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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: dead
You gotta love the AP.
They couldn’t say Clinton pardoned terrorists if their life depended on it.
They called them a Puerto Rican nationalist group, not what they were, terrorists.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:31:39 PM PDT
by
JRochelle
(Vacant Lott needs to be evicted from the Senate.)
To: HAL9000
Funny, I don’t recall the Senate telling Clinton not to pardon terrorists, thieves and thugs. It seems to me that Bush commuting one person’s sentence (Libby) for whom the fundemental investigation could discover no perpetrators is not a big deal.
When a judge dismisses the lawsuit of the alleged “victim” because there was no “there” there, it is appropriate for Bush to commute or even pardon Libby.
Reid and the rest of the defeatocrat-run Senate need something more to occupy their time than a 100% full court press of BDS.
42
posted on
07/20/2007 1:31:47 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: HAL9000
We have entered a new political age: The Political Theatre of the Absurd
43
posted on
07/20/2007 1:32:12 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq -- via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: HAL9000
Meanwhile, Bush told the Senate to mind their own bidness.
44
posted on
07/20/2007 1:33:58 PM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: mware
I recall a number of stories during the Reagan era about 'critters changing their remarks in the Congo Record.
Changing a recorded "vote" is a new one, though.
To: Suzy Quzy
That would certainly jerk a knot in the tail of the party of jackasses.
46
posted on
07/20/2007 1:35:35 PM PDT
by
HawaiianGecko
(Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.)
To: HAL9000
I wasn’t aware that the congress had any say in matters of presidential pardons.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:38:55 PM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(An American Patriot and an anti-Islam kind of fellow. (POI))
To: HAL9000
courtly ambiance?
Seems like the senate suffers some serious case of beltway disease (aka upward crania rectal insertion syndrome)
They are not there to be courtly and elitist, they are there as EMPLOYEES.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:40:09 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Calvin Locke
I know they can strike comments from the record, but never heard of this kind of thing happening.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:41:26 PM PDT
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: Suzy Quzy
Best comment I can remember seeing on FR.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:43:14 PM PDT
by
MarkT
To: Graymatter
Do a little background reading on John Hostettler (R-IN)
To: Suzy Quzy
Or Acting President Cheney could order the strike on Iran.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:46:12 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(The LDS problem that Romney is facing is not his religion, but his Lacking Decisive Stands.)
To: HAL9000
That's because senators agreed less than an hour later to undo their vote and pretend it had never happened.LOL I do believe this Congress is the closest to a circus I've ever seen. Nancy already looks pretty much like a clown. She just needs the big shoes.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:47:56 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: 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." ROFLMAO. Congress Malfeasance #38: Overstepping into Presidential powers.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:48:31 PM PDT
by
WOSG
( Don't tell me what you are against, tell me what you are FOR.)
To: gov_bean_ counter
The US Senate is a “sewer”. They have listened to their own “BS” so long that they beleive it to be true.
To: HAL9000
Well, if the Senate forbids it, I suspect Bush will do it.
To: FoxInSocks
I happened to catch the floor action last night. It was a thing of beauty. McConnell made ole’Harry look like such an idiot. I just got in when the Salazar resolution was being voted on, and failed. Mitch got up and introduce his and let the clerk read the entire resolution. I don’t think it included all of the last minute pardons, but get the juicy ones. Mark Rich, all of the pardons that were represented by Clinton’s brother in law, Hugh Rodamn. Drug dealers, racketeers, smugglers, you name it. It was all read into the proceedings. Harry was taking gas but the cameras would not show it. :-) Before the vote, Harry conceded and agreed that the Salazar vote and resolution would be vacated. It was also vacated by the MSM, as far as I can tell, not a peep from them.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:54:40 PM PDT
by
casino66
("We'll succeed," Bush added, "unless we quit.")
To: HAL9000
“Senate tells Bush not to pardon Libby”
OR WHAT?
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:55:24 PM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Wouldn’t it be music to our ears to hear the Iranian mullahs shouting “Incoming!”?)
To: conservativehusker
“If I were Bush Id pardon him today!”
In a ceremony on the capital steps.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:56:37 PM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Wouldn’t it be music to our ears to hear the Iranian mullahs shouting “Incoming!”?)
To: conservativehusker
It amazing how Clinton’s unprecedented abuse of his pardon powers raised hardly an eyebrow.....
Bush should definitely Pardon scooter before he leaves office. The whole Plamegate fiasco was a political witch hunt from start to finish.
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posted on
07/20/2007 1:56:42 PM PDT
by
Mad_as_heck
(The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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