Today attorney Robert F. Bauer, counsel for the Obama campaign, comes out with what he calls a “progressive case for a Libby pardon.” In a nutshell, Bauer’s blog illustrates why Democrats running for office should not recycle ‘Democratic’ advisors left over from ‘centrist’ losing campaigns. Bauer worked for Bill Bradley, one of the authors of the so-called ‘tax reform’ of the Eighties that began the mighty work of shifting our national tax burden from the wealthy and corporations to the middle class.

The important point here is that Bauer’s silly machiavellianism – that a Libby pardon will ...   more »