Posted on 04/14/2014 1:03:07 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Attorney General Eric Holder said he was careful not to allude to a racial component when criticizing Congress’s treatment of him last week.
"I didn't say there was a racial component. I was very careful not to say that," Holder told The Huffington Post on Monday.
Last week, Holder told a civil rights group he and President Obama’s administration have been subject to "unprecedented" and "ugly" attacks. He asked what attorney general or president in history had to deal with the same.
Instead of race, Holder said he was alluding to the "breakdown in civility" and the ability to cultivate relationships in Washington.
Holder questioned whether the 1964 Civil Rights Act would be able to pass in today's climate.
"If we had a Congress or an executive branch-legislative branch relationship in the way that we now have one, where there's this lack of civility, I wonder whether or not you could have forged the necessary compromises, things that involved personal relationships, in order to get such a landmark piece of legislation passed," he said.
He added: "And that's essentially what I was decrying — the fact that we can't somehow separate whatever our personal feelings are and focus on our functions as members of the executive branch or as legislators. I think that I've done a pretty good job in doing that, but it's frustrating at times."
Holder’s remarks during a speech last week came a day after testifying before a House panel where he faced a number of testy exchanges with Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).
"Forget about me, you look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee — it has nothing to do with me, forget that," Holder said during unscripted remarks before the National Action Network convention. "What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?"
Gohmert was also quick to point out last week that Holder "didn't say race, and he was very careful about that." The Texas congressman, however, maintained past GOP attorneys general have faced much harder criticism.
During the interview Monday, Holder said he is “still not quite sure I understand” comments Gohmert made last year in reference to casting “aspersions on my asparagus.”
Nonetheless, it “sort of stuck” in Holder’s mind and he mocked Gohmert with the line during their exchange last week.
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What a complete liar! There is no lack of civility because you punks are so far to the left you are communists! Americans don’t want communism!
What a liar.
Please explain and justify your involvement in the Government murder of children at Waco.
“I didn’t say there was a racial component.”
You just brought it up buddy! Think you’re so clever, don’tcha?
"Imply" OTOH.
Damn, this guy is the biggest racist we have ever had in any administration ever.
Wonder if Obama and Holder comprehend the harm they are doing to young black people when they protect themselves by saying “Any criticism of me or my policies will be immediately construed as racism and hence is not valid.” That race card is getting awfully frayed.
Holder is apparently NOT a scholar of American legal history/precedent.
I now see what he did there.....
Lying comes so easily, and naturally, when it is regularly practiced.
I apparently missed that one.
“What a liar.”
This the CURRENTLY approved Groupthink. You follow this line, no matter how different it is from YESTERDAY’s currently-approved Groupthink.
Only a RACIST would dare to remember yesterday’s groupthink.
You aren’t a RACIST, are you, Mr. Citizen?
Have you been audited lately?
Anything incriminating, like donations to a pro-life Org, on your hard-drive, comrade?
The civil rights act would not pass in the Senate because it is controlled by the Democrats,since it did pass in Congress where a bigger percentage of Republicans voted for it than Democrats,including Al Gore’s father who voted NO,just like Bill Clinton’s Hero William Fulbright,Democrats = hypocrite,liars and frauds
Rickys not ready for prime time!!
“Buddy”
Yeah, we all know what “buddy” means. Its code. ;~)
Eric the Red needs to be asked How Many other AGs were found in Contempt of Congress for covering up his involvement in running fully Auto weapons to Drug Cartels in Mexico that killed Hundreds of Mexican Nationals and Two Federal Agents to further his Political Agenga of Gun Control?
Semmens, where are you? lol
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