"It's irresponsible, unprofessional, reprehensible, and despicable."
Posted on 05/17/2010 9:32:24 AM PDT by jazusamo
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder’s recent comment about Arizona’s illegal immigration law demonstrates that he is either blatantly disingenuous, or that the most powerful attorney in the country is incompetent.
Holder admitted under questioning last Thursday that he has not read the Arizona statute, nor been briefed on the 16-page document by his staff. Nevertheless, our nation’s top law enforcement official has repeatedly said that the law is unconstitutional, misguided, and will be challenged. It turns out his expert legal opinion is nothing more than hysterical, and mostly erroneous, hyperbole—the kind that flies in the face of the vast majority of this nation’s citizens who support Arizona’s refusal to abide continued federal inaction.
When a lawyer with the power and authority of the attorney general’s office offers public legal opinions based on “what I’ve heard about the law,” I suspect that he is looking at a loser case, one he does not want to argue in court.
America, the attorney general’s “client,” deserves better legal advice than we got on this one. In less than ten minutes, Arizona’s law can found on the Internet, read, and most importantly, understood. It challenges credibility that Holder, or someone from his staff, has not read the law. President Obama should demand a public apology to the nation from Holder for judicial incompetence, or replace him with an attorney capable of offering informed legal opinions—after reading the law.
There is more to Holder’s brazen obfuscation. Mexican President Felipe Calderon travels this week to Washington, D.C., to officially lodge Mexico’s protest over the Arizona law with Obama and Congress. Calderon, the leader of the most corruption-riddled government in North America, should be told to go home and address the problems from the Mexican side. When the border is secured, the smuggling, home invasions, kidnappings, identity thefts, shootings and government-sanctioned illegal invasions stop, Calderon will find that Americans are willing to talk about a fair solution for the millions of Mexicans already here in the U.S. illegally.
Obama and Holder’s irresponsible misinterpretations of Arizona’s action encouraged a wave of boycotts. The financial harm impacts both Arizona and Mexico. Requests to the Mexican Consulate’s offices in Arizona for papers to re-immigrate to Mexico went from 10 per month to 100 each week since the law’s passage. The dollar amounts of wages paid in the U.S. and sent back to Mexico are declining along with Arizona’s lost tourism business. Arizonans whose businesses and jobs are taking the hit will remember those comments on Election Day.
Los Angeles, a city deeply in debt, has joined the boycott. The only Arizonans celebrating L.A.’s gesture are “Los Suns,” the Phoenix basketball team. Given the Suns slim odds of defeating the Lakers in the NBA Western Conference finals, the politically opinionated team can now hope to avoid a sweep if the boycott means the L.A. team cannot travel to Phoenix. The Lakers would have to forfeit several games.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig wisely declined to play political games with the All-Star game next year in Phoenix. True dedication to a heartfelt and controversial stance requires more than wearing a jersey with a semi-bilingual translation on it. Maybe Selig actually read the law.
Boycott Arizona, first called for by Arizona’s own Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, has hurt the state but also generated an unexpected backlash. Arizona business owners are pulling millions of dollars away from the cities boycotting the state, and thousands of the same people who polled in favor of the law are planning desert vacations this year.
This is Obama’s opportunity to demonstrate to the country that immigration reform really is a top domestic priority and not tawdry upcoming-election showboating. After decrying the twisted hype and hyperbole that erroneously defines hot-button social issues, the President should remember his own words—then step up and become the leader America needs.
When I read your article, there were comments posted yet.
By the time mine got it there were 19 already.
Can’t stand the turd.
Good one!
When placed in that context, it is truly frightening.
To the headline: yes.
Yes!
Absolutely. And being a 'fool for the lie' makes it all so easy to be no more than that.
yes
Mostly traitor, like most everyone else on Obama's team. Liar comes a strong second. Commies have to lie about what they are.
Is this a question or an observation?
I'll take "both" for $500, jazusamo.
It is absolutely amazing the reporting, print and all other media, has been so totally WRONG. They insist on saying that Hispanics (and others) can be stopped just for being brown.
That is absolutely, specifically forbidden by the law. Not that some idiot cop won’t try it, but heaven help is ass if he does because he will get a new one to replace the one the head cop hands him to replace his old one. {well, you know what I mean}
People should realize that California has an identical law in their criminal statutes.
Calling a politician a liar is redundant, but a lawyer giving an opinion on a statute before taking the trouble to read it is irresponsible, unprofessional and reprehensible.
Correct...Zer0 and his “yes man” Holder have misrepresented the law by their criticisms and the enemedia couldn’t support them fast enough because of their own leftist leanings.
Just because a law can be abused doesn’t make that law unconstitutional, if it did we’d have no laws.
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Eric Holder: A Liar or Incompetent?
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And a gun-grabber.
Although I was in California at the time, my understanding is that
Holder, as a US attorney, appropriated Federal resources to defeat the
first try at getting concealed-carry in Missouri.
Thank goodness it finally got enacted, along with the castle doctrine.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
"It's irresponsible, unprofessional, reprehensible, and despicable."
God help us in our day, We cry out for healing in our land, Forgive our offenses, we are unworthy, and rebels, help us turn back to You in fullness. We bow down in repentance before You. In Jesus name, amen.
Loose- Not tight.
Lose- To suffer defeat or misplace.
Ping!
“Holder admitted under questioning last Thursday that he has not read the Arizona statute...”
We can all thank Texas Congressman Ted Poe for asking Holder the hard questions. Poe was on the radio today describing the incident.
Cong. Poe did an outstanding job of crucifying Holder at the House Committee hearing. I viewed the entire thing on video, it was beautiful.
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