Andrew McCarthy via Instapundit:
The degree to which Obama has wielded executive power in favor of America’s enemies and against his own political opponents and scapegoats is breathtaking. The treasonous Manning gets an 80 percent shave off his sentence. Now we learn Oscar Lopez-Rivera, an unrepentant FALN terrorist convicted of waging war against the United States, has also had his sentence commuted. Taliban commanders are released, replenishing our jihadist enemies even as they continue prosecuting a terrorist war against our troops and allies, in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, a deserter who may, at least indirectly, have caused the deaths of American soldiers. Iran is enriched and empowered with tens of billions of dollars – including ransom cash – and a mammoth nuclear energy program (with the certainty that it will yield a nuclear weapons stockpile) even as it remains the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism calling for “death to America.”
But if you are Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative Obama critic, the Justice Department inflates an administrative violation into multiple felonies and aggressively advocates (thankfully, without success) for a stiff prison sentence. If you are a tea party group gearing up to fight Obama’s re-election, here comes the IRS. If you are “anti-Muslim video producer” Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and Obama needs a scapegoat for his derelictions in Benghazi, you end up in the slammer. If you are a deep-pocketed financial institution that Obama wants to make the culprit for the government-driven financial meltdown, or to raid so the radical left’s legion of “community organizers” can be funded, prepare to pony up a 9- or 10-figure “settlement.” If you are a police department, be ready to be scandalized as a practitioner of racially malicious enforcement. If you are Israel, brace for the “international outlaw” smear.
This tilt in favor of America’s avowed enemies and the abuse of State Power to punish domestic dissenters has been a recurring theme throughout his presidency. So the question is, do Obama’s fan-boys in the media, academia, and elsewhere refuse to see this, or are they on-board with it?
The guy lays out a very good argument for charges of treason to be brought against him. It makes you wonder if that could then be used to reverse some of these commutations and pardons.
@ Craig Smith: The real question is, would the Republicans be willing to do it? I’m thinking the answer is “no.”
I second Craig Smith. The present Republican “leader”ship would fit nicely into Shakespeare’s “lily livered patch” category.
My understanding is that pardons and commutations can not be undone.
On the other hand, although I think Manning should have been shot (or is that too honorable a method of execution?), as a felon with a dishonorable discharge, he/she had better hope that people with lots of money will be generous for political reasons. The terrorist may well do other conspiracies and can get picked up for those fresh crimes (if he does them). I’ll bet he’ll be closely watched.
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