Kirk criticized the Libby Commutation:
There were detractors in the president’s own party, including north suburban Congressman Mark Kirk (R-Northbrook), who expressed his disappointment.
“He was indicted by a grand jury and convicted beyond the shadow of a doubt by one of the best prosecutors in America, Patrick Fitzgerald, and didn’t have a single member of a 12-member jury stand up with him,” Kirk said. “At that point, if you’ve done the crime,” you should do the time.
Are you going to have another meeting with the President where he ignores you and you do what he tells you to do, Mark?
The message from the lawmakers was “we’re all with you now, but we have concerns about where we will be next year,” a House GOP leadership aide said.
A GOP House aide told CNN that the meeting was a “proactive step” by the White House to meet with lawmakers who had reservations about Bush’s troop increase in Iraq to make sure they would not support a new Democratic proposal that would pay for the Iraq war in stages.
The aide predicted that there will be “no defections” when the proposal comes up for a vote today.
Bush said Wednesday that he would veto the bill.
Expressing concerns doesn’t change anything. Voting against the President might. Concerned Kirk isn’t going to do anything on his own though