?

As for Libby — Rove must think the public memory is even worse than it truly is.

IOKIYAR.

If Nixon had gone to jail for his criminal acts, then Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush might have been a little more hesitant when contemplating committing extra-judicial, extra-Constitutional criminal acts while in office…and saved our nation a whole lot of grief in the process.

Rove: “Its a cookie!!”

Readin’ ‘n writin’ aren’t activities they particularly value among us common folk. They’d prefer if we read nothing and watched only Faux News.

Only the “conservative intellectuals” should be literate. Lord knows what sort of mischief people can get into once they start reading.

More important, though, it leads to further and more dangerous abuse of power since the crimes go without punishment. The criminal trail from Nixon to Reagan to HWBush to gwbush shows how the offences slide closer and closer to treason, which used to be punishable by death but is now pardoned before sentences even begin.

To top it all, or more appropriately, to bottom it all out, we have this turd stain on the underwear of the country commenting on it when he should’ve been hung–oh about five years ago.

Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
O/T: Top 10 Most Literate U.S. Cities also happen to be [largely] liberal hotbeds.

*BOOOOOM* (that’s the sound GOPigs imploding)

That’s interesting, Matt, but I doubt if it will mean very much to wingnuts.

Readin’ ‘n writin’ aren’t activities they particularly value among us common folk. They’d prefer if we read nothing and watched only Faux News.

Isn’t this an acknowledgment that Bush can not pardon his cronys without there being convictions. I expect blanket pardons for the whole lot of slimy critters and I am vehemently opposed!

There do not have to be convictions for the president to pardon someone. Ford pardoned Nixon for any crimes he might have committed while in office. Nixon was convicted of nothing in the court of law; in the court of public opinion, most people (Dick Cheney was one notable exception) thought Nixon was a big-time crook.