Posted on 01/10/2013 6:45:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
Attorney General Eric Holder, a lightning rod of criticism from Republicans, is staying on in his job as President Barack Obama starts his second term.
A White House official said on Wednesday that Holder is among the Cabinet members who will remain in their position. He has been working on Vice President Joe Biden’s task force on finding ways to reduce gun violence after last month's mass killing in Newtown, Connecticut.
It is rare for an attorney general to serve more than four years. …
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He is drunk with power.
Eric Holder is very necessary to this administration. Holder is the one who covers up Obama’s & his minions’ messes, wrong doings and criminal acts by hiding the evidence, looking elsewhere and stonewalling records requests. He is loyal and well paid for his dirty works.
you are right...either an appointment to supreme court of a pardon for all his other high flaunting sh*t
If Holder doesn’t stay for the full second term, his replacement will be just as bad.
Just wait, it is rumored that Obama is about to appoint the former governor of WA state to head the EPA. There could not be more politically mired candidate for the office, it would be impossible.
While earning the strong backing of the WA State environmentalists, she has come out in support of Obama’s new sub-bituminous coal ports and terminals, saying that she was just under so much pressure from the Obama administration, that she had to do it. (that’s what she told the Sierra club). The truth about the coal ports and terminals is that new ports cannot be built without government money, yours and mine, because sub-bituminous coal only sells for $12.35 / ton and costs more to ship than it is worth. A new coal port will be like another Solyndra or Shepherds Flat wind farm, but Gregoire is behind it all the way, even if it is an environmental disaster for her home state.
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