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Timmeh12/01/2009 7:12:22 am PST

re: #248 lawhawk

Huckabee’s record continues to take a justified beating, and while he claimed on O’Reilly that he wouldn’t have made the decision to commute his sentence had he known what he knows now, his PAC site continues to blame others for the decision to commute.

It’s not even this one particular clemency with Huckabee, but the overall pattern. First, there’s the overally sheer number. He granted twice as many pardons and clemencies as his previous three predecessors. So that’s like a 6X pace. Then there’s the fact that he seemed to be susceptible to religious-based appeals. From what is already known, the Wayne Dumond case seems like the bigger sin, actually, but the overall pattern seems more troubling than any one particular case. If he had just been following normal procedures and got really unlucky, I’d be more inclined to cut him slack.