Posted on 01/21/2009 3:32:05 PM PST by chessplayer
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The initial confirmation vote for Eric Holder, President Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, was postponed for a week Wednesday after a rancorous meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Message to all Pubbie Congressmen and Senators (everyone let them know please): OBSTRUCT, OBJECT, FIGHT, EXPOSE! We don’t want Democrap lapdogs... you are expected to be the opposition. Act accordingly.
Lots of luck, Republicrats!
We have republicans who have a pair? God lets show them if they do...
Holder is an amoral politician unfit to be Attorney General. His race is meaningless.
It is IMPERATIVE that we coordinate and raise up as one tsunami conservative voice to tell our representatives, dem and rep alike, to NOT allow Holder to be confirmed under any circumstances. Not only has he already stated that he considers the “Fairness Doctrine” a possiblity, he also beleves you don’t have the right to own a gun. As recently as 2008, he argued in a brief for the Supreme Court that the “Second Amendment protects a ‘collective’ right, not an individual right”.
Details: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4307
GOA also has a letter you can send to your senators - or you can edit it and write your own. I did it tonight.
1-23-09 UPDATE ON HOLDER....
Pay attention to Eric Holder’s law firm and Gitmo detainees.
[A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. From the C & B website: the rest at at MM
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