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	<title><![CDATA[Keeping the Pressure On: the Dems Should Demand a No Pardon Pledge]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/keeping-the-pressure-on-t_b_10277.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>In his press conference today, Harry Reid <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/07/lol.05.html">said</a>, "I think the president should come forward now and say he's not going to pardon anybody." </p>

<p>Not a moment too soon, because the conventional wisdom on Scooter Libby being pardoned is already starting to congeal: </p>

<p>"The president is going to pardon Scooter Libby," Paul Begala <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/03/sitroom.02.html">predicted</a> on CNN after Libby's arraignment. "He's going to plead guilty and then Bush is going to pardon him."</p>

<p>This, apparently, is a bipartisan belief. "Ultimately,"...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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