I can’t stop thinking about why in the world the GOP wants to keep Clinton around. From an outsider’s perspective, I get the sense the GOP needs Clinton around to divert attention from their own president’s controversial tax-cut measures or his stance on allocating taxpayer money to religious groups.
President Bush knows his first 100 days in the White House are going to be judged on how he got nothing accomplished because he couldn’t steal the front page away from the man who wouldn’t disappear on his Inauguration Day.
I wasn’t alive in 1974 when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. But I do know from history books this wasn’t a popular decision among the American public.
The situation with Bill Clinton’s pardons falls into the same category. It is hoped that members of Congress, the media and especially the American public can rely on their history classes to point out that the U.S. Constitution gives the right of absolute pardons to the president of the United States. Case closed.
