"The whiny wailing and rending of garments (mostly bow ties) by the True Cons over President Trump pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio brings to mind another president’s choice when a loyal supporter was the victim of a liberal witch hunt.
President Bush was an honorable man, but the way he allowed Scooter Libby and the Libby family to be ruined and impoverished over what everyone knew was a skeevy liberal political vendetta before issuing a partial commutation is to W’s lasting shame.His excuse: the Rule of Law or something.
But, as anyone willing to see knows, today the Rule of Law is a unicorn and it has been for a long time.
I like the Rule of Law, and I’ve been warning for years about what happens when it goes away.
Yet we are where we are, whether we like it or not.
We’re in a land where the law is only intermittently and selectively applicable.
Allowing allies to suffer in an effort to pretend that all is well is not going to bring the Rule of Law back.
Nostalgia for the Rule of Law no excuse for tolerating an injustice to an ally.
Hell, undoing injustices is what the pardon power is for..."
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