You listen:
a reporter asked Tony Snow during a press briefing, "If there are more than 3,000 current petitions for commutation -- not pardons, but commutation -- in the federal system, under President Bush, will all 3,000 of those be held to the same standard that the president applied to Scooter Libby?"
Snow replied, "I don't know."
In other words, the White House press secretary isn't sure whether there's one standard of criminal justice for the president's friends, and another for everyone else. Maybe he can find out and get back to us? I'm sure there are thousands of American convicts and their families who would love to know why the White House no longer believes we're all equal under the law.
Snow added that this case, in which Libby didn't even request commutation, was handled "in a routine manner."
The president "routinely" spends weeks and weeks mulling over these questions? No wonder the president can't govern; the bleeding heart spends all of his time poring over commutation applications.
What's there even to say?
