Liberals Are Sharpening The Blades Of Their Guillotines

Amazing how quickly the rally cries from the Left of “Change We Can Believe In,” have been replaced with “Let their heads roll!” Like the Left-leaning mobs of the French Revolution, the “Obamamanics” have gathered their pitchforks and are preparing to storm the “Capital.”

The hate and unjustified angry from the Left will never go away. The election of Barrack Obama has only served to embolden many Liberals in their belief that they can now act out their delusional agenda, and in the process put America through an unnecessary “act of redemption.“ Too many on the Left actually believe the lies they have been spewing about the current administration, they are prepared to tear this country apart for their own selfish motives.

In what is shaping up to be the 21st Century equivalent to the Salem Witch-hunt’s, the Left wants the head of President Bush on a platter, along with many of his senior advisors. Their hysterical dissent is being fueled by partisan legislators such as Senator Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin.

I received two E-mails and read a local editorial, all with similar themes, that President George Bush’s departure is not enough, that false retribution is DEMANDED!

An E-mail being distributed by www.deomcrats.com and www.afterdowningstreet.com

Nadler Introduces Resolution Opposing Possible Bush Pardons of His Own Subordinates for Crimes He Authorized

Here's a resolution, hot off the presses from Jerrold Nadler, Chair of the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee: H.RES.1531, "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President of the United States should not issue pardons to senior members of his administration during the final 90 days of his term of office," Sponsor: Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] (introduced 11/20/2008). There is a petition promoting this resolution, through which you can write to your representative and senators at http://democrats.com/nadler-pardons

Senator Russ Feingold editorialized against these possible pardons at Salon.com yesterday; please urge him to introduce in the Senate the same resolution that Nadler has in the House.

Never before has a president pardoned himself or his subordinates for crimes he authorized. The idea that the pardon power constitutionally includes such pardons ignores a thousand year tradition in which no man can sit in judgment of himself, and the fact that James Madison and George Mason argued that the reason we needed the impeachment power was that a president might some day try to pardon someone for a crime that he himself was involved in. The problem is not preemptive pardons of people not yet tried and convicted. The problem is not blanket pardons of unnamed masses of people. Both of those types of pardons have been issued in the past and have their appropriate place. The problem is the complete elimination of any semblance of the rule of law by pardoning one's own subordinates for crimes you instructed them to commit.

Yes, of course, there's something absurd about knowing that a president authorized crimes, not impeaching him, not prosecuting him, not proposing any action with any teeth at all, but formally objecting to the idea of him issuing pardons of his own subordinates for crimes he authorized. But this is where we are. State, local, civil, foreign, and international prosecutions are likely ways of holding Bush, Cheney, and gang accountable, and pardons can't interfere with them. Pardons can't interfere with impeachment. But if we allow these pardons, we not only guarantee no federal prosecutions, and not only give Congress an excuse to drop its investigations, but we also establish the precedent that from here on out any president can violate any law and then pardon the crime. This is simply to end the idea of law. We cannot allow that.

We need to work with Congressman Nadler and Senator Feingold to promote awareness of what is wrong with self-pardons. In this way we can prepare the American public for the appropriate response when the pardons come. The appropriate response will be to demand:

1. Immediate impeachment of Bush and Cheney, even if they are out of office.

2. Overturning of the pardons, as Bush's lawyers told him he could do to Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, which was a far more minor abuse of the pardon power.

3. Legislation banning self-pardons and pardons of crimes authorized by the president.

4. A Constitutional Amendment banning self-pardons and pardons of crimes authorized by the president.

5. Prosecution of Bush, Cheney, and their subordinates for their crimes.

From the Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH

Impeach Bush for harm he has done the nation
Nov. 19 — To the Editor:

We have lived with Bush for two terms and he has bankrupted our Treasury, killed and maimed our own soldiers, along with destroying Iraq and killing women and children. He has destroyed our image throughout the world, caused rifts between both parties, lied to the American people — that led us into war in both Iraq and Afghanistan — tortured and held prisoners at Gitmo against the Geneva Convention and our Constitution.

Outed a CIA agent and has led our country into a deep recession and God knows another Depression. All of this and more while he basked in luxury at the White House playing president and now wants to pardon all those involved or connected with torturing — including himself. If I walk across the street on a green light I can be arrested for jaywalking, and he can just walk away from all the harm he has done to everyone in the United States. I say, "no way — impeach him!"

Frederick Glynn York Harbor, Maine

Many on the Left, like Glynn, are nothing more than self-loafing sycophants who are determined to rip this country apart in their belief that their actions are serving to unify us. Sadly all that I can say to those on the Left who are committed to this course of action is “They Have Eyes, But They Cannot See.”