ClearChannel’s latest reports show that it’s uncertain if enough folks can be deceived into becoming unquestioning Dittoheads by November to support his coup. 
Martha! Why anyone else?
Just checking – does anyone still believe a spate of pardons will be forthcoming?
Sure, just not as originally scheduled. Sorta like getting the troops out of Iraq…
I’ve got friends who frequently find themselves on the BW Parkway – think we can get one of those federal traffic ticket dealies? Maybe a blanket amnesty of some sort for everyone who was speeding solely to get their average speed for their trip up over 10 mph?
Do re-elected presidents routinely issue pardons as their first term draws to an end?
Or is City Slicker Bricker baiting the liberals?
The point of the lame duck pardon is that the outgoing prez doesn’t need to care about the political ramifications, sort of a last burning of political capital before he can’t use it anymore. So no, re-elected presidents don’t do the samething, and Bricker may be gloating a bit.
Of course, the relevant question might be, does a president who is forced out by impeachment still get to pardon people? Well, we can hope that question becomes relavant anyway.
Obviously **Rick **wanted to gloat a bit more, at the expense of those who thought they were clever by assuming Bush would lose. But even if we ignore that false assumption, the people offered up for pardon do show how lots of posters here simply can’t think rationally about Bush. Ken Lay gets a pardon-- I’ll bet any amount of money that that doesn’t happen.
Clearly, there won’t be any end-of-term pardons this year from the President. But there might still be end-of-year pardons – many presidents have taken the opportunity of the holidays and the new year to pardon people. President Bush has stuck to people you’ve never heard of who have served their sentences and gone on to live good productive lives. But 'tis the season – he could throw a surprise or two in there. None of the people mentioned on this thread by the various reality-challenged conspiracy theorists, as you say. But there might be an ex-dealer cum Minister or somesuch out there with a pardon in his future. I don’t think speculating whether a Bush newly-freed from election pressures might change his historically tight pardon policy (going back to his governor days, when a guy he pardoned found himself in trouble shortly after the thing was done) to something a little more loose is entirely useless.
Anyone notice that Marc Rich is back in the news? Seems that, imediately after Clinton pardoned him, he went to back to work on the now-thoroughly-exposed-as-corrupt Oil-for-Food program?
OK, Bricker, you’ve had your cheap thrill for the day; any more excitement and you will be awake all night . Mods, please close this thread.