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Holder Has Long Been Contemptible
Just don’t let him resign before November 6.
While the House Oversight Committee has now recommended that Congress hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for his conduct during the Fast and Furious scandal, one could make the case that Holder has long held the American public in contempt.
After all, how many cabinet secretaries begin their tenure by calling his fellow Americans “a nation of cowards” where it concerned the question of racism? Never mind that America has become a nation where racism is not only unacceptable but a nation where, outside of being called a murderer or a rapist, nothing is worse than being called a racist.
If anyone has behaved cowardly where it concerns racism, it is Holder. What can one say about a man who sees fit to drop a successfully prosecuted case of voter intimidation? If two members of the Ku Klux Klan had held a baton in front of polling station in Philadelphia, Mississippi, to intimidate black voters, Holder would have spared no effort to prosecute them. But when it comes to two members of the New Black Panthers holding a baton in front of polling station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to intimidate white voters, Holder could not care less. During testimony before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in March 2011, Holder said:
When you compare what people endured in the South in the '60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia… I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people.
No, the great disservice here is an Attorney General who does not comprehend the basic legal concept of “equal justice under law.” Eric Holder is the Attorney General of the United States, not the Attorney General of his people.
Yet what can we expect of a public official who does not have the courtesy to read legislation he contended would lead to increased racial profiling? Oh, pardon me. Holder did say he “glanced” at the Arizona immigration law. It would have been nice if Holder taken the copy of S.B. 1070 that Texas Congressman Ted Poe so generously offered him. Then again it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. Holder’s Department of Injustice was going to sue Arizona whether he read the bill or not.
After all, what can we expect of a public official who wanted to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York? Holder looked like a first-year law student back in November 2009 when Senator Lindsey Graham asked him if he could cite a case where an enemy combatant caught on a battlefield was tried in civilian court. His embarrassing reply is probably the reason why the Obama Administration chose to kill Osama bin Laden rather than capture him. Like other members of the Obama Administration, Holder cannot bring himself to utter the words “radical Islam.”
But for all of Holder’s trespasses during his tenure as Attorney General, Fast and Furious is his most serious transgression. An ill-advised scheme to ship arms to Mexican drug lords has resulted in the deaths of two law enforcement officers. Liberals like Alan Colmes can argue that Holder stopped “Fast and Furious” and blame the Bush Administration until he is blue in the face. But how could Holder have stopped something he claimed to have no knowledge of in the first place? Besides if Holder had stopped Fast and Furious dead in its tracks, wouldn’t someone in the Obama Administration have seen fit to leak such information?
Alas, no. Instead we have an Attorney General who uses the race card to immunize himself from criticism. In December 2011, Holder told the New York Times, “This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”
Ah yes, from the Janeane Garofalo School of Government which states that all Republican criticism of President Obama and, by extension, Eric Holder is motivated solely by race. It looks like Chris Matthews is giving the valedictory address. If Holder is suggesting that Republicans would not have called a white Attorney General in a Democrat administration to account for something like Fast and Furious” is patently absurd. But President Obama rewards Holder’s loyalty by invoking executive privilege.
Last week, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Texas Senator John Cornyn called on Holder to resign to his face.
I humbly disagree. I say Holder should remain as Attorney General. The longer Holder remains in office and the angrier Americans become about Fast and Furious, the bigger an albatross Holder remains around the neck of President Obama. All of which reflects poorly on President Obama’s judgment or lack thereof in appointing Holder as his Attorney General in the first place. If the American public should now hold Eric Holder in contempt, the American public may do the same with President Obama in November.
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Aristocat| 6.21.12 @ 6:36AM
Holder and Obama are criminals in high office.
Alej| 6.21.12 @ 9:01AM
Our Affirmative Action government at work.
vtwin| 6.21.12 @ 9:51AM
... and it is obvious they are both criminals because they are black. Right?
Alej| 6.21.12 @ 10:01AM
Cry me a river.
The Big E| 6.21.12 @ 10:05AM
Is it obvious to you that, regardless of what they might have done, they are NOT criminals because they are black?
You are the bigot here, vtwin. The true, unvarnished bigot.
The Big E| 6.21.12 @ 10:27AM
You know, vtwin, the more I think about your comment, the more disgusting you become. Let's assume for a moment that F&F had nothing to do with politics, let's assume it was just a misguided scheme to track drug traffickers - IN WHAT UNIVERSE IS IT NOT A CRIME TO INTENTIONALLY PUT MILITARY GRADE WEAPONS IN THE HANDS MASS MURDERERS???!!!!!!!
And yet YOU defend this by saying anyone who thinks it was a crime to do so is a racist? ARE YOU KIDDING ME????!!!!!!
Do you realize that Mexican drug cartels murder people in large numbers? Do you realize they will murder entire families, woman and children included, simply because one family member REFUSED to run drugs for them? AND YOU'RE FINE WITH OUR GOVERNMENT AIDING PEOPLE LIKE THAT???!!!!!
While don't you cut to the chase and admit the truth - you don't care how many people die, how many INNOCENT people die, so long as their deaths benefit YOUR side of the political spectrum.
You are a sick, disgusting, perverse, bigoted, POS.
Anthony| 6.21.12 @ 11:02AM
Quite right Big E, your point goes to another aspect of Obozo's and Holder's criminal liability;
The Doctrine of Forseeability.
It is a forseeable consequence of your action, if when you hand the keys to a car to an intoxicated person and someone is killed or injured as a result.
Don't expect trolls to comprehend this. As you said, it's all about leftism winning, at all cost.
CJW| 6.21.12 @ 5:38PM
One American and hundreds of poor Mexicans died as a result of Obama/Holder supplying weapons to gangsters, and they are trying to cover it up. Holder will stonewall as long as possible to help Obama with the election.
And the Dems still have dreams about Watergate as a scandal!!
If you supplied weapons to gangsters who use them to kill you would probably be indicted as an accomlice on murder charges, at least manslaughter charges of gross negligence because you supplied weapons knowing or should have known they would be used in a crme.
The hypocrisy is Holder and his ilk would sue gun manufacturers and sellers for civil damages for injuries caused by the guns.
TLP| 6.21.12 @ 4:51PM
And, YOU, are right on the money.
vtwin is a sick joke and a punk.
I sh*t biggern him, and so do you.
Anthony| 6.21.12 @ 10:36AM
No vtwin, ya know, trolls like you are so predictable and sophomoric. It's racism, it's racism!!!!!!!!
Not suprising, coming from San. Fran., you're ass backwards, as usual.
I remember your D party thinking and calling as the REAL criminals Miguel Estrada and Alberto Gonzales. Wasn't that what your D party was calling these Hispanic men? Where were your cries of racism then?
Did their actions end up killing two American agents, the likes of Terry and Zapata, as Holder and Obozo's did? Do you know how an accessory to murder is defined?
I hope the gangs of Oakland finish the job of finishing off San Fran., unless Moonbeams does it first. It's demise can't come soon enough.
Stephanie| 6.21.12 @ 11:48AM
San Fran. The city of fruits and nuts.
What a shame. It was a lovely place 50 years ago.
Oldefarte| 6.21.12 @ 11:10AM
No douche, it is obvious they are both criminals because THEY ARE BOTH CRIMINALS, and they just happen to be black. If you want other examples of same, I'd suggest a visit to your neighborhood prison!!!!!!!!
Doctor Right| 6.21.12 @ 11:29AM
Well, duh!
TLP| 6.21.12 @ 4:57PM
Wow.
Nice comeback.
I guess it's true.
Brevity is the soul of Twits, like you.
Stephanie| 6.21.12 @ 11:33AM
no, vtwin. They are criminals because they break the law and then thumb their noses at us.
Why would you defend lowlifes such as these?
Nina in MA| 6.21.12 @ 11:47AM
Troll that you are, you have heated up the already hot topic. I don't care what color you are, you deliberately made comments that are demeaning, ignorant and just plain stupid. Unfortunately, there are too many who believe as you do, that this is racially motivated. If a black man were to steal my car, I would still want him prosecuted for theft...not because of his color, but because of his criminal activity. The only arguements you people seem to have is race baiting and to keep rehashing an event that took place 150 years ago and it will accomplish nothing but continue to instill more hatred. And this from the " love-in" why-can't-we- all-get-along liberal side, right? (oh I forgot, that's only if we believe what you believe, anyone who can think on their own is out) .
Stephanie| 6.21.12 @ 11:54AM
That's right Nina. Those on the left who scream about "TOLERANCE" are the least tolerant. We MUST believe as they do or you get the scene from Invason of the Body Snatchers where Donald Southerland sees one of those who hasn't been taken over by the pod people, he points and opens his mouth and crazy idiotic noise blares out. You will be ridiculed if you don't adhere to their way of thinking.
Dave Williams| 6.21.12 @ 12:57PM
Way to keep the bright, glowing flame of liberal idiocy burning, vtwin! You, Purp, the unlamented Clint, and Jack the Cheesehead Nazi are some of the best advertisements for conservatism that could ever exist. I can't wait to hear the whole tribe of you howl when Oblahblah goes down in flames this Nov. 6th!!!
Maxwell| 6.21.12 @ 1:13PM
Speaking of Clint, where has the lad been?
Drunken Sailor| 6.21.12 @ 2:08PM
My guess is heavily sedated since Ron Paul officailly anounced he was dropping at and his boy Rand threw his weight behind Romney. It was just to much for poor Clint to handle.
Occam's Tool| 6.25.12 @ 2:18AM
DS: And listening to "Teenage Lobotomy" by the Ramones on a continuous loop.
But I want the ultimate Dem ticket in 2016: the Weiner/Holder ticket.
Red Bubba| 6.21.12 @ 1:53PM
Alberto Gonzales resigned for less, and he was a white-hispanic.
JP| 6.21.12 @ 2:21PM
Who says our President is black? His mother was white. Does a black father trump a white mother? Or is it a Muslim thing?
Brooksifier | 6.21.12 @ 7:59PM
I'm going to vote for Obama no matter what, because I sense you wasted 12 years with the Sununu-Rove dynasty;
and because if Mitt loses, you will have to run a far better candidate in '16.
Skippy| 6.22.12 @ 3:19PM
I'm going to burn my town down, 'cuz when they rebuild, it will be better than ever!
Moron.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.21.12 @ 6:49AM
U.S. Attorney General Jeremiah Wright.
The corrupt have come home to roost.
Appleby| 6.21.12 @ 7:00AM
Now that Obama has invoked Executive Privilege to put the records of Fast and Furious in the same vault with all his personal documents (transcripts, diplomas, birth certificate(s), school records, yearbooks, etc.), it's perfectly clear that his fingerprints are all over the files and that Eric Holder has the drop on him. Once this character is shifted out the door (and check his pockets when he leaves and be sure you get all the keys), perhaps the next Woodward and Bernstein will emerge to trace the wandering path of this debacle and what a movie it will make.
BobNY| 6.21.12 @ 8:18AM
That would be nice, but Woodward and Bernstein wouldn't do that to their protected party. Democrats can do no wrong according to the MSM, and therefore there is no need to do any investigating journalism like they did against that evil Nixon.
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 9:15AM
BobNY,
If only Obama had to endure one-tenth the vituperation Nixon did. The Left hated that man at a level unmatched since.
It's notable that Watergate was about a botched break-in of a campaign office. No one died. But the cover-up killed Nixon. One would think there would be an outrage over this, but the MSM just won't cover it.
Still, there is hope. The words "Nixon" and "Watergate" have surfaced. The parallels are striking.
MelvinNC| 6.21.12 @ 7:14AM
There is more to this than just Holder and Obama. This Fast and Furious wasn't developed on someone's veranda over Brandy snifters.
This was a globalist plan that may or may have not had direct involvement by the UN, Mexico, or even certain member states within the EU.
This plan was developed with a particular objective to coincide with the drug business in Mexico and the small arms reduction treaty currently winding it's way through UN bureaucracy.
But an the biggest indictment of all is against Liberalism. Right, Left, down the middle and even the Progressives, and Liberal Republicans. The individual philosophies were ready to jump on the band wagon to restrict our Constitution by treaty.
I would not even be surprised if Soros filthy paws were upon this push.
Conservatives are armed with this information and the age old question is. what are Conservatives going to do post Mitt Romney. Cause I don't see him breaking down any of Obama's doors while Barrack voids our Constitution.
Von Mises Jr| 6.21.12 @ 8:12AM
Excellent point Melvin. This is all tied to the UN and Agenda21. The liberal elitist plan to corral us all into "smart growth" sustainable "pack and stack" government apartments, take away our vehicles and have us work for one of Jeffrey Immelt or Warren Buffet's fascist companies. And they cannot achieve that while we have our guns. Hillary is "Fast and Furiously" working to that end.
benny havens| 6.21.12 @ 9:09AM
Correct.
Her Thighness spoke about the necessity for more gun control because of guns going across the border from the US long before Fast and Furious became headlines. You can bet that Obama knew all about this operation along with Holder, Clinton as well as Bird Brain Biden.
Von Mises Jr| 6.21.12 @ 9:33AM
Apparently, so did the Mexican government. It is now surfacing that the Three Amigos meeting took place and the Mexican President was touting the same message.
TNcracker | 6.21.12 @ 10:01AM
So true! Her comment stood out to me because at the time, I remember being disgusted about the "Blame America First" crowd. (Drug cartels are our fault, too, because of our insatiable demand for illegal drugs, dontcha know). As a second point, I hold it against The GOP senators (Hatch) for voting to confirm Holder when his sleaze was well-known (Mark Rich).
DRed| 6.21.12 @ 10:20AM
Here's a question: why would the Obama administration need to continue gunwalking programs to create a controversy about guns going across the border? Guns were (and presumably still are) going across the border already. We didn't have to sell guns to Mexican cartels-they were already buying them.
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 10:44AM
DRed,
That is INDEED the question. One to which the oversight committee would like the answer.
DRed| 6.21.12 @ 11:01AM
The answer is likely the most obvious one-they wouldn't. That doesn't excuse the incompetent stupidity of the whole operation, and it doesn't excuse Holder possibly lying to Congress. But the idea that this part of Obama's sinister plot to take your guns away is most probably some Bircher fantasy.
Boar Hunter| 6.21.12 @ 11:14AM
I started to respond to you,but then I remembered...you are an idiot who loves him some Kenyan.
Liberals=liars and lovers of lies.
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 11:29AM
Dred,
Spin Holder's DoJ denial letter - later retracted - into your "obvious answer" for me, please.
DRed| 6.21.12 @ 11:39AM
Maybe he was lying to Congress to try to hide how incompetent the operation was?
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 1:06PM
DRed,
Or maybe he was hiding his porn stash and Hello Kitty tu-tu.
DRed| 6.21.12 @ 1:52PM
What seems more likely to you, John, that a government official is lying to cover up some sort of embarrassing incompetence (or perhaps an illegal cover-up of the embarrassing incompetence) or that he's lying to cover a plot directed by the UN, Mexico, Jeff Immeldt, George Soros and certain unspecified EU member states to disarm American civilians so that we can all be forced live in apartment buildings (and not even nice apartment buildings-crappy ones!).
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 3:21PM
DRed,
Black and white fallacy. Perhaps it's something altogether different - even innocent. I don't care to speculate. Engaging in conspiracy theories is not rational.
The Oversight Committee wants to know who authorized this and why. It is in their purview to do so and is germane to their role as legislators. The DoJ story is anything by straight. First it wasn't authorized in Washington it was rogue agents. Then that denial was false. Then the emails suggesting someone in Washington did know all along. Holders famous testimony about the definition of lying - factually true but weasel-y in the extreme.
Issa wants the documents. Holder says no, citing on-going investigations and separation of powers. Even the seamy Clinton/Lewinsky documents were provided for inspection.
It looks like a coverup, walks like a coverup and quacks like a coverup. What is being covered up is the question. The answer remains unknown.
DRed| 6.21.12 @ 3:57PM
Sure-that's reasonable.
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 4:38PM
DRed,
Go see what the Supreme Court decided when Nixon tried this. (1) Executive privilege cannot be used to obstruct justice and (2) the courts are the arbiter.
DRed| 6.21.12 @ 4:57PM
I just agreed with you! Man, this site is rough. You try to correct me even when I don't argue.
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 5:22PM
DRed,
Sorry. I mistook it for sarcasm. I interpreted it as my suggestion of a cover-up as unfounded.
Occam's Tool| 6.25.12 @ 2:20AM
DRed: Yesw, but how does "lobotomized incompetent" fit in with the "smartest POTUS of all time thesis?"
Your guy is either a crook, or a brain damaged incompetent.
Occam's Tool| 6.25.12 @ 2:20AM
Sorry, "Yes," sans "w." I guess I'm just an owner of a lonely heart.
The Big E| 6.21.12 @ 11:11AM
Here's a better question: why would they need to continue a gunwalking program to create a controvery about guns going across the border IF guns were actually going across the border?
They wouldn't. They would only need to create that controversy if guns were NOT otherwise going across the border.
And by the way, if you're in a Mexican drug cartel, why would come across the border and seek out a corrupt gun drealer in the US, and then pay US prices for guns which are available for less through the black market in Mexico?
I've never bought into the idea that American guns are going south Mexico. I suspect the truth is, in fact, the opposite, that Mexican cartels are bringing guns with them here as they traffic here.
TW in SC| 6.21.12 @ 5:29PM
Well, with national socialists all wanting to be the big, popular kid with the flashy car, it becomes obvious that they like doing things in a big way. In order to promote sufficient "outrage" by the anti-gun crowd, there would have to be a flood of arms sent to Mexico. They undertook the operation in just that vein. Of course, in typical national socialist fashion, they did not anticipate the unintended consequences. Now they have poop on their shoes and they've walked all over the white carpet and are trying to avoid being held responsible for it.
JimH| 6.21.12 @ 7:44AM
An important thing to remember about F and F was that the main goal was not to trace gun suppliers to the cartels. It was to help discredit private gun ownership.
WRTolkas| 6.21.12 @ 8:10AM
Dear JimH,
I concur. It started with the government notion that the arms smuggled to Mexico were from shows and shops. That had to be proven true for the tyrant to assault the 2nd Amendment. Fortunately there was no proof; but that wouldn't stand in the way with that administration. Fast and Furious was to manufacture a lie to start the tyrant's assault on the 2nd Amendment. It failed, he failed, and now he and Eric "Algonquin J. Calhoun" Holder are burying the evidence.
Anthony| 6.21.12 @ 9:09AM
Exactly WR, which is why Obozo cannot let this get out. Besides, and I'll keep screaming this until the cows come home, their actions were criminal, and directly led to the death of two Americans. They are accessories to murder!!!!
BTW, Algonquin J. Calhoun, Esq. was a paragon of legal virture compared to Holder, and, he'd make a better Solicitor General than Obozo's current guy.
TLP| 6.21.12 @ 8:23AM
The Klan in Philadelphia Mississippi? Why does that sound so familiar?
If a tree falls in the woods? Does it make a sound?
If we never really thought we were alone? We're we really ever alone?
Is Oral SEX, really Sex?
And is LYING really a bad thing or should it be encouraged?
If Hundreds of Innocent Mexican Men, Women, and Children are Murdered by Drug Cartels, using the High Powered Automatic Weapons that this President, and his Attorney General GAVE THEM, and nobody in the Media covers it? Have we become a Banana Republic, or worse?
We have a United States President, and his A.G. Linked to Hundreds of MURDERS, south of the Border. Linked to the MURDERS of two Americans, while serving this Country's Interests. With the Executive Order pronouncement, yesterday. We have, Potentially, the BIGGEST STORY since the Moon Landing, and nobody wants to report it.
NBC gave it 20 Seconds, yesterday.
When Joe Wilson's WHORE got her name mentioned in the papers, it was treated like The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping. The MSM cried out with one voice, for a Special Prosecutor, and they got one.
When George Allen called some little Puke -Maccaca - the WAPO put it on the Front Page more times than they would have, had CHRIST returned.
There's a guy, in the Oval Office, who wipes his Dog's Ass with our Constitution, every day. Who goes to War, makes Laws, and now, has people MURDERED, with IMPUNITY, to push his Political Agenda.
The ECONOMY, I fear, is the Least of our problems.
Cobalt| 6.21.12 @ 8:59AM
"Mark Stein Analyzes Obama's "Abuse" Of Executive Privilege"
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....ilege.html
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 9:21AM
Cobalt,
Mark Levin, actually. None the less, interesting. Supporting his point is a reasonable discussion of "executive privilege" at:
http://legal-dictionary.thefre.....+privilege
No bright line here, but the Supreme Court did deny Nixon's claims arguing the privilege cannot be used to obstruct justice.
Cobalt| 6.21.12 @ 9:38AM
Yes, it should be Levin. Sorry about that.
Bill84728| 6.21.12 @ 4:32PM
"Macaca" means "macaque," a species of monkey. So it may not be the most polite name in the world but it's not racist or ethnocentric.
TLP| 6.21.12 @ 5:02PM
But, because it was said by a Republican, it made the front page HUNDREDS OF TIMES, while Fast and Furious is lucky to make The Classifieds.
TW in SC| 6.22.12 @ 11:02AM
Indeed. If ever there was a glaring example of how the media is carrying the national socialists' water, this would be it.
Fear of exposing the public to obvious misconduct is not the mark of a fair and balanced news agency. Obviously there are a great many who are in the socialist camp. Some are there because they follow the lead of the big entities, some are there because they are small "c" communists and still others are there because their whole life has been spent apologizing for their own white "slave-owner" history.
And, if ever there was an example of how weak and misguided such thinking is, this, also would be it. Problem with socialists is that when the going gets tough, they do not become introspective and wonder, "How did I go wrong" for they have been taught and happily have learned all their lives that they CAN'T be wrong, that socialism IS the answer and that blacks DO make better leaders...because they're black. And there is no logic-trail, no path to clarity; Just emotions and fear that the "evil right" will prevail. Thus they double down on the bad bet and raise the risk to ridiculous levels, to themselves and others as well. When it all falls apart, the blame amongst their peers becomes thicker than molasses in winter.
Kwan| 6.21.12 @ 8:27AM
Holder sees his mission as the protector of the Revolution. He cloaks his subversive activities in obfuscatory legalese. This Fast and Furious was obviously a left-wing plan to rally support for the confiscation of firearms in violation of the 2nd amendment.
TLP| 6.21.12 @ 5:04PM
And, if nobody believes you?
They can look at the stories from CBS NEWS, before they were SHUT DOWN.
oldeham| 6.21.12 @ 8:35AM
"I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people."
Now if is that is not a telling statement I don't know what one is.
I guess he is not the AG for everyone in this country, whether a citizen, resident or visitor.
Hmmm - who is the racist here? Perhaps the AG
Anthony| 6.21.12 @ 8:51AM
The battle lines have been drawn for a long time. Watching the D whores in congress rally around this reprobate, we know why this country is on the verge of civil war.
Watching Holder and Obozo lie to congress in REAL time, pulling faux executive privilege stunts Nixon never dreamed of doing, while the MSM stick their thumbs up their asses, is a sight to behold.
If you'd hadn't figured it out by now, now you know; the MSM and the D party are totally and completely CORRUPT. Hello Dan Rather, how about telling THIS story, you old leftist fraud?? Whose the bigger liar Dan, Nixon or Obozo? Which of these two presidents caused two American agents to die Dan?
Watching all these same whores, both in congress and the MSM, should disabuse any RINO of the notion that accomodation with the left is IMPOSSIBLE.
Madcow was duitifully running a crawl last night, while ducking and weaving around "Fast & Furious", that FOX News was your "uncles news station". Yep, right in line with Obozo and the D party, FOX = old white men.
Funny thing is MSLSD would love to have the audience FOX has.
Well, can't say we didn't see all this coming. If Obozo is not removed from office in November, the fur will fly, I guarantee it!!!
Alej| 6.21.12 @ 9:04AM
This Texas boy is ready to start collecting pelts.
irish19| 6.21.12 @ 10:46AM
Need to touch up the edge on my scalper.
paintbrush| 6.21.12 @ 9:09AM
Look, I know where this fast and furious is going…….we all know that the Constitution was in reality written mostly as mere “suggestions” just like those silly Ten Commandments or meal serving sizes. The truth is, no one really knows what the Second Amendment means. The meaning of the words "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed," has eluded even the best Constitutional scholars, from George Clooney, Barbara Walters and Sarah Fluke. Even Holder remains divided over the interpretation of this vague phrase, which is why it is necessary to bend the rules to get things done……
benny havens| 6.21.12 @ 9:17AM
You could be right Paint.
It could be George Clooney, Barbara Walters and Sarah Fluke think the Founding Fathers were talking about the arms that are attached to our shoulders.
Russel| 6.21.12 @ 9:10AM
Agree with the author , let's let this dead fish keep stinking , and it's bound to get worse . But could anyone answer - will the fish be liable for prosecution once he's out of office ? . In a sane justice system , I can see murder , or at least an accomplice . Two law officers dead and who knows how many others , on either side of the border . A perp walk and orange suit is what the bastard should get .
Pecos Pete| 6.21.12 @ 9:10AM
Holder should NOT resign. His comedy act is only helping to bring on ridicule for King O's act in the White House. Pardon's are on the way once King O is not reelected.
jaytrain| 6.21.12 @ 9:40AM
Glenn Beck commentedd yesterday that if crimes have been commited they need to be prosecuted . That even if there is a change in administrations come November , this is far more than a political scandal , too many people , on both sides of the bordrer , to let this be a political gotcha game . And as Krauthammer said last night , if there is a choice between conspiracy and idiocy in these sorts of affairs , he, and I, select idiocy as explanation . And to get real snarky , looks like more evidence to support the Campanis ( Al ) Hypothesis .
Shadow| 6.21.12 @ 9:43AM
Honest Americans are not quite the cowards Mr. Holder thought us to be. All the way with the outing of his crime and his criminal accomplices, all the way to the White House. Let's have that discussion on race and how it doesn't give you less ability or responsibility.
squalis| 6.21.12 @ 9:56AM
If you want a lesson in utter denial and extremely twisted, perverse, apologetic thinking, look at the posts on HuffPo regarding the executive privilege order. Warning: have Xanax nearby.
Stephanie| 6.21.12 @ 11:42AM
And what else would you expect from the crowd that reads that pap? It's the "gimme gimme" crowd and they don't want their stream of free stuff interrupted.
Bob From District 9| 6.23.12 @ 1:28AM
"It's the "gimme gimme" crowd "
They're right wingers? No surprise.
The Big E| 6.21.12 @ 10:17AM
The really sickening thing about this is, assuming F&F had came off as Holder and Co. wanted, how many Mexicans would have died in their best case scenario? They clearly wanted weapons sold in America to turn up at Mexican drug cartel drime scenes - which tend to involve large nmbers of corpses, often large numbers of corpses of people who were NOT involved in the drug trade.
Whoever dreamed up and approved this ridiculous scheme, whether white or black, Republican or Democrat, Bush or Obama, whatever, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Stephanie| 6.21.12 @ 11:44AM
Mexicans, Americans, whatever. We're all expendable in the eyes of our government. Just look at the mess in the Middle East, Vietnam, etc.
Dolor en el trasero| 6.21.12 @ 10:22AM
By all means, we need "Eric the Red" at Justice until the Elections. I think we can get a great deal of mileage out of this creep. HOLDER is sanctamonious, arrogant and a fool. Just the kind of Liberal Socialist IDEALOGUE we need to showcase the Obama regime's attituded toward our country and our Constitution. Don't force the SOB to resign. He's the GIFT that keeps on GIVING. Now that Obama has invoked Exec Priv, in the FAST AND FURIOUS SCANDAL we should DEMAND to know:
WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW AND WHEN HE KNOW IT?
Louis Jenkins| 6.21.12 @ 11:14AM
Obama knew about it. All of his advisors, at least 2/3s of them knew it. Maybe Obama's dog didn't know anything. This current episode is just one of many. There is more than just one rotten apple in the barrel, unfortunately, this is the only one surfacing at the moment. I happen to agree with one poster above, that this episode has a greater meaning. That Dear Hillary is out to have the small arms treaty verified by the USA. Remember, it only takes a majority to get it thru the Senate, and then we'll be expected to roll over and play dead, or be really dead.
Many of you have kept up with the Fast and Furious case, and you're to be congratulated. I have had my eye on this since day one when the two men were killed, and when the arms were traced back to the gunshops a chill went up my spine (not my leg). Did you know that a third weapon is still missing from the murder scene of Terry?
There is much more to this entire situation than meets the eye.
TLP| 6.21.12 @ 5:08PM
He claimed Executive Privelage.
Of course he knew about it.
Does anyone think that his androgynous, limp wristed, POS Attorney General would do ANYTHING, without his Messiah's Blessing?
Kwan| 6.21.12 @ 8:06PM
That's right. Obama says jump and Holder says how high. Then Obama tosses him a dog biscuit. This entire Obama presidency has been choreographed by a committee of left-wing radicals under the direction of George Soros. Do you think these two nitwits ( Obama and Holder ) are capable of planning anything larger than what color tie to wear to the office. The Soros committee writes the script and these two dopes follow it like brainless-automatons.
Oldefarte| 6.21.12 @ 11:17AM
The optimum point of Aaron's editorial IMHO is '.....If two members of the Ku Klux Klan had held a baton in front of polling station in Philadelphia, Mississippi, to intimidate black voters, Holder would have spared no effort to prosecute them....'; and possibly we need to revisit those times in order to balance the current extremism/radicalism???????????????
Maxwell| 6.21.12 @ 11:43AM
I can only add one more item to what has been said above my post, what were the Senate Republicans thinking when Holder came up for a vote?
Senators Alexander, Bennett, Bond, Chambliss, Collins, Corker, Graham, Grassley, Gregg, Hatch, Isakson, Kyl, Lugar, McCain, Mukowski, Sessions, Snowe, and Voinovich, who all voted to confirm Eric Holder should be hounded to the steps of a VERY WARM PLACE (and no, I don't mean Princeton right now either where the temp is almost 100)
Louis Jenkins| 6.21.12 @ 1:11PM
Yes, those good Republican senators voted yes for him. Good Republicans. Good Republicans.
TLP| 6.21.12 @ 5:09PM
Every one of them MUST GO.
Nina in MA| 6.21.12 @ 11:55AM
These are the people who continue the segregation lines. If I'm a racist as they would have others believe because he committed a crime and happens to also be black, then call me a racist. I don't care anymore. I'm tired of the race baiting which HE implied in his remark of "his people" meaning what? Certainly not the American people I'm sure....the media whimps will NOT report unbiased news because of their love affair with Obama even if it means the end of America as we know it.....Obama protecting his boy...what's he hiding?
RAM| 6.21.12 @ 12:02PM
Quoted from the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12.....wanted=all
"When he arrived at Columbia in 1969 as a boyish-looking freshman, he was recruited by upperclassmen to help take over the R.O.T.C. office. Armed with pillowcases and sheets, he joined several dozen students and christened the office as a student center named for Malcolm X.
Steven Sims, a close college friend, said, 'It was very galvanizing because, for many of us, it allowed us to further develop and embrace our black consciousness'.”
Anthony| 6.21.12 @ 12:05PM
MEMO TO ERIC THE RED
Lawyer up pal. And don't forget to write a nice thank you note to all those Americans in the petroleum industry that have brought us products like K-Y jelly.
vtwin will demonstrate how the product is properly used and applied.
E B | 6.21.12 @ 1:41PM
One could hope. It certainly reflects poorly on Obama that he used executive privilege to protect Holder. Is he complicit? Is he impeachable? We may never know.
What we do know is justice is not being served in this country. Have you read about Critical Race Theory which both Obama and Holder believe, as do many other in the administration? Breitbart has written a bunch about it.
If Holder were to resign (which I doubt - he seems incapable of common sense or basic decency) then Obama would be scrutinized more closely over the replacement by new media, forcing coverage by news media as in Fast and Furious itself. Win-win for conservatives, I'd say.
www.conservativemormonmom.blogspot.com
Dixon| 6.21.12 @ 2:22PM
F&F will one day be exposed as an abuse of power to assault the Constitution with a most cynical, criminal and dangerous sneak attack.
I can easily envision BO, Holder, and Clinton sliding around on their bellies, slyly grinning at each other in the oval office in 2010, giddy F&F would let them "plant" false evidence to impugn US gun dealers selling to drug cartels and use this as evil PR to further the goal to gut the 2nd amendment.
Obamanation is un-American based on actions, not opinions. They executed a direct assault on the first and tenth amendments with the healthcare mandates on faith organizations and the AZ illegal immigration law respectively.
And now, most likely, a despicable sneak attack on the second amendment.
Obamanation is ignorant of all things American, arrogant in the application of power....and enemies of Freedom.
Who Knows?| 6.21.12 @ 2:26PM
The body politic is sick, and it has zilch to do with the amount of melanin in one’s skin.
Holder, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, et al, are riding their high horses, the true representatives of the sick bloodsuckers breeding like fruit flies---so many fat and diseased people!
I just read from Doctor Schulze’s blog that the total blood supply goes through the kidneys every FOUR MINUTES.
What does that have to do with the price of beans?
As above so below.
There are toxin-removing “kidneys” for the body politic, as well. And, just as the exponential growth of the number of obese Americans, and their weight, one by one, continues on the way to a final fat bubble bursting, the same thing is happening in D.C.
Oh, the accumulated poison it that city!
Can a “kidney” burst, like an appendix?
What is the political “blood supply”? In the realm of thoughts and ideas, taken to cells as policies for action, there’s an almost complete failure of the “kidneys”, so that we are suffering the logical stultification of the political body.
With mostly crap coming in, and STAYING there, by and VERY LARGE, the image of DC as a cesspool is literally true---most of the humans in positions of power in that hellish place are veritable slow-walking out houses.
Stay there, Holder and Obama---keep getting more and more bloated.
People will notice.
cicero| 6.21.12 @ 2:37PM
President Obama did not invoke executive priviledge to protect Holder. Obama has demonstrated no qualms about throwing those close to him to the wolves. I feel comfortable that Michelle and the girls would be history, if he thought it would shield him, except she would probably win the wrestle, and he would have bus treadd marks on his forehead. He invoked exec priv because he knows that those internal memoes wil clearly show that he was well aware of what was going on, and not only approved the operation, but probably authored it.
TLP| 6.21.12 @ 5:11PM
Congratulations?
You get it.
Controse| 6.21.12 @ 3:22PM
Does anyone else find it strange that there has been no expression of outrage by the government of Mexico over Fast and Furious. After all their president gave a speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress denouncing Arizona for enforcing our so called immigration laws. It would seem F&F would be such a sore spot it would be prime campaign cause celeb to campaign on in Mexico. Surely it should rate a rant before a joint session of the Mexican legislature. I think MelvinNC might be on to something with his their-all-out-to-get-us theme above.
The Big E| 6.21.12 @ 4:44PM
If the President of Mexico did express his outrage over F&F, especially if he did so in front of the Mexican legislature, how would we ever know? It certainly would receive no coverage here.
Controse| 6.21.12 @ 3:33PM
I can't for the life of me in a world ruled by logic see how the very act of invoking executive privilege isn't equivalent to self-incrimination. The very rational for preventing discovery means there must be something to discover. Us patriots so crudely labeled birthers are very familiar with Obama's, or whoever he is, latest F&F defensive maneuver. Imagine arguing before a judge that no I didn't know anything and yes I am using executive privilege to prevent the prosecution from proving so. It takes a liberal.
JD| 6.21.12 @ 5:12PM
One could argue that "taking the fifth" is similarly self-incriminating. Still, it doesn't prevent the discovery of non-verbal evidence like this does.
John Navratil| 6.21.12 @ 5:34PM
Controse,
The principled use of Executive Privilege is to prevent Congress for usurping executive power. For example, demanding to see diplomatic communication during treaty negotiations, or battle plans. That doesn't appear to be the case here, I'm just making the point.
Your second sentence is an invitation to tyranny. It's like saying that if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from the police monitoring you. Liberty requires to assumption of innocence and the proof of guilt. However, as Nixon discovered, executive privilege cannot be used to obstruct justice and the courts will decide the point. That's where this appears to be headed.
creeper| 6.22.12 @ 11:04AM
Here's a statistic that tells you just how big your albatross is:
http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....ex_history
MyAngle| 6.22.12 @ 8:27PM
You are politicizing his crimes of lying to Congress. I cannot respect that.
Bob From District 9| 6.23.12 @ 1:26AM
"After all, how many cabinet secretaries begin their tenure by calling his fellow Americans "a nation of cowards" where it concerned the question of racism?
What can one say about a man who sees fit to drop a successfully prosecuted case of voter intimidation? If two members of the Ku Klux Klan had held a baton in front of polling station in Philadelphia, Mississippi, to intimidate black voters, Holder would have spared no effort to prosecute them. "
Holder spoke the truth, America is a nation of coward when it comes to race. Don't believe me? Have your readers ask their black friends about the subject. Express your views and ask them to respond.
Won't do it? Coward!
Your lie about the NBP incident is evidence of your bias. The case was not prosecuted as a crime, but pursued through a lawsuit. That was not Holder's decision, but the Bush administration. Holder put the decision through on the one NBP who was holding the nightstick, the other one was falsely sued, and Holder legitimately dropped that.
Comparing it to the KKK is another fraud on your part. The Bush administration had a case of several Minutemen, not just standing there, but actually approaching and challenging Hispanic voters in Arizona. One of them had a handgun, not a night stick, but the Bush administration took no action at all.
Try a little honesty for a change.
tj| 6.23.12 @ 9:57AM
This administration is also responsible for this:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/fam.....un-crimes/ Rest in peace Brian and Jamie, and 300 murdered Mexicans....