While honoring Ford

Cheney wistfully mentions pardoning:
""It was this man, Gerald R. Ford, who led our republic safely though a crisis that could have turned to catastrophe," said Cheney, speaking in the Capitol Rotunda where Ford's body rested in a flag-draped casket. "Gerald Ford was almost alone in understanding that there can be no healing without pardon."

Strangely, he did not mention resigning in disgrace, breaking the law, or impeachment...

With all of the Ford remembrances

there is this horror to contemplate.



Update: But we do have this:
"In a four-hour conversation at his house in Beaver Creek, Colo., Ford "very strongly" disagreed with the current president's justifications for invading Iraq and said he would have pushed alternatives, such as sanctions, much more vigorously. In the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Bush but also of Vice President Cheney -- Ford's White House chief of staff -- and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's chief of staff and then his Pentagon chief.

"Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do.""

President Ford is dead.

Preznit Bush eagerly looks forward to speechifying at Ford's funeral. This has to be good for Republicans.... to remind the country what real conservatives believed in ...no... to remind people what a Republican in the highest office of the land should act like...uh ... no.... AH!! to show that Dubya didn't fall down as much as Ford did!!

Yes!