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Originally Posted by Steve Awesome
I think Bush is trying to find out just how low his approval rating can go. Typically a president does all his pardons on the last day of office as close to a Friday when nobody will notice. This fucker has 1.5 years left basically. Nice.
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It wasn't a pardon it was a commuting of sentence, and, he did it now because they were not going to allow Libby to delay starting his jail time. He can still pardon him when he leaves, which I am sure he will do.