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Senate tells Bush not to pardon Libby
Associated Press (excerpt) ^
| July 20, 2007
| JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Posted on 07/20/2007 1:14:47 PM PDT by HAL9000
Excerpt -
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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; democrats; demorats; dinghyharry; govwatch; libby; pardon; pardons; senate; traitorousdemorats; ussenate
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To: Suzy Quzy
120 minutes of Cheney! Please God he writes three pardons and gets all unilateral on the Southern Border.
To: HAL9000
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.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:22:47 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: ping jockey
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......
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:23:22 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: HAL9000
OK everyone, it never happened! /sarc
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:23:22 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: HAL9000
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.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:24:02 PM PDT
by
jeddavis
To: Suzy Quzy
And Ramos and Campeon, too! And get rid of Mookie & Olmert!
He’s got a 2 1/2 hr. window. Use it!
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:24:15 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: HAL9000
"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."
To: ping jockey
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:24:26 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to ebola.)
To: freespirited
It’s all being orchestrated by Move-On, the Senate Democrats are so afraid of them that they put their limited -—ah never mind.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:24:50 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Just enforce the law!)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:25:37 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: HAL9000
Talk about ignorance of the separation of powers.
Have these morons ever READ the Constitution.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:26:08 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: HAL9000
This happened right after Dingy Harry got
Mitchslapped.
No wonder he wanted the record erased. :)
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:26:24 PM PDT
by
TonyInOhio
(But westward, look, the land is bright!)
To: HAL9000
One Two slam dunk!
Pardon the two border agents proudly and then Libby— immediately!
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:26:26 PM PDT
by
eleni121
(+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
To: HAL9000
“With that, the Senate got back down to business and completed the education bill in the wee hours of Friday morning.”
.
Conclusion...Senate accomplishes nothing other than making government “grab-bag” bigger, thus creating more government theft, paid for by...you guessed it, Joe Taxpayer.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:26:41 PM PDT
by
PEACE ENFORCER
(The U.S. Constitution has been Reduced to a Meaningless Document.)
To: ping jockey
No, it’s the Constitution.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:26:50 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: ping jockey
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.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:27:12 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:29:14 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
To: dead
It was an unvote by an uncongress. Who voted for it before they voted against it?
To: HAL9000
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.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:29:37 PM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
To: gov_bean_ counter
Every day the Senate is looking more and more like a Monty Python skit and less like a governing body.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:31:29 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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