He is smirking because he knows that no matter what he does, after all the posturing and babbling, if he stamps his little foot, Sen. Reid and the rest of his party will roll on their backs, piss on themselves, and do his bidding. I give you the FISA debacle as exhibit A.

how right you are, he does have reason for his idiotic smirks … but Republicans bashing comes a little short of what was actually happening here.
let me make this clear: i not only live in Europe, i am also far left from the US Democrats (but just as far from being a communist). now what happened? the bill passed 60:28 after “The Senate bowed to White House pressure” (Washpost online today). excuse me, please? what pressure? ah, yeah, they are in a hurry to get their asses out under the sun! only human? no, ladies and gents, that’s OUTRAGEOUS! so, what’s all that bla bla since the Dems have held both houses (but obviously don’t dominate them).
what America seems desperately to be in need of is more choice, choice in form, maybe, a 3rd party or a 4th and so on. but a 3rd would already be a good beginning.
i’m sorry, i needed to say this.

How about this for a meme: Bush has lost HIS war, and yet he’s still putting our troops in harm’s way. Don’t let them die for Bush’s dream.

Bush is just a symptom of the bigger problem as to what is so wrong with our country that we could have elected Bush to two terms, againt fifth rate opposition the likes of Gore and Kerry, and now we face the prospect of 8 more years of the Clintons who bear some significant responsiblity for the election of Bush.

I find the notions advanced that Bush stole elections and there is nothing otherwise wrong here to be really scary. The Clintons with their sleazy allignments with Murdoch stylists and their personal advancement at all costs is really troubling. Sure Gore and Kerry might not have screwed up Iraq. And Stephen Breyer is better that Alito, but our country needs a lot more than these liberal cosmetics.

lhp was kicking the thought that the criminals can still be charged after they leave office if there’s no impeachment.

I’d love to see what would happen if they were prosecuted by Attorney General Fitzpatrick or Whitehouse.

They can…but not if they are pardoned for the criminal offenses by the President.

US Constitution. Article 1.

Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.

So, while an individual is subject to further criminal charges after impeachment, a pardon would nonetheless block this…whether it came BEFORE or AFTER the impeachment.

I don’t like to say it…but the idea that one can prosecute criminally individuals if Bush grants them a pardon is likely not possible under the Constitution. Pardons immunize the individual from indictment, trial, conviction and punishment “under law”.

After he’s out of the WH, I should think it would be criminal proceedings, not impeachment.

The real trick right now is that he could pardon folks before leaving office, which renders those folks immune to prosecution..which basically means then they don’t rat on him. This doesn’t apply to impeached officials, so we need to impeach Gonzales NOW.

Impeachment doesn’t block a President from pardoning an individual for criminal acts. The processes of criminal and impeachment are separable. Impeachment deals with removal from office and denying the holding of any future office of “honor, trust, and profit” under the United States. It cannot do anything more than THAT.

You’re making a prediction whose probability of occurrence is less than 1.

So Mr. Bush (he’s not my President)has stood face to face with our enemies, and witnessed their “cold-blooded-killer tactics.” Spoken like a kid at summer camp.

Why DON’T these gray-headed guys sign up? What’s stopping them? They could continue to broadcast from “Inside the Green Zone.” Wouldn’t that be fun????

And then my son could come home.

I am hoping that since the Chief Executive Smirker is once again giving me an ulcer, that you consider running “Why Is This Man Smirking, Part 2?” with the same photo and the following story from what used to be considered a parody website, but now approaches the MSM in credibility:

There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity