President Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case.
So the very crime that Republicans felt was reason enough to impeach Bill Clinton is not enough to make Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff serve a sentence that he was given by our judicial system.
Hypocrisy rules the Republican party, and George Bush has shown himself to be a man sympathetic with criminals so long as they were busted doing his bidding.
P.S. Barack Obama is the first of the Democratic Presidential hopefusl to respond.
"This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an Administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law. This is exactly the kind of politics we must change so we can begin restoring the American people's faith in a government that puts the country's progress ahead of the bitter partisanship of recent years."
I could not agree more.
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