”Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today. President Bush has just sent exactly the wrong signal to the country and the world.” – former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.

For a moment, I really couldn’t believe it when I saw this flash on CNN at the gym yesterday afternoon. Then the weight of 6+ years of precedent kicked in and the surprise quickly passed. Of course, he did this. I don’t know whether it was just cronyism, the fear the Libby would talk, or some combination of the two, but this kind of thing is precisely what we should expect from Bush. Let’s just make sure that no more prosecutions of his cronies go to judge and jury before January of ’09.

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