I support the idea of Mr. Bush committing himself to not pardon Lewis Libby if Mr. Libby is convicted. Wanting to let Mr. Bush himself know how I feel, I tried to email him, using 'president@whitehouse.gov', which I have used before. It seems that this email @ is no longer active, and now email contact is only available through 'comments@whitehouse.gov'.

Perhaps, lately, emails have been becoming more and more shrill and unvaforable, and this was done to protect the President's sensitive feelings (assuming he read any of his emails in the first place (assuming he reads anything ever)).

JRR

Just raising the issue of the pardon was smart for the Democrats, because it puts Bush in a corner no matter what he does. The longer he doesn't send a wink to Libby about it, the more pressure is on him to roll on his co-conspirators, likely the Vice (or Assistant) President of the United States. And the longer he doesn't commit to NOT pardoning, the more sleazy they all look. And if he does pardon him, that is bad, too -- so bad that I don't think his party will support it because of its potential effect on the 2006 election. A lot of people think it was Ford's pardon of Nixon that cost him the 1976 election.

It has been a long time since Democrats really had their act together. Perhaps at last they do. Meanwhile, a lot of Republican chickens are coming home to roost. What a wonderful year it could be.

Yes, Bush is a liar. But the tactic and the

demand is a good one. Force Bush to set himself

up now to be caught in such a brazen simple lie

later that his worshipful supporters get seriously

bummed out. Also, if he says "no pardon", Libby

might not be able to be sure in advance that Bush

is lying, and might feel pressured to play ball

with Fitzgerald.

We should all be staying in touch with our

Democratic Sens and Reps to "second that emotion."

How can this be anything but a win-win situation for the Democrats? If Bush refuses to rule out a pardon he comes off looking like the weasel that he is. If he does agree to rule out a pardon then we'll have the tasty prospect of Scooter's trial (and we'll hear all about how the White House is inhabited by a whole pack of weasels). And if Bush agrees to rule out a pardon and then reneges, then maybe even his die-hard supporters and the MSM will stop making excuses and looking the other way. The only dark cloud? Scooter doesn't get a pardon but he decides to fall on his sword (plead guilty)like a good little weasel, thereby depriving us all of opportunity to see Dick Cheney take the witness stand.

Bush isn't a man of his word, as evidenced by the fact that he constantly changes his story on firing Karl Rove. He could offer some weak promise to stay out of the CIA leak affairs, that he would respect the process, blah blah blah -- but then he'll just pardon the whole lot of them in the "interest of the country."

Bush is a liar. Don't believe anything he says.