Bush should call Reid's bluff and agree. "Unlike my predecessor, I do not issue presidential pardons to anyone who is not deserving of one. Unlike my predecessor, I respect this special prosecutor and have consistently ordered everyone in my Administration to cooperate fully with him and refrain from any attacks on him or any witnesses in the investigation. I believe Mr. Fitzgerald has conducted a fair and impartial investigation and I believe the justice system should be allowed to take its course from here. All defendants are presumed innocent and have a right to persue exoneration in court, but if they are proven guilty by a jury they must accept that verdict and whatever penalties ensue. I have no intention of pardoning anyone involved in this investigation."
Can you see Reid's head exploding?
Nah, that's acknowledging that there has been an offense to talk about pardoning for.
The president should not even deign to comment on the proposal, proving once again that Reid's blather isn't worth listening to. Then, when the MSM inevitably asks about it in a press conference, the answer should run along the lines of "Are you proposing that we abandon our system of jurisprudence? No one has been convicted of anything yet, therefore there is nothing to pardon. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?"
Either that, or he should say "Will Reid pledge to stop beating his wife?"