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Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:06 PM

Pelosi To Boycott Holder Contempt Vote

Source: Talkingpointsmemo

3:56 PM EDT, THURSDAY JUNE 28, 2012
Pelosi To Boycott Holder Contempt Vote

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will boycott the vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

“I urge my colleagues to do what they want as far as walking off. I, myself, had said I was coming to this floor to vote against this resolution. I thought it was so wrong that there was no question to take the opportunity to vote no. But listening to the debate, almost unbelievable, not that what they’re saying is believable but unbelievable that they would say it,” Pelosi said.

Reported by Ryan J. Reilly



Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/pelosi-to-boycott-holder-contempt-vote

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Reply Pelosi To Boycott Holder Contempt Vote (Original post)
flpoljunkie Jun 2012 OP
Skinner Jun 2012 #1
craigmatic Jun 2012 #2
DallasNE Jun 2012 #15
The Wielding Truth Jun 2012 #3
nolabear Jun 2012 #4
freshwest Jun 2012 #18
Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2012 #5
MaeScott Jun 2012 #14
harun Jun 2012 #19
wordpix Jun 2012 #28
lobodons Jun 2012 #6
flpoljunkie Jun 2012 #7
Purveyor Jun 2012 #9
Tx4obama Jun 2012 #12
Voice for Peace Jun 2012 #13
Kolesar Jun 2012 #26
flpoljunkie Jun 2012 #10
flpoljunkie Jun 2012 #16
Purveyor Jun 2012 #8
The Wielding Truth Jun 2012 #11
Peaceful Protester Jun 2012 #17
freshwest Jun 2012 #21
katty Jun 2012 #20
Kteachums Jun 2012 #22
onehandle Jun 2012 #23
permatex Jun 2012 #24
Ineeda Jun 2012 #25
louis-t Jun 2012 #27

Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:08 PM

1. Nice.

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:09 PM

2. Pelosi is a boss.

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Response to craigmatic (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:43 PM

15. I Have Always Like Pelosi

While nobody is perfect I think she has always done a very respectible job.

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:13 PM

3. I am so proud of this woman! She is a fighter! I am right there with you, Nancy!

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Any rep with a free brain should join he. This is a kangaroo court!

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:20 PM

4. I do believe the dems are beginning to get righteous.

I hope they know the wind is shifting in their favor and take full advantage of it.

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Response to nolabear (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:19 PM

18. +1

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:24 PM

5. The entire Progressive Caucus is joining the walkout

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Response to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #5)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:40 PM

14. That's good to hear. nt

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Response to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #5)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:21 PM

19. Our only true allies in DC, the Progressive Caucus

They need our support.

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Response to harun (Reply #19)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 01:34 PM

28. +1

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:32 PM

6. Gonna lose the NRA endorsement

She's not gonna get the NRA endorsment!!

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Response to flpoljunkie (Reply #7)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:34 PM

9. 10 Dems voting with the pukes so far. eom

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Response to Purveyor (Reply #9)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:38 PM

12. Total now: 17 n/t

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Response to Purveyor (Reply #9)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:39 PM

13. looks like 17 total

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and who's the R who voted NAY??

ok: Two Republicans, Reps. Steven LaTourette of Ohio and Scott Rigell of Virginia, opposed the resolution.

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Response to Voice for Peace (Reply #13)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:56 PM

26. Good for Steve. I should send him a thank you email...eom

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Response to flpoljunkie (Reply #7)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:37 PM

10. A link to MSNBC online. Shows Democrats walking out and now speaking!

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Response to flpoljunkie (Reply #10)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:45 PM

16. Photo from Talkingpointsmemo... An old fashioned walkout.

Ryan J. Reilly@ryanjreilly
We've got a good old fashioned walkout #FastandFurious pic.twitter.com/RSzqSOMp



http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/photo-house-democrats-walk-out-of-holder-contempt

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:33 PM

8. Watching the dems file out of the chamber as I type. Sweet. eom

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:38 PM

11. God! I am soooooo Proud of them!!! Yeaaaaaay!!!!

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:13 PM

17. The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal


http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/?hpt=hp_t2

A Fortune investigation reveals that the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. How the world came to believe just the opposite is a tale of rivalry, murder, and political bloodlust.

By Katherine Eban

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Response to Peaceful Protester (Reply #17)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:24 PM

21. And yet, knowing this full well, the House voted for a lie!

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I'd seen this before but forget the thread. Thanks for the link. Welcome to DU.

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:21 PM

20. Go Nancy!

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:32 PM

22. Use your umbrella and whack those Republican Idiots Nancy!

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Here we see the NRA controling the money and we watch the make-believe Dems vote against Holder. What a conspiracy they have mustered up. This started under Bush and let's make sure the people know that. I'm sick of watching these people in the House make a mockery of our President and his staff. They will do anything to take the President down and we have to do things to bring him up. I have a feeling that they will all hang like worms on the end of a hook before all of this is over. I told you our President is a genious! He has this one figured out, also! Don't allow this to take the joy out of this day. We will once again have our day!

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:56 PM

23. The once and future Speaker. nt

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 06:54 PM

24. I watched the whole thing on C-Span

 

Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer's speeches were spot on and then the walk out was the icing on the cake.
Tomorrows headlines: Dems finally grow a pair and stand up to the Repubs

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:11 PM

25. Which DINOs voted with the thugs?

I've looked but I can't find a list. I intend to let them all know that there will be repercussions.

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 01:33 PM

27. Here are the key paragraphs:

"Rep. Issa's committee has flagged this document as proof that the agents chose to walk guns. But prosecutors had determined, Voth says, that the "transfer of firearms" was legal. Agents had no choice but to keep investigating and start a wiretap as quickly as possible to gather evidence of criminal intent.

Ten days after the meeting with Hurley, a Saturday, Jaime Avila, a transient, admitted methamphetamine user, bought three WASR-10 rifles at the Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Ariz. The next day, a helpful Lone Wolf employee faxed Avila's purchase form to ATF to flag the suspicious activity. It was the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, so the agents didn't receive the fax until Tuesday, according to a contemporaneous case report. By that time, the legally purchased guns had been gone for three days. The agents had never seen the weapons and had no chance to seize them. But they entered the serial numbers into their gun database. Two of these were later recovered at Brian Terry's murder scene."

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