It's Good to be King

I don't know about you, but in my humble opinion it's long since time to begin the impeachment of King George.

Yesterday's commutation of Scooter Libby was clearly for no other reasonable purpose than protecting his own administration from criminal and impeachment investigations.

The Bush Administration has proved yet again its utter contempt for the rule of law and the Judiciary branch of government in commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby.

President Bush has repeatedly demonstrated that he believes himself to be an absolute monarch who has no need for judges, juries, laws or trials.

He has no problem, when it suits him, to seize people - even American citizens - without a trial, a judge, or a jury and hold them indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of their natural lives in his own royal dungeon in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

He has no problem, when it suits him, to have people tortured in his dungeons around the world in violation of their most basic human rights.

He has no problem, when it suits him, to ignore the legal requirement to obtain a warrant before conducting a wiretap of an American citizen or even thousands upon thousands of law abiding American citizens.

Yesterday it suited him to commute the Federal prison sentence of one I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and he did so despite the fact that he rarely, even for a chief executive, has done so in the past and that the overwhelming majority of Americans disapprove of this commutation.

In effect, President Bush has said, I don't care about the evidence, I don't what you 12 citizens believed, and I don't care what the courts and the judges decide - I'm the King and it only matters what I decide.

I guess as Mel Brooks once said "It's good to be the King"..

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