Oh, Frack!
I was gonna say something like, "Yabut...you can't a priori pardon someone." Then I remembered Gerry Ford, and the only mistake he ever made during his attenuated Presidency.
:-(
jb4
"Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
&mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration