Source: Bush orders pardon re-examined - CNN.com
According to the news article, technically the pardon process has not been completed. At the same time, what does this say about the vetting process the current president is using?
Say Bush issues another set of pardons in the days immediately before his term expires. What if a pardon process is not yet complete by the time Bush leaves office? Could Obama recind one of those as well?
Ah yes the old Marbury v. Madison conundrum…
“Based on the intelligence we had at the time…”
That’s an awfully familiar refrain for this administration.
Missing something here. What “new information” are they referring to? Is that somewhere revealed?
Perhaps it is the “appearance of impropriety” raised by papa Toussie’s $28,500 “donation” to the RNC?
It’s probably that someone just pointed out that the people might not be in a receptive mood to the pardon of a fat cat mortgage defrauder who managed to fuck up so bad in and already deregulated anything goes economic system that bush is largely responsible for. It was probably a courtesy heads up by somebody in the Obama administration because god knows nobody in Bush’s is perceptive enough to pick up on these subtle nuances…
ETA: Or what Squink said, that’s more plausible anyway…
I’m sorry, that’s an issue of national security.
My guess would be that the check bounced.
28 grand? Dunno what the going rate is, but that seems a mite low for a pardon. Did he get it on E-bay?
Traded it for a used airplane, I hear tell.
As to how you get yourself in position to get a pardon,
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Wow. Since when is the Bush administration concerned about the appearance of impropriety?
Yeah, and 28K ain’t squat to the Bushes and the Prescotts. Find that much chump change in the sofa. They got whole clubs of guys called “Pioneers” or “Frontiersman” or “Goat Fletchers”, guys who personally raise 100K, 250K, and so on and so forth. So if there is perfidy afoot, and I’m inclined to believe it, it’s likely not about the money.
There’s a lot of this hitting the ol’ blechosphere. I recommend http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/249420.php
for a briefing.
(Lefty site, tighty righties should observe contamination protocols…)
As well, with more about Berenson:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/24/berenson-toussie/
(Same advisory applies…)
Still, isn’t it nice to see them fuck something up that doesn’t get anybody killed? Refreshing, even a little whimsical.
Luckily Bush thought ahead. If it turns out that he let the guy go when he shouldn’t have, all he has to do is label him an enemy combatant and he can keep him locked up for however long he likes!
Yet. Nobody has been killed yet.
Grinch.
Yeah, and since when did they ever ‘make mistakes’?
Maybe the check bounced. Anyway, if I was the lawyer for the unpardoned guy, I’d be looking for ways to make it stick.
I’d say he is more an optimist than a Grinch…