Sen Orrin Hatch said on one of the early Sunday morning programs that Libby Scooter should have been pardoned. I have always liked and respected Sen. Hatch, but today he forgot history. Yes, history. You see, Sen. Hatch defended his position by mentioning Pres. Clinton's pardon of Marc Reich and many others on the last day of Pres. Clinton's tenure as President.

Sen. Hatch therefore believes that he can justify his position today by faulting the Democrats back when Mr. Clinton was President. The error in his logic and reasoning is that Pres. Bush's decision to commute Libby Scooter's jail sentence is independent of Mr. Clinton's decisons as President back when Mr. Clinton was President. In other words, just because Mr. Clinton erred in his pardons doesn't justify Pres. Bush's actions today. In fact, Sen. Hatch sounds like an immature child who says " well Billy did it back then so George can do it now". The fallacy is that we learned that Pres. Clinton was wrong and historically he made a mistake. So, instead of learning from the mistake, Sen. Hatch wants to play partisan politics and claims Pres. Bush not only should have commuted Libby Scooter's jail sentence but also should have pardoned him. This is absolute arrogance and at taxpayer and citizen expense.

Sen. Hatch's logic is like saying well a new Democratic President can declare a war against Country X even though it would be a mistake to do so because Mr. Bush declared war on Traq even though he, Pres. Bush, was mistaken on the war on Iraq. In short, Sen. Hatch proposes that one should not learn from history but keep repeating past mistakes especially keeping tally of partisan politics for the sake of just using it for political advantage. Not only is this wrong, but it tramples on logic, reasoning, and accountability. It gives Pres. Bush a free pass to by -pass the judicial branch of government and being the"Decider" like John Wayne in a cowboy movie.

What Sen. Jatch and Pres. Bush forgot is that the cowboy is "extinct" and we are living in the information age with global communications, technology, and jobs. Sen. Hatch and Pres. Bush don't realize that htey are extinct just as dinosauers not only in the U.S. but to the entire world as well.

We need good luck, because we, the U.S., are being led by a group of extinct, incompetent, cavemen who in the New World of globalization and technolgy don't know north from south. Sen. Hatch and Pres. Bush will one day wake up like Rip van Winkle and say,

"My Gosh, what happened to our country? Where are we?"