- "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ..."
Declaration of Independence
signed July 4, 1776
Too often in the course of human events the Bush administration presents Americans and the world a perplexing view of the institutional health of this 231-year-old experiment in self-government.
The president's jail
sentence commutation for White House aide Scooter Libby arrives just in time to inject a dose of cynicism into what Americans prefer to keep as a day of celebration and optimism for a great nation. But we find that White House staffers apparently are more equal than the rest of us who might be convicted of obstructing justice in a leak involving the CIA.
But what else can we expect from an administration where Libby's benefactor, the vice president, asserts he is not part of the executive branch?
Already under a cloud for replacing competent U.S. attorneys in order to influence the political landscape, the president now shows he is ready to short-circuit the justice system on the back end by deciding a federal judge — one of Bush's first judicial appointments as president — didn't get Libby's sentencing right.
There's more in the article
This is just one of many editorials/comments on this issue, but the theme is the same. We have a president that promised to bring to justice anyone who was involved in the Valery Plane case. From his actions, loyalty to his Administration trumps his promise. Lying to a Grand Jury and all other charges Libby was CONVICTED for are not applicable. Fellow Americans, heed this example of Bush "ethics." And this dim-wit seems not to see this is an example of why his stats are in the toilet, then again, he may not care what the American people think.
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