Bush Admin Reaching Out To Sandy Berger

Sarcasm alert ... I forgot it doesn't always play well on blogs.

Unbelieveable. Just when he has a chance to gain back some cred with conservatives due to the Libby commutation,

Harry Reid: "The Constitution gives President Bush the power to commute sentences, but history will judge him harshly for using that power to benefit his own Vice President’s Chief of Staff who was convicted of such a serious violation of law.”

a high-level White House source suggests he is considering appointing Sandy Berger as Director of the National Archives. Hmmm. How is that going to help his legacy, I wonder?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was sentenced Thursday to community service and probation and fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified documents from the National Archives and intentionally destroying some of them.

Comments

[Phoenix]

How is that going to help his legacy? Once a snitch, always a snitch. Maybe Bush wants some stuff to disappear. Either that or Bush doesn't care about his legacy (which I believe) and he just wants to make some dems really nervous.

[J Cole]

I understand that following the White House announcement, Andrew Sullivan's ass blew up spontaneously.

[Laura]

This is a joke, about Sandy Berger, right? I hate to ask, because it *seems* like something you'd expect to see in The Onion, but unfortunately where President Bush is concerned, it's not out of the question he'd do it.

[K]

Must be a joke.

Otherwise Bush might have a motive. Berger knows how to make inconvenient material vanish from the national archives. He seems pretty good at flim-flam when investigated too.

If Bush trusts him that might be very useful soon.

[Phoenix]

Too bad it's a joke. I sure liked the sound of it. What a hoot! If I were president, I'd do stuff like that all the time just to throw opponents off their game. But then if I was president, I'd make it plain there'd be no games. Can't we get a leader somewhere to start the ball rolling by growing a pair and telling it like it is instead of kowtowing to PC.