Word: pardon
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...screwing up, and Hillary can’t watch him do it without somehow aiding and abetting and then trying to make up for it with such phoniness that only Barney Frank is fooled. Her latest endeavor was to support a bill that sets limits on lobbying for presidential pardon. This is absurdity in such a pure state that nobody except the New York Post has even bothered to touch it, instead choosing to marvel at such a rare gem with Bill O’Reilly-esque glee...
...occasionally, and shows off a framed TIME cover of McCain inscribed "To my dear friend." Yet he has authored a rival bill that has emerged as the favorite disguise for those who want to look like reformers while leaving the system porous enough for Denise Rich to drive a pardon through. Hagel's proposal does not ban soft-money contributions but simply caps them at $120,000 per two-year cycle, though critics calculate that wealthy folks could still give half a million dollars. When I ask McCain why he can't talk some sense into his brother-in-arms...
Margaret Carlson noted that Hillary Clinton may escape from the pardon mess unscathed but it could be at the cost of confirming that "being a Senator is more important than being a sister" [PUBLIC EYE, March 5]. I have four great brothers. But if one of them were the freeloading ass that Hughie Rodham appears to be, I'd have cut the big-sister apron strings long ago. Too bad Hillary didn't take a firmer stand while her brother was staying at the White House. Perhaps if she had limited Hughie's access to the President, she wouldn...
...there no demand that Presidents--and Governors--be denied the power to pardon, which is so obviously open to abuse? Clinton's pardons may have been the worst, but they were hardly the first to be controversial. The power to pardon assumes that due process will fail and that Presidents and Governors will have the wisdom and good conscience to remedy its failures. The sad truth is that these officials are cut from the same cloth as the rest of us. BOB HILTON Iowa City...
...balance, I am very satisfied with the judgment of former President Clinton in granting a pardon to fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. This controversy demonstrates that the person who holds the office of President is one of the few people who aren't caught up in legal and political minutiae and thus can see the bigger picture. The postelection hassles show how much the conservatives need Clinton as a whipping boy. Without him, they will have to accept responsibility for governing now that they have the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate and the House of Representatives. LEON F. DROZD...