Or he would, if he had any integrity.

Via Hot Air:

Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will hold hearings on the Libby commutation this week. Conyers has been calling for Bush’s impeachment for quite a while now, and even held a moonbat dress-up impeachment hearing before the 2006 elections put him in the chairman slot. When Clinton commuted the FALN terrorists’ sentences in 1999, Conyers voted against condemning it and had this to say:

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to what is clearly a politically motivated and totally senseless resolution. We are a Nation of laws, and if any matter is abundantly clear by our Constitution, it is that the President has the sole and unitary power to grant clemency. Is there any Member that does not understand that? Every President has the sole and unitary power to grant clemency…Now the reason that he has the power to grant clemency is that it is that the President is uniquely positioned to consider the law and the facts that apply in each request for clemency.”

Conyers was one of only 41 in the House to vote in support of Clinton’s FALN commutations, a move that freed convicted terrorists.

The hypocrisy continues.  I am all for discussing whether Bush should have or not, but not when it entails such gross hypocrisy based on partisan loyalty.  I won’t take a position on the Scooter’s clemency.  But I will call a hypocrite a hypocrite.

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