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Pelosi: Investigate, Prosecute Bush, and roll back his tax cuts.
Good to see someone remember they’re Democrats.
I guess when you’re riding a popularity wave as strong as this, it’s time to hang ten. Beyond the fact that Obama’s leadership rates as high as Bush’s inflated numbers right after 9/11, the contrast with Bush now is stark as he has sunk to an all time low and has been there for a couple of years.
As the principle driver of Obama’s legislative agenda, Pelosi is in a great position to stab at the heart of the conservative cabal that ran this country like a mafia fiefdom. She can take risks Obama won’t, lest he lose his mandate — which in turn will feed Pelosi’s success. It’s an interesting dance.
Bottom line though, the conservatives have “emboldened” their worst enemy, a liberal Congress with populist backing.
That said, here come the pardons…as handicapped by Politico.com:
Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Cheney, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr.: 1 to 2
Former junk bond king Michael Milken: 2 to 1
Former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean: 3 to 1
Military and CIA interrogators of war-on-terror prisoners: 4 to 1
Former Justice Department official Bradley Schlozman: 4 to 1
Former Governor George Ryan (R-Ill.): 4 to 1
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: 5 to 1
Former American Israel Public Affairs Committee Lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman (10 to 1), Former Pentagon Analyst Lawrence Franklin (20 to 1)
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard: 20 to 1
Randall “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.): 50 to 1
So far we got Ramos and Compean, sentence commuted, no pardon.
Yeah, and I read where that may be all she wrote, although you never know until noon on Jan. 20.