Senate tells Bush not to pardon Libby

Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | July 20, 2007 | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

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WASHINGTON - A brawl over presidential pardons punctured the normally courtly ambiance of the Senate on Thursday night, but Republicans and Democrats agreed to bury the hatchet and erase the evidence before the sun rose Friday.

In the heat of a partisan spat, Democrats forced a vote on a nonbinding measure to instruct President Bush not to pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. But there's no record of the 47-49 vote in the daily record of congressional proceedings — or anywhere else.

That's because senators agreed less than an hour later to undo their vote and pretend it had never happened.

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[agere_contra]

120 minutes of Cheney! Please God he writes three pardons and gets all unilateral on the Southern Border.

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But there's no record of the 47-49 vote in the daily record of congressional proceedings — or anywhere else.

It was an unvote by an uncongress.

[Red Badger]

Check me if I am wrong but was it not the legislative branch that gave the Executive branch the right to pardons and sentence commutations.

No, it was the Constitutional Convention. The founding fathers did it.........for good reason......

[tobyhill]

OK everyone, it never happened! /sarc

[jeddavis]

Bush should call a prime time press conference and SELL Scooter a pardon for $20 and use the 20 to send out for pizza, and tell every demokkkrat in the world to go **** themselves.

[txhurl]

And Ramos and Campeon, too! And get rid of Mookie & Olmert!
He’s got a 2 1/2 hr. window. Use it!

[FoxInSocks]

"If the Senate has decided to go into debating the appropriateness of future pardons, there is plenty of material to go around on past pardons," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader.

Read about this in another article, which had more detail.

McConnell then "proceeded to maneuver the Senate clerk into reading off the laundry list of Clinton administration pardons, including those of Marc Rich and others." It referred to Harry Reid getting "Mitchslapped."

[Lurker]

You're wrong.

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[rocksblues]

It’s all being orchestrated by Move-On, the Senate Democrats are so afraid of them that they put their limited -—ah never mind.

[tobyhill]

Senate erases Libby pardon vote from record
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19873167/

There, it’s erased because MSNBC says so.

[MeanWestTexan]

Talk about ignorance of the separation of powers.

Have these morons ever READ the Constitution.

[TonyInOhio]

This happened right after Dingy Harry got Mitchslapped.

No wonder he wanted the record erased. :)

[eleni121]

One Two slam dunk!

Pardon the two border agents proudly and then Libby— immediately!

[PEACE ENFORCER]

“With that, the Senate got back down to business and completed the education bill in the wee hours of Friday morning.”
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Conclusion...Senate accomplishes nothing other than making government “grab-bag” bigger, thus creating more government theft, paid for by...you guessed it, Joe Taxpayer.

[MeanWestTexan]

No, it’s the Constitution.

[Izzy Dunne]

Check me if I am wrong but was it not the legislative branch that gave the Executive branch the right to pardons and sentence commutations.

Wrong.

It wasn't given by the legislative branch at all but by Article II, section 2 of Old Faithful.

[Redcloak]

For more laughs, read this account of the day's Mitchslapping.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

It was an unvote by an uncongress.

Who voted for it before they voted against it?

[zencat]

Erase a pointless vote, on a matter they don’t control about a future event.

Jeez, oh how I love Congress. I’m really glad they’re up there looking out for us.

[Vaquero]

Every day the Senate is looking more and more like a Monty Python skit and less like a governing body.