Remember when candidate Bush openly mocked a Texas prisoner he had just put to death? When he pursed his lips and squeaked "please don't kill me" in imitation of Karla Faye Tucker, who had appealed to Governor Bush for clemency? The same Karla Faye Tucker who became the first woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War? The repentant born-again Christian who spent 14 years on death row and didn't ask for a pardon, only clemency? The self-same Karla Faye Tucker who prompted tough guy law enforcement-loving George W. Bush to push back his Greenwich, Connecticut cowboy hat and spew: "It's tough stuff , but my job is to enforce the law." The same man who signed Karla Faye Tucker's death warrant?
This believer is rough justice just couldn't let Scooter Libby trade his fine pinstripes for those shabby prison clothes, could he? What was it he said, again? Oh yeah - "...I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive."
What a fraud. What a coward. What a shell of a man. What a non-President.
Spectators outside a Texas prison cheered when Karla Faye Tucker was executed. Law and order types to a soul, they approved of their no-mercy governor. No doubt those same people are sickened by his commutation of the sentence of a felon convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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