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Jennifer Rubin was right all along when she wrote piece after piece during the transition arguing that Eric Holder was unfit to be Attorney General. The man is on a mission to undermine the very rules of representative democracy. Hans von Spakovsky has perhaps the most important column of the year so far in today's Wall Street Journal, explaining the myriad ways that Holder is rigging the rules. Letting Black Panthers go scot free; forbidding Georgia from making sure that only citizens vote; refusing to make Missouri clean up its voter rolls; on and on it goes. This is dangerous. Indeed, it is worse than dangerous, but I fear saying what it is because Holder would find a way to send his goons after me for some newly invented category of hate speech.

This rigging of the rules through the Justice Department is exactly what I warned against in my very first post-election column last November. Here are some excerpts:

These New Alinskyites who are taking over the White House, combined with the most leftist congressional leadership in memory, will not let us play by the same rules under which conservatives recovered from those earlier debacles. They will try to drastically tilt the playing field, seed our side of the field with land mines and, in short, rig the process to make it next to impossible for the political right, or Republicans, to recover. And they are likely to succeed in at least some of these designs. It will begin with their efforts to secure a filibuster-proof majority of 60 senators (including the two independents)....

Watch the left use these tactics and others to pass even more liberalized voting laws -- an open invitation to even more fraud that is more creative, easier to hide, and less challengeable in court.

Watch the left use these tactics and others to pass even more liberalized voting laws -- an open invitation to even more fraud that is more creative, easier to hide, and less challengeable in court.

Watch what Michael Barone called the Obama "thugocracy" use the Justice Department to stifle dissent. Anybody who complains about vote fraud will be charged with "vote suppression." Anybody who complains about DoJ's actions will be charged with interfering with an investigation. Anybody who denies having interfered will be charged with perjury.

Meanwhile, we now await further word from the Supreme Court on whether or not they will stop the Obama administration from trampling over the constitutional contract clause and its bankruptcy clause. It already is misusing other "authority" falsely claimed under the already constitutionally dubious TARP. And so on, in an "industrial policy" suspiciously reminiscent of Mussolin's economic fascism. But keep watching: Holder Justice Department is Ground Zero for the ground assault against the building blocks of representative democracy. These legal maneuvers must be smothered in their cradles.

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Pete| 6.9.09 @ 11:03AM

A "Department of Cowards?"

And racists.

Oldefarte| 6.9.09 @ 11:45AM

This is extremely informative, but not surprising. Even though I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, I saw this occurring well BEFORE 11/4/08 [and most intelligent voters SHOULD HAVE seen it also, but sadly did not]. Again, the question now is WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT? The only possible solution is the voting booth, and unless/until hard-working, decent, taxpaying citizen-voters exercise their vote to rid this country of this problem, it will simply continue [and all of us will continue gripping, moaning and groaning about same]. We don't need further tea parties----we need organized voter efforts, with informed parties telling us which candidates represent courageous, conservative future CHANGE, so that we voters can take the necessary action. We need to be informed as to who, what, when, where and why of upcoming governatorial, senatorial, representative, presidential elections to cast our conservative votes for. This efforts must be organized and informative, just as Democrats do in their trojun-horsed methods [giving away cigarettes, booze, money,etc to those voting for their candidates]. We don't need those inducements----we just need information on conservative candidates that should be voted for [in all states, in all districts]. The current administration can be stopped if we all do our part in getting ourselves [and business associates, friends, church/family members, etc] to the polling booths when appropriate!!!!

Dan| 6.9.09 @ 12:06PM

These are the kinds of creatures we're at war against, and yet Quin, just a week or so ago, said that we don't need men like David Vitter.

Against such creatures, we'll need every single Vitter we can find.

Old Texican| 6.9.09 @ 12:20PM

Oldefarte: Amen, brother!

Boy, we old toots are going to be the sorriest looking troops anyone ever saw! (Grin)

Spectator persons: Olde farte's plea for a list of candidates is well spoken.
Can you begin that list with 2010 slots? and make it a "sticky thread" and perhaps flush comments once per week or something?
...A tremendous public service...

Pete| 6.9.09 @ 1:27PM

The NRA website does a decent job of identifying conservative (or at least pro-2nd amendment) candidates if you can't find another source.

http://www.nrapvf.org/Elections/Default.aspx

Old Texican| 6.9.09 @ 1:36PM

Thanks Pete!
..but you know, I truly hate to contemplate falling back to our last ditch...ie: the 2nd amendment and the consequences of having to enforce it.

I want Free Assembly of the people to make the message firm.

Daisy| 6.9.09 @ 1:45PM

Quin, are you really afraid of Holder?

Daisy| 6.9.09 @ 1:49PM

What is 'IT', Quin? Could you write it in code so Holder won't understand?

Pete| 6.9.09 @ 1:49PM

Hate to contemplate it, but according to recent gun/ammo sales, many Americans are not taking any chances. I hope that sends the appropriate message to our corrupt, power hungry ruling class.