I'm sick of Mike Papantonio BASHING Eric Holder

[bigdarryl]

I don't know what the hell his problem is but I've heard this guy on for the pass two weeks going after Holder on the voter ID laws in the country.Mike is accusing Eric Holder of not having the heart and spine to go after the states that pasted all these voter ID laws.Mike seems to have it in for Eric Holder he talks bad about Holder as if he's a rethug

[FLAprogressive]

1. Gotta go after those pot smokers, after all. Who cares about voter suppression?

[yurbud]

4. and those pot smokers are way more dangerous than say Wall Street banks that

broke the world economy through intentional fraud.

Some of those pot heads might eat all the chips in their parents house, forcing their mothers to make an extra trip to the grocery store.

[yurbud]

2. so those states DIDN'T pass those laws to suppress voting and/or Holder is actually fighting them?

Or is your beef simply that pointing out Holder's inaction of voter suppression makes the party look bad in an election year?

If that last one is your point, a good counter argument could be made that the administration's inaction on issues like this could contribute to apathy among some of the Democratic Party base, which could make this election closer than it should be.

[bigdarryl]

7. Joe Madison covered this issue about the Justice Department on his show a month ago

Because a caller called in his show also accusing of Holder not doing nothing.Madison is a very good friend of Eric Holder and he said he talked to Holder and the Justice Department is going after these states Joe also said that they have to do this state by state and some of these states that passed these laws don't fall under the voting rights act and Madison also let his listeners know just because the media hasn't reported on it doesn't mean it's not happening.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Thank you

Seems DU has more vitriol against yet another black man (including the constant skewering of the President) than was dished out against Bushies like Gonzo and Ascroft.

Some here want to tell the enemy every step being made so they can feel comfortable.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

17. Van Jones = good; Eric Holder = bad.

Does that make me only half racist?

News flash: Black men are just as capable of being incompetent/corrupt/sell-outs as white men, and no one is going to hold their criticism because a True Believer lazily charges "racism."

You joined in 2008 so you know all about DU during the Bush years, right? Of course, you lurked!

[Kelvin Mace]

26. This has nothing to do with race

I had the same criticisms of the old white guys who created many of the practices Holder now defends. I do not know what DU site you were on, but there was certainly tens, probably hundreds of thousands of posts critical of Ashcroft and Gonzalez from 2001-2008. I probably wrote a few hundred myself.

[frylock]

28. you joined in 2008..

how the fuck would you know what vtriol was dished out against Bushies like Gonzo and Ascroft? there was plenty, so you can file your fucking race card back where you found it.

[mmonk]

19. He can apply section 2 vs section 5.

[yurbud]

48. he doesn't have to wait for the MSM--if he was doing the right thing, he could get the word out via

lefty sources on the internet.

The buzz about it would energize the Democratic base and possibly even percolate up and force the MSM to notice--but it wouldn't have to do the latter to have a positive effect.

[fascisthunter]

3. because he's right to

[bigdarryl]

8. Mother fucker ain't right about shit

Holder is going after these states on voter ID laws Mike is full of shit he just doesn't like Holder

[99Forever]

20. Wow, your use of extra vulgar profanity sure ..

.. adds a ton of credibility to your position.

[bigtree]

23. fucking right

fuck all that noise

[fascisthunter]

45. well... ok then

[Laurian]

5. Frankly, I agree with Mike.

I can't think of anything noteworthy that Holder has one since taking office.

[bigdarryl]

11. Why don't you take the time and research the Justice Department accomplishment since he's been there

just because the media doen't talk about it doesn't mean he's not doing nothing

[Laurian]

21. Since I'm so ill informed, tell me what he's done that is as important as

the unmet priorities listed by hifiguy in response #15.

[Kelvin Mace]

29. I can't get past the whole

"we can kill any American we want" part of the accomplishments.

It is pretty damned hard to be worse than BushCo, but Holder and his boss have managed.

Yeah, they did a few good things, but the evil they did/do far outweighs the good.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. That's all he and Ed Schultz do all day long! I've had to turn them off.

I can't even listen to Pap when Ed is out. It's an Obama-Holder bashfest all day long!

[villager]

9. I'm sick of Eric Holder, and his completely misplaced enforcement priorities.

n/t

[Peregrine Took]

14. + 100000 n/t

[Aerows]

34. [phone]

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Holder is so busy trying to negate the will of the people in Medical Marijuana

States that he spends too little time on Republicans trying to negate the will of the people that elect the man that gives Holder a job better than being lawyer to corporations as he was previous to his gig at the DOJ....

[Aerows]

37. It's so much more important

to keep medical patients from receiving medicine than it is to prosecute real criminals. After all, his prosecution rate might suffer if he did real work, and he can't possibly have that happen.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Then CHANGE the fucking station. nt

[Aerows]

36. How about Eric Holder

Change his profession and do something other than be the lamest Attorney General in a LONG ASS time?

There wouldn't be complaints about him then. He should just go away. He's horrible.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

40. He's been pretty awful. As far as challenging these laws at this point. I doubt it will have much of

an effect just a few months from the election.

[Aerows]

41. I hope when Obama gets into office a second time

He kicks this jackass to the curb. He looks like some sort of social climber that only prosecutes cases he can win to inflate his self-worth.

Holder SUCKS.

[hifiguy]

15. Hard to tell that he isn't.

Major Wall $treet criminal fraudsters indicted - 0
Robosigning foreclosure schemes prosecuted - 0
War criminals prosecuted - 0
Voter suppression schemes stopped to date - 0

Medical MJ clinics busted - hundreds

Fatcs are facts.

[Kelvin Mace]

30. Don't go confusing them with facts now

Apparently, if you help a little old lady across the street every now and then, pick up litter, recycle, and keep a few minor promises, the fact that you condone murder, torture and fraud can be excused.

And apparently, anyone who objects to that ethical view point is racially motivated.

Who knew?

[Aerows]

38. Eric Holder makes a mockery

of the DOJ.

[Aerows]

42. Exactly

He makes a mockery of justice by not prosecuting real criminals, and then busting people who had real need because they were somehow in his mind subverting the law. Holder is a horrible AG, probably one of the worst ones we've had in decades under a Democratic President.

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. Mr. Papantonio must not be aware of Crawford v. Marion County Election Board

I suspect that Mr. Holder is aware of it.

[Aerows]

43. A lot of people are aware of it

It doesn't change the fact that Holder is about as effective as an umbrella in a hurricane, which is to say, not much at all.

[mmonk]

18. Mike says what I wish I could say in a public forum.

[Kelvin Mace]

24. Would this be the same Eric Holder who

1) Claimed that a secret committee meeting to decide who can be assassinated meets the legal definition of "due process" as specified in the Constitution?

2) Who is leading the charge to shut down medical marijuana clinics?

3) Who failed to prosecute any real criminals on Wall Street?

4) Who has turned a blind eye to war crimes?

5) Who is okay with warrantless wiretaps?

6) Who until quite recently defended DOMA?

7) Who has been silent on police abuse of protester's civil rights?

8) Who believes in unlimited detention without charge?

9) Who constantly fights to keep evidence of torture secret?

That's just a start, give me some time and I can come up with many more reasons Holder is no friend to civil liberties, justice and the rule of law.

It is nice that he is on the correct side of the voting issue, but in most otehr matters Holder is a disgrace.

[Casandia]

27. Thank you Kelvin - spot on!

Keep Holder's feet to the fire Pap!

[Logical]

32. Great post, let's see the OP respond!

[Kelvin Mace]

47. Looks like the OP gave up

[calimary]

35. Priorities are kinda telling, I must say.

[Oilwellian]

44. The increased prosecution of whistleblowers n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

46. Thank you! Forgot about that one.

[Autumn]

25. I have to say, I'm sick of Eric Holder

and his priorities.

[Logical]

31. Papantonio knows about 1000 times more than you do about this!!!

[Aerows]

33. Holder has a lot to answer for

Not the least of which is failure to prosecute Bush and Cheney for war crimes, and then he went on to prosecute elderly medical marijuana patients.

If there is a treatment that helps improve the quality of life for the elderly and the sick, I am completely against any action being taken.

I detest Holder for his attacks on MM clinics, and I don't even use it, because I have no reason to use it. He's the equivalent of banning antibiotics because they cure skin diseases, due to the fact that amputating surgeons would suffer a loss of income (like the 1800's) if the limb healed before they needed to cut it off.

I despise Holder and his lackadaisical hand toward law unless it was drug war BS. That is no reflection on Obama, unless he keeps that idiot around for a second term. Holder is an asshole, and never should have been part of President Obama's picks to begin with.

[Egalitarian Thug]

39. I'm sick of having this incompetent boob being "the decider" of which laws he feels

like enforcing and giving a pass to worst criminals this nation has seen for decades because they're in the club.

So I guess we're just going to be unhappy for the time being.