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Scott McClellan seems to still nurse the naive belief that George Bush can be shamed into consistency with his own explicit or implicit standards. He explained to the House Judiciary Committee why Bush shouldn’t pardon Scooter Libby:

Mr. Chairman, I believe that it would signal a special treatment, the same thing that happened with the commutation. And the President has always held a certain standard for a granting pardons, even going back to when he was governor, and I worked for him then. And that is, that the person must first repay his debt to his society, and second, must express remorse for the crimes which he committed. And we have seen neither of that from Scooter Libby at this point.

Maybe not firing Karl Rove should have given McClellan a clue that Bush wasn’t exactly a towering paragon of ethical behavior?