Ann,
As a faithful reader of your column and books, I was not aware of the many inequities between the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to justice. Thank you. I also know it's been a tough week for you after the fallout from your comments of last Friday. Hang in there!

The Fellini-esque Farce that has become partisan prosecution has reached new highs in lows.

I am not sure what was worse: Libby being convicted, the jury basically saying that it was a trial by proxy of Rove and Cheney, that Russert’s good friend could not wait to get to the microphones (and Huffingtwoton’s blog) to tell of the experience, and, the words to describe him fail me, Good Ol’ Mr. Wilson, was ecstatic over the rendering that had abso-freaking-nothing to do with his harridan of a domestic partner.

In the “Where does he get his pants” department (a reference to his putatively enormous gonadature, based solely on his words and actions) Sen. Harry Reid stated that he hopes that the President does the right thing and refuse to pardon Libby.

I find that remarkable on any number of levels.

First, it is unlikely that Libby will face any jail time. The appellate judges are less swayed by bovine scatology than your basic jury. Second, it is humorous that with his land deals, money grabs and other litany of sins that Reid would have any aversion to a pardon, one, it is hoped, that he will someday need.

Richard Prior once said of the legal system and it’s treatment of Black’s: “If you want justice, go to the jails. That’s where you will find it, Just Us.”

Perhaps we can update that to refer to Republican’s and Conservatives.

God Bless and God Speed
John

Instead of pardoning Mr. Libby now, I think the case should continue through our court system. If President Bush issues a pardon now, Mr. Libby (and by inference, the Administration) will forever be viewed as guilty. If vindication is granted through the legal system, Mr. Libby's name and reputation will be cleared without taint to the White House.

Unpleasant, yes, but that's the reality.

Of course, a successful prosecution on the part of the Wilson's in their upcoming Civil trial and members of the Administration has the potential to change all that, at least as far as reputation and inferred guilt.

I just read an article stating that Mr. Libby is not eligible for pardon under DOJ guidelines. While President Bush has the option of ignoring those guidelines, he has never done so before and has stated as recently as last month that he believes they should be followed, which is why he has utilized Presidental Pardons so sparingly, and why he is unwilling to pardon those two Border Patrol agents (I can't remember their names) that are currently serving time for shooting an illegal alien.

oops, that should read: their upcoming civil trial AGAINST members of the Administration.

Grand slam, Ann!!!

When Bush was elected president and began his “new tone” rubbish, I knew we were in for it. It was just a matter of time.

All of this nonsense began on the first day of the Bush Administration when it was discovered that the Clinton Administration had trashed the White House upon leaving and President Bush covered it up and didn’t go after any one because of his “new tone”. President Bush should have “cleaned house” like every other administration does when he took office but he didn’t due to his “new tone” nonsense.

Note to President Bush: your “new tone” has failed miserably. Give it up already and begin the conservative fight for the remainder of your term. We’re more than ready.

Republicans, having been out of power for so long, were and still are absolutely clueless with regards to power and what to do with it when they get it.

Naïve conservative Republicans allow liberal Democrats to convince them to take the “moral high ground”, the “moral high road”, the “can’t we all just get along and share power” agenda whilst the liberal Democrats are scheming all along behind their backs and have no intention of ever getting along. Sound a bit like the Clinton Administration and the North Korean government (We have a signed agreement. But their still pursuing nukes you idiot!)?

Appeasement and power sharing doesn’t work with liberal Democrats. Not pursuing and prosecuting liberal Democrat law breakers in the hope they will see just how easy we are to get along with and that we mean them no harm DOES NOT WORK. Allowing liberal Democratic law breakers to go unpunished only emboldens them to break more laws and raise the law-breaking bar ever higher.

Yet, liberal Democrats try and convict conservative Republicans for the smallest of infractions.

Liberal Democrats are relentless, ruthless, opportunistic cheats and liars that will leap at any opportunity, no matter how miniscule, to destroy conservative Republicans. Conservative Republicans: GET THAT THROUGH YOUR OBVIOUSLY DENSE BRAINS!

Liberal Democrats do not care whose life they ruin so long as they get what they want. They don’t care if the person is completely innocent. If they can ruin someone to get or preserve their power, especially if it’s a conservative Republican, they will not hold back.

With the conviction of Scooter Libby, conservative Republican politicians, now completely scared to death of liberal Democrats, are going to retreat in droves with their tails between their legs. They are a pack of pansies (wimps – for those that may not understand the use of the word) that refuse to stand up and fight for conservative Republican principles, the US Constitution, our laws, our institutions, right versus wrong, and other conservative Republican citizens.

And to all those conservative Republican voters that either sat out this past election or pulled the lever for a liberal Democrat scumbag: are you happy now? Are you getting what you wanted by not participating or by voting for liberal Democrat elites?

This is what you get when you allow liberal Democrats to infiltrate and take over our schools, our air waves, our print media and our judicial system.

As for liberal Democrats calling on President Bush to not pardon Libby; this is a set up for a possible campaign issue should Bush pardon Libby upon leaving office in retaliation for the Clinton pardoning Marc Rich uproar at the end of his term.

And, what's with this journalist juror who knew several of the witnesses and is going to write a book about the trial?

Think he had a pre-determined agenda?

Think he weighed the case solely upon the evidence and was unbiased?

I don't think his book would sell very well or be very interesting had the verdict been "Not Guilty". To me he sounds like a liberal Democrat mole out to get anyone in the Bush Administration.

Thanks Miss Coulter. Look at how lucrative political office is. It is a magnet for every crook willing to destroy the United States to help themselves. The Democrat party is where most of them make their home.

More power to you Ms. Colter. How true Democrats can say what ever they want about anyone and they get a free pass from the Liberal Media. But how dare a Republican even hint at something about a Democrat and they are chased out of town with Tar and Feathers with the help of the same Media. Please keep on writting the Truth and know you do have supporters out here.

Well said.

when I was a baby private standing in the rain learning to guard a chemical weapons dump in Tacoma, a Spec4 with O college credits alid it out for me thusly:
"You dont guard something thinking someone "might" come steal it, you guard knowing the someone IS coming to steal it."
there's a difference but I guess our RINO quisling man tans dont grasp complexities of that nature.
I was told it was cynical to believe that one gets the government one deserves..

I learned that if you don't like whats on the radio you start a band, we conservatives would do better to support and defend each other's efforts and take power back from these clowns, but alas its so much easier to be a startlingly beautiful blond that to be a congresswoman.

Your point is taken regarding Republicans vs. Democrats and the double standard. I am saddened that those who see the discrepancies can not get the point across to those who can not or will not admit to their existence. We are not making our voices heard outside the choir room.

Even among the conservative and Republicans (very different animals) there are few who realize what is really happening in this country. If they think George W. Bush is on their side, they are sadly mistaken. I wonder who pulls his strings. If they think their Senators and Representatives are on their sides, they are sadly mistaken. I wonder who pulls their strings.

And if they think they control their life, I wonder who pulls their strings.

Your point is taken regarding Republicans vs. Democrats and the double standard. I am saddened that those who see the discrepancies can not get the point across to those who can not or will not admit to their existence. We are not making our voices heard outside the choir room.

Even among the conservative and Republicans (very different animals) there are few who realize what is really happening in this country. If they think George W. Bush is on their side, they are sadly mistaken. I wonder who pulls his strings. If they think their Senators and Representatives are on their sides, they are sadly mistaken. I wonder who pulls their strings.

And if they think they control their life, I wonder who pulls their strings.

When you want the facts and not the 'spin', read Ann Coulter's column. ANOTHER GREAT JOB.
BTW : just read the transcript of your interview with Hannity/Colmes/Stoddard? regharding the 6 letter 'f' word and Ms (oops) Mr. J. Edwards. DAMN GOOD SHOW and please never back off = we've had enough of this "goody two shoes" crap from the Democrats.

Thanks Ann...once again, you addressed "the facts" - something the MSM seems to have forgotten. Keep up the good work!

It is so hard to believe that AMERICANS will continue to elect officials who have shown time and again that they are NOT FIT TO SERVE! Whether it is TK leaving MaryJo submerged while he swam to safety, JK talking to North Vietnam during wartime or BF's boyfriend running a male prostitute ring out of his apartment, etc etc I am led to believe there are not many thinking voters left in the commonwealth of Massachusetts!

Re: "Mr. Author" - if Libby's lawyers had no more options to use to keep him off the jury, the judge most definitely should have used his! It is quite apparent to the "unwashed/uneducated" common men/women that this fellow alone should be grounds for further legal action. Talk about having a "hidden" agenda!!

The bias is so blatant between the coverage and prosecution of wrongdoings by Democrats and Republicans that it literally makes me sick! And then "they" wonder why the regular Joes or Janes of middle America mistrust the legal system!

It is a sad time indeed that "hate Bush/Cheney" supersedes everything in this country now. One day these two men will be out of office and it will be a monumental task for the new leaders of our country to regain its image.

There is of course a huge double standard of what the Democrats get away with and what the Conservatives are hounded after. If you are dangerous to their agenda...the pussy-liberals come after you with a vengeance. That's why they hate you so much Ann...and all they have to hound you about are the little dog bisquits you throw them like the recent comment about Edwards. I thought that was hysterical! Of course "faggot" is a school-yard term for wussy! Duh!

The other double standard is money. Those who have lots of money get different treatment than those of us who don't. If I did half the things that Paris Hilton has done, I'd have been thrown in the slammer a long time ago!

Ergo, if you have pussy-liberals with lots of money...they are virtually impregnable! As Ann so adroitly points out...they can get away with ANYTHING! Teddy got away with freakin' manslaughter! Me in the same situation would have been in the slammer for manslaughter. Tell me I'm wrong.

I blame the conservative leadership as much as I blame the pussy-liberals themselves...because the conservative leadership has been quivering purse-dogs for years now, emboldening the liberals every day...just like the liberals through their actions embolden the terrorists.

"...this is Captain America callin'. I held you up when you were down on your knees, so would you catch me now, I'm fallin'..."

Ziggy puts it right in the 10-ring. I find it hard to disagree with anything he mentions save one salient bit.

He talks about a ‘conservative leadership.” Now, being a middle-of-the-road kind of guy (my politics fall in the middle of Attila the Hun and Louis XIV) I do not see any real conservative leadership.

Sure, there are those who are Right thinking in all levels and branches of government but do we really have a leader?

The conservatives are sorta, kinda like the redheaded step-children of the Republican Party. And, we are treated as such.

When a true or at least close to true conservative steps up to the plate, embracing our views and values, either he is silenced or if his initiatives are entertained, they are amended, re-written or otherwise adulterated to the point that it is no longer recognizable as something “conservative.” Sadly, it is more often than not a Republican who is doing the damage in the interest or guise of “bi-partisanship.”

“Bi-partisanship” be damned.

Ziggy is right, the “quivering purse dogs” are as bad or worse than your garden variety Birkenstockistas. At least the lefties have an agenda to destroy our country, the apostates of the “Right” are too weak not only to stop them but also to proffer a better plan.

God Bless, God Speed, God Help Us All.
John

Ann, even though leftists brazenly brandish their obtuse lawlessness like a badge of honor, it's the timid cowardice of republicans that has come to really turn my stomach: to literally make me sick. I'll be glad when the entire republican party is voted out of office, as it thoroughly deserves to be for its ambitiously pursued failure to represent those who gave it its power in the first place.

We can defend ourselves from our leftist enemies. But how do we defend ourselves from our so-called republican "friends"?

I'm completely over the republican party. I've written to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan and told him that the republican party is a failure, and I know longer call myself a member of it, and I told him to stop asking me for money.

My feelings of betrayal are strong. Republicans controlled the executive and the congress. All republican and conservative constituents waited for the improvements we all believed our party stood for: smaller public sector, decreased taxes. Insead we get higher taxes, increased public sector growth, and a sick bonus: a private sector, drunk on its own greed; real estate brokers, drug companies, health care organizations, insurance firms, oil brokers, bankers, credit companies, all set completely free to suck the blood of those who once defended them.

The women, once held up as great correctors of social wrongs, have proven to be even more greedy and heartless than the men they once vilified for being greedy and heartless.

I've come to the conclusion that politicians are, by nature, hateful people who deserve nothing more than to be decently fed and decently shot. The issues they deal with are not complex, and anybody with a lick of common sense can handle them. But professional politicians are people who are trained to manipulate natural occurences toward a preferred result. In other words, they fiddle, jerk around, and turn relatively simple events into huge, complex problems without solutions. Nothing ever gets solved. Nothing changes for the better. The politicians just keep rigging the game to further their own wealth and interests.

So we need to start seeing the 2nd Amendment as a responsibility and not a mere right. We have a Constitutional duty to bear arms against our own public sector, remove its leaders from office by any means necessary, put the public sector back in accord with the the visions of those who designed it, and then take steps to forbid public office to anybody who wants it, giving such authority instead to those who have no personal use for said authority.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Florida Cane,

"I'm completely over the republican party."

Sounds like you've given up. And where will you go? To the liberal Democratic Party? Are you going to stop voting? Since you are obstinate about sticking to you story, what I'm going to write is probably not going to have any affect. You already sound like a liberal anyway.

"...and a sick bonus: a private sector, drunk on its own greed; real estate brokers, drug companies, health care organizations, insurance firms, oil brokers, bankers, credit companies, all set completely free to suck the blood of those who once defended them."

It sounds like you need a lesson in capitalism which is what makes this country great. America is only 200+ years old and look at where our economy and our standard of living are in comparison to every other nation. And, we are the lone super power to boot!

1. Companies are in business to make money - pure and simple. There is absolutely no reason to go into business to lose money.
2. Companies are NOT in business to give you, me or anyone else a job, provide health care benefits or any other perk.
3. Companies make money by creating a product that is in demand, then hiring employees to manufacture, market and deliver that product.
4. If the product is not in demand, companies go under and people lose their jobs - pure and simple.
5. If the government regulations or union contract restrictions are such that it is no longer profitable to make the product here in America, companies can and will move out of the United States in an effort to become profitable again or to increase their profits. Companies have an obligation to their shareholders.
6. If a product is made for $1.99 but the demand is such that people will pay $19.99 for it - guess what - you, me and everyone else will charge $19.99. There is nothing wrong with that.
7. If people can't afford a product, they either do without it or save until they can afford it. If enough people can't afford a product then the company lowers the price.

"We have a Constitutional duty to bear arms against our own public sector, remove its leaders from office by any means necessary, put the public sector back in accord with the the visions of those who designed it, and then take steps to forbid public office to anybody who wants it, giving such authority instead to those who have no personal use for said authority."

This is a loaded statement. Bearing arms against who - the Republicans, the liberal Democrats, or both? Are you talking another civil war here? Is that what you really want? That's when liberal Democrats would be all for the right to bear arms and would happily march off to war to kill those insurgent radical terrorists called conservative Republicans.

Our founding fathers never envisioned "career politicians" that have a primary goal of obtaining power and keeping it. The politicians of their day had regular full time jobs and didn't make their money off of government (i.e., taxes). Our politicians' goal in life is to get elected and stay elected. Look at that drunken SOB Ted Kennedy and the clowns in Massachusetts that keep electing him.

You are free to stick to your story if you'd like but you haven't really thought through your arguments and have a lack of understanding in some regards.

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