Get ready for mass pardons
Get ready for the long-held precedents of American law to be ultimately if belatedly upheld as spurious claims of executive privilege, to be be rejected even by some conservative justices of the Supreme Court.
Get ready for a long-overdue debate that has barely begun and will be triggered by the mass pardons that will be the last sorry act of the presidency of George W. Bush.
Because it will be legally almost impossible to issue mass pardons so sweeping and universal they would cover every possible offense, get ready for the words “statute of limitations” to enter our public dialogue by January of 2009 as a new president assumes office and the Bush years, finally, are over.</em>
Makes ya throw up just a bit don’t it? But what’s to stop him from pardoning anyone remotely connected to the dozens of scandals, power grabs and treasonous leakings of classified information? What’s to stop him from pardoning himself?
Public opinion? Ha.
Congress? Double ha.
