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The Spectacle Blog
Attorney General Holder told Congress he doesn’t read his memos — rather he leaves that task to his staff. Now Holder’s former chief of staff, Kevin Ohlson, who seeks confirmation to the Armed Forces Court of Appeals, says he didn’t read memos either.
Just what does it take to get the Obama Justice Department to read?
Reading Holder
By Asher Embry
With all those legal briefs and such
He worried that he reads too much.
It started quite a while ago.
He found that reading’s much too slow.
So legal “research” starts and ends
With soft entreaties from his friends.
He did no reading, not a stitch,
Yet pushed to pardon crook Marc Rich.
I did not know — that was his
vow
To Congress then as Congress now.
My staff, not I, get in the weeds
And so I’m ignorant — he pleads.
(Staff now admit they, too, don’t read;
They choose to follow Holder’s lead.)
So Eric Holder’s made a stand
As highest lawyer in the land:
He’ll let no memos cloud his eyes;
Too bad if Agent Terry dies.
(You can read more of Asher Embry’s Political Verse at www.politicalverse.com.)
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PattyMor| 11.16.11 @ 12:51PM
Well the Sgt. Schultz routines just isn't believeable. Same with Rahm Emmanuel who doesn't remember working on Solyndra.
Conservative Bob| 11.16.11 @ 5:24PM
The blossoming corruption of this administration is enabled and encouraged by the knowledge the press will not investigate or shed unwanted light. They do not even feel obligated to proffer a believable excuse.
We see daily evidence the peril this nation faces without a free and honest press.
rn| 11.17.11 @ 3:13AM
This is just like our politicians who'll always (and forevermore) say in their defense, "Whoa! Who me? No, no. Don't blame me for nationalized health care. I never read that bill."
This will be the new normal.
How to survive the ebbs, flows, and pitfalls of high office in D.C.? Well, sonny, increase your survivability rate significantly by purposely neglecting to read anything.
One exception: Your pay voucher.
AE, thanks for the good lines above.
Marc Jeric| 11.17.11 @ 3:32PM
Is there anything worse than having a marxist-racist as the Attorney General?