Executive Corruption and Pardons
 

There are many ways to measure the corruption of our system of government. One that measures the difference between actual executive power employed and the perceived opposition to it is the number of pardons granted at the end of a Presidents term. By this measure, FDR (3687), Wilson (2480), and Truman (2044) presided over the most corrupt executive expanding administrations so far. This is something to reflect on when you hear protestations by Democrats about Bushies abuse of executive authority. Is the Bush administration corrupt? Yes. Is he expanding the Executive's power far beyond what is Constitutional? Yes. Is this grasping unprecedented? No. The three Democratic Presidents listed are his precedent. My question is, are we so comfortable with the ever-expanding Executive that this President will not have to pardon extensively? Oh heck, let's have a poll we can look at in two years.

As the ultimate hypocricy, this repubican president will exceed the number of pardons that Clinton granted.

I was suprised that Clinton was in the middle of the pack numbers wise.

Yeah, the biased conservative media sure made it sound like he was out of the norm, didn't they?

But wait - I thought there was a liberal media conspiracy ?!

There are many reasons why a pardon might be justified, besides political clout.
Besides compassion for people incarcerated with extenuating hardship, sometimes the courts screw up or are bias, but a higher court can't fix it because of a catch 22.

More telling is who gets pardoned. Corrupt, convicted, members of the pardoning administration are the most offensive to me.

The worst...#1.....dirtiest, belongs to cocksucker. Gerald R. Ford, may he burn in the lowest depths of Hell. :rar: