Posted on 06/03/2013 8:22:23 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
Brokaw believes Team Obama may be executing a Beltway "two-step," where named administration officials stand by their man on the record, while deputies telegraph the White House's true sentiments on background. In this case, the Times reports that West Wing insiders are trying to nudge Holder toward the door, his central crime being political maladriotness. Their "apoplexy" over the Attorney General isn't on the merits of his terrible decisions and obvious dishonesty, mind you. They're cool with his behavior -- from pressing for Bush-era recriminations, to backing New York City trials for Al Qaeda leaders, to presiding over and misleading Congress on Fast & Furious, to spying on journalists. What they can't abide is Holder's lack of political finesse in carrying out his agenda. These unnamed administration sources say they "wish" Holder would just step down on his own and spare everyone more headaches. What they fail to mention, of course, is that the Attorney General serves at the pleasure of the president. Barack Obama can pull the plug on Holder whenever he'd like;
Three prevailing theories:
(1) Holder knows too much. Because the Attorney General knows "where the bodies are buried" within this administration, Obama can't afford to alienate him by offering him up as a sacrificial lamb.
(2) Obama and Holder's relationship is very strong, so the former is treating the latter with extraordinary patience. Obama places a high premium on political loyalty; in addition to being a close friend and confidante, Holder has been a reliable ally in wielding his power to advance the president's agenda over the years.
(3) Cutting Holder loose in the thick of scandalmania (which appears to be expanding by the day) may accomplish little more than emboldening Obama's critics and fueling the media feeding frenzy. .
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The guillotine.
Now.
Holder will willingly take one for the team. The other two points are valid.
Oh, he’ll go alright. But, he’ll leave as normally (so the Administration and Press will report) as any 2nd Term Cabinet member or high level agency functionary would.
Nope, nothing wrong with his actions - he’s just going back to the civilian world, no huhu here. Watch Obama to detail secret service protection for him.
Friends of the Devil like it hot
Holder can’t resign yet because HE’S GOT A LOT OF PAPER SHREDDING AND ERASING OF DIGITAL MEDIA TO DO!!!
Two words:
1) Resign
2) Pardon
Absolutely! That had to be a pre requesite for the job, in the first place!
Ah! The Sandy Berger ploy - he's sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!
I'm no so sure he won't try to play for time and try to ride this out. Holder has an ego like Obama's, IMO.
Holder is the Rook on the political chessboard who protects King Obama. Holder was never meant to be “ the chief Law Enforcement Officer of The United States”. His job, since his appointment, has been to protect the Democrat party from the various federal law enforcement agencies. That’s why the Democrats are having trouble. It takes a long time to train a new Democrat puppet to take over for Holder. In the spirit of bipartisanship that Obama always talks about, let’s see him appoint a Republican Attorney General. And I mean a real Republican.
I suspect Holder has and will be wielding the long knife. Dude's not just some pussy cabinet member. He's a made man.
If any of you think that this guy, who was involved in both Waco and OKC is going to get served, well, I’d bet on Obama going to prison first.
Holder will leave but it will be portrayed as a decision that had been announced far in advance.
Published November 19, 2012
FoxNews.com
‘Attorney General Eric Holder will honor President Obama’s request to stay into the second term but will remain on the job only “for about a year,” Fox News confirmed Monday.’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/19/attorney-general-holder-to-stay-into-second-term/
Or to put it into the proper Mafia context, Holder is Obama's consigliere (in the original (not movie) sense of the word) i.e.,
"A real-life Mafia consigliere is generally the number three person in a crime family, after the boss and underboss in most cases. The boss, underboss, and consigliere constitute a three-man ruling panel, or 'Administration.' When a boss gives orders, he issues them in private either to the consigliere or directly to his caporegimes as part of the insulation between himself and operational acts."
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People are crazy wanting to resign, bring him to the Hill once a week and ask questions till Obambi’s poll numbers are in the 30s. To make the dems sweat, drip drip drip every single scandal.
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