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To: Nero Germanicus
Did the Republicans in the House hold the first black Attorney General in Contempt of Congress for his complicity in Fast & Furious/Operation Gunrunner? Is the first black Attorney General the only Attorney General in the history of the Republic to have a contempt citation voted against him?

These are not words a conservative would use. Our side makes no particular note of a person's race unless it is particularly germane to a point. It is the Liberals who see attacks against Obama and Holder as race driven.

Likewise, the only people who would likely know whether or not another attorney general in history ever had a contempt citation voted against him would be someone who was so concerned that the present one did, that they went to the trouble to check to see if it ever happened before. Again, this is something about which a conservative would not even be curious.

I think you may have just done yourself in with that bit of commentary.

64 posted on 05/09/2014 6:57:42 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Since one of the issues under discussion was whether the House Republicans were intimidated from pursuing the eligibility issue for fear of being called racist, I think the fact that the House Republicans voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress to be highly relevant as to whether they fear the charge of racism or not.

Fox News led its first story on Holder being held in contempt with the following paragraph: “The GOP-led House voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to provide key information pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, making Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/28/house-holds-holder-contempt/


66 posted on 05/09/2014 7:59:06 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus (PALIN/CRUZ: 2016)
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To: DiogenesLamp

yep! A troll on salary.


73 posted on 05/10/2014 12:42:15 AM PDT by wintertime
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