Oh, puh-l-e-e-e-e-eze, of COURSE Libby's clemency was politically timed for maximum advantage

just like my previous post, should this be in the least surprising...? c'mon... i don't think it was ed gillespie... i think it was karl rove... karl rove is still firmly ensconced in the white house, still spinning his evil webs of dark political manipulation... why WOULDN'T something like this issue from his dark, dark mind...?

This morning, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol — who accurately predicted the President’s decision to commute Libby’s sentence — suggested the order was timed to provide political cover for the decision by attacking President Clinton.

“Here’s why the president acted the way he did. He knew Bill Clinton was joining Hillary in Iowa on July 4th. No, I’m serious,” Kristol said. “So on July 2d, Ed Gillespie, who’s a very canny Republican operator, said, Let’s pardon Libby. Clinton will rise to the bait, and we could spend the last half of the week debating the unbelievable Clinton pardons against the defensible Bush pardon.”

Kristol concluded, “I regard this as an extremely clever Machiavellian move by the president. It cheers me up about the Bush White House, and I’m really heartened.”

what kristol is "heartened" about is that the dark arts are still emanating from the white house...

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