Posted on 12/18/2010 8:22:41 AM PST by Kaslin
The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted 212-206 to ban the Obama administration from spending any funds to try terrorism suspects in civilian court instead of military commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly all miffed and vexed.
Holder's knots will tighten if the Senate's continuing funding resolution also includes such a provision. The Democrats' $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill that was just killed included a section that prohibited expending any funds for transporting foreign terrorist detainees like KSM to the U.S.
Since Congress failed to pass a new budget for 2011, the House passed a continuing resolution on Dec. 8 to continue funding the government next year. Somebody on the House Appropriations Committee, to Holder’s supposed shock and dismay, inserted a provision that prohibits federal funds from being used to prosecute terrorist detainees in federal criminal courts, according to Susan Crabtree writing for The Hill. When Democrat members learned about the trial provision, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer went into damage control mode. Pelosi's office did not return a call for comment, according to Crabtree.
Holder called it “an unprecedented grab of executive authority by Congress,” according to Crabtree. ”We have been unable to identify any parallel … in the history of our nation in which Congress has intervened to prohibit the prosecution of particular persons or crimes,” Holder opined.
It’s about subject matter, venue, and funding of federal courts, Mr. Holder. The Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide on those. You can look it up.
Holder should have seen it coming after the House Armed Services Committee unanimously a defense authorization bill last May that banned funding to build or modify any facility inside the U.S. to house Guantánamo detainees.
Public outrage had caused Holder to rethink his 2009 decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 act of war on America, and his co-conspirators in New York City a few blocks from Ground Zero. Holder has repeatedly promised for nearly a year that he’s a few weeks away from announcing his decision.
But then, Holder has been busy with other monumental tasks such as a trip to Switzerland, where he failed to persuade the World Cup Soccer Committee to choose the United States as the venue for either the 2018 or 2022 games. Instead, Russia will host in 2018 and the paradise known as Qatar is host in 2022. Maybe Holder was really trying to convince the Swiss to let him house and try KSM and company in an Alpine ski village.
On Dec. 11, he was off to reassure a San Francisco Muslim group that he wouldn’t let the FBI entice Muslim youngsters into becoming terrorists. Who thinks Holder’s date book will be filled up speaking to Christian and Jewish groups worried that their kids can be talked into committing mass murder?
Holder created his catch-22 when he ordered the charges dismissed against KSM and his co-conspirators in the military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As a result, they are still in custody without charges filed in any court anywhere, which makes a successful prosecution a bigger problem for Holder, who has repeatedly wrapped up the KSM cabal in the U.S. Constitution.
So there sat the befuddled Holder facing the wrath of his base on his left and the majority of
Americans on his right who don’t want KSM and his band of butchers tried in the United States. And what to his wondering eyes should appear but the Democrat leadership in the House so enraged by Obama’s tax deal with the Republicans that they turned on Obama and saved Holder’s briefs in the process?
Is Holder not smart enough to get it, or is he just faking outrage? Why wouldn’t he cherish the chance to put the blame on Mame when the anti-war Left goes ballistic if he decides to try KSM and his co-conspirators by military commissions in Gitmo, or, if he concedes that they are unlawful enemy combatants who can be held without trial?
Crabtree’s column sounds like Democrats have placed Obama on their naughty Christmas list for cutting deals with Republicans on the House resolution. Take for example, Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.): “This is a lack of leadership on the part of Obama. “I don’t know where the f*** Obama is on this or anything else. They’re AWOL.”
Altogether now, let’s sum it up with some seasonal style:
’Twas right before Christmas, when all through the House
All the Democrats were stirring at the White House Mouse;
The payback was hung by leadership with care,
In hopes that the Dems wouldn’t give it a stare;
Holder was nestled all snug in his bed,
While visions of terrorists danced in his head;
And Pelosi in her ’kerchief, and Hoyer in his cap,
Had just settled their brains for Obama’s trap,
When out on the floor there arose such a clatter,
They sprang from their beds to see what was the matter.
Away to the window they flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
They heard St. Moran exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
“Where the * expletive * is Obama on this cold winter’s night?”
The last time we saw him, he was hiding behind Bill Clinton.
Holder almost makes one look back to Janet Reno with fond memories....
... and the articles continue that the Tea Party is dead. :-) Even the DEMS are afraid of us.
"Attorney General Holder's Advisers Have Conflicts on Detainee Cases"
"Eric Holder's Law Firm Has a history of representing Terrorists"
"Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder's conflicted DOJ"
"Army Major (Hasan) Played Role in Presidential (Obama) Transition"
It is hoped that the new Congress will legislate permanent and irreversable laws to stop cold and forever any and all replays of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid train wreck perpetrated against the Republic in the last two years.
We do not need anything like a temporary hold, but a permanent stop to marxism run amok in government, beginning in 2011. This means from czars to regulatory tyranny.
If Obama loses in 2012, maybe he’ll grant pardons to KSM and the rest of the detainees at Gitmo just before he leaves, to “flip the bird” to the nation one more time.
Reno’s screw ups were due to Holder being her Deputy AG. Elian Gonzales. Waco, etc.
I wonder how “miffed” he’ll be when he is inevitably thrown in prison?
I thought it was Alberto Gonzales that was too stupid to tie his own shoes. One can only assume Holder is nothing but a political hack with an affirmative action law degree.
I wonder if he still thinks America is a bunch of cowards?
That would be a good Q to ask the POS during the Congressional hearings.
Terrorist supporting, moslem cuddling, kabba polishing ^%#*(@(##^*$@!
We need more of this: unprecedented grab(s) of executive authority by Congress.
The Constitution never meant the President to be this powerful, appoint czars over the people or act by fiat.
We need to reign in the Imperial Executive.
I hope that the new congress starts defunding rogue agencies. That would really get Big Gay Eric miffed.
“Holder almost makes one look back to Janet Reno with fond memories....”
So true. Really, an enemy within.
Is that similar to panties in a wad?
Seems a safe assumption.
This administration is living proof that affirmative action was a bad idea.
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