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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYes Holder is being LYNCHED, Yes I said it Lynched
Because the GOP/TeaHadists can't lynch the uppity black guy in the WH so they got after the next available uppity one who DARES to enforce the voting act.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)But right now it's just ring toss.
MADem
(135,425 posts)while he keeps running his big fat do-nuthin' mouth!
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/06/22/2190470/fast-and-furious-investigation.html
What should Congress be investigating? The obvious first step is learning how officials in two administrations convinced themselves it was sensible to stand back and watch as powerful weapons passed into the hands of Mexican drug smugglers.
Then Congress should look into the overall flow of firearms from the United States into Mexico. The Fast and Furious weapons were just a small part of a much larger problem. Mexican officials have complained for years that lax U.S. gun laws have the effect of worsening drug-related violence along the border. The damage done by cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine smuggled north across the border is mirrored by the damage done by guns smuggled south.
If Issa really wants to save U.S. and Mexican lives, he should convene hearings on banning the sale of high-powered weapons. I think Holder would be happy to testify.
Of course, that won't get Issa his Hundred Percent rating from the NRA!!!
KatChatter
(194 posts)yet Issa has totally ignored the Bush years and he has refused to get testimony from all the ATF people involved.
President Obama needs to mess with the Pubs and get on TV and state that the GOP seems to think there is a problem in the DOJ so I have directed the DOJ to stop the enforcement of the voting rights act and I am asking the UN along with election monitors to over see the November Election.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Let it be known that if Holder has to hand over more documents they might INCRIMINATE Bush and the boys! Obama must play Hardball with this twit ISSA. I'm sure there is lots of stuff that could embarrass the Bush administration.
former9thward
(31,987 posts)Anything less is a cover up.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)amd get her to release them.
former9thward
(31,987 posts)The documents are in the hands of the DOJ. She is not in charge of them.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Saturday night humor - not working
KatChatter
(194 posts)the memo's from the DOJ to the WH AFTER Issa's silly investigation started which is the document the WH wants to protect by executive privilege.
If you really want to get to the bottom of things Issa voted FOR GunWalker back in 06.
Issa has been involved since the beginning with this operation he is just looking to smear this administration.
former9thward
(31,987 posts)Holder has released 70,000 documents to his Inspector General. He has only released about 7,000 to Congress. If Bush is behind this then release them all. Anything less is a cover up.
BumRushDaShow
(128,896 posts)GarroHorus
(1,055 posts)It's the blatant nature of the racism that gets me. They don't even try to hide it any more.
KatChatter
(194 posts)it it not like they will get more votes if they go back to hiding it.
I guess they got tired of being in the closet so to speak.
joycejnr
(326 posts)...Monica-Lite safari.
banned from Kos
(4,017 posts)The GOP is desperately attacking any Obama administration person they can.
Remember, they hate Warren Buffett and he is rich and white and not even in the administration.
frylock
(34,825 posts)and well, he's white.
TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)to push the failed drug war gets ya.
Be damn hard to have this "lynching" if he had prosecuted and refused to continue a super stupid BushCo. program.
So, is the story now that "our Eric" is innocent as a new lamb, knowing nothing of this? Or is it a "lynching" because the TeaPubliKlans are predictably doing what they do and you expect to get away with criminality and extreme stupidity as well? Sauce for the goose thinking, maybe???
Good luck with that delusional thought process. "Sensible Centrists" seem soooo betrayed, did you think you were joining "The Club"???
THIS IS VERBATIM WHAT WE WARNED ALL YOU SILLY "SENSIBLE" TYPES WOULD BE THE END RESULT.
To add insult to injury to get caught continuing a BushCo. scam and think it is okay not because of doing the right thing the wrong way or innocently doing right and being targeted.
I find the outrage interesting as hell, no one at all seems upset because "our Eric" is innocent but because he doesn't get a pass on being BushCo. League which indicates to me why there was no will to prosecute, many of our own wanted to do and get away with the same stuff.
Bush started it is a fucking immoral and stupid argument. You don't want rule of law, you want our powerful and connected to get away with the same shit and then turn around and holler lynching because Holder is black when he isn't given the freedom to do harmful, stupid, counter-productive, and absurd shit.
I'll defend "our Eric" on this count if he had nothing to do with this and shut it down as soon as he knew. If he willfully oversaw this criminal shit then he can rot.
indepat
(20,899 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)This has all the hallmarks of the politicization of the department of Justice, except this time the politicization is coming from outside in preparation for the Fall campaign, instead of from the inside to avert obeying the laws.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)He did worse to the white governor of California, Gray Davis. Issa just hates all Democrats and wants power. He's corrupt down to his very soul with his hunger for power.
aikoaiko
(34,169 posts)John Edwards in the oval office and the AG was not black. They hate us when we're in charge.
RZM
(8,556 posts)So they are taking their shot. It could have been anybody. Had a scandal emerged out Hillary's office, Biden's office, or the office of anybody in the administration, they would be doing the exact same thing. The only difference is that nobody would call it a 'lynching.' But otherwise it would be pretty similar.
This is the normal trench warfare. Nothing more and nothing less. Do you really think they would hesitate for one second to pursue a white administration figure if they thought they had a shot at them? Have you forgotten the 1990s?