Pardon Me

I mean why not? Baby Doc is soon going to start slinging the presidential pardons around like Van Helsing with a bucket of holy water at a vampire convention. Eventually everyone in the Baby Doc Bush Maladministration will get one, from Dick(less) Cheney all the way down to the guy who cleaned Shooter's shotgun.

Why shouldn't I get one of those blanket pardons along with everyone else? It's not like I don't deserve it as much as those people.

What's that you say? I didn't commit enough serious felonies? I didn't torture anyone? I didn't subvert the US Constitution under the guise of "just following orders"? I didn't cough up a sufficient amount of cash to keep the BFEE afloat for eight years?

Oh. I guess I won't be getting any of that pardoning action myself, then. Okay, fine.

But you and I can do something to put the brakes on it. There's a petition to your congressional representatives that you can sign and put them on notice:

Dear Representative,
I urge you to co-sponsor Rep. Jerrold Nadler's H. Res. 1531 urging President Bush not to pardon senior members of his administration for crimes authorized by the President - and to investigate those crimes both in the House and the Justice Department, and prosecute if warranted.
(1) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the granting of preemptive pardons by the President to senior officials of his administration for acts they may have taken in the course of their official duties is a dangerous abuse of the pardon power;
(2) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should not grant preemptive pardons to senior officials in his administration for acts they may have taken in the course of their official duties;
(3) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that James Madison was correct in his observation that "[i]f the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds [to] believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty";
(4) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that a special investigative commission, or a Select Committee be tasked with investigating possible illegal activities by senior officials of the administration of President George W. Bush, including, if necessary, any abuse of the President's pardon power; and
(5) the next Attorney General of the United States appoint an independent counsel to investigate, and, where appropriate, prosecute illegal acts by senior officials of the administration of President George W. Bush.
Sincerely,

Go on over to Democrats.com and sign the petition.

Even though I have a sinking feeling that it probably won't do any good, I signed it anyway, just to be on record that I oppose those impending presidential pardons.