JUST DO IT!
Posted on 10/05/2011 11:41:13 PM PDT by neverdem
Be careful what you wish for, House Republicans, over the metastasizing Operation "Fast and Furious" scandal at the U.S. Department of Justice. You just might get it.
A Special Prosecutor, I mean. That's exactly what, as we move into the 2012 election year, the GOP shouldn't want.
From a GOP political perspective, Operation "Fast and Furious" is the kind of thing you pray to Jesus for. A year before a national election, the story breaks that some numb nuts at Main DOJ -- the agency formerly known as ATF, to be specific -- conceived a novel idea for catching Mexican cartels (and their U.S. firearms suppliers) in illegal gun smuggling. Here's how: let's have the U.S. Government give the gun dealers guns so they can be smuggled.
Lots of guns -- at least count, at least 2,000 of them.
It worked too. Oh, my, how it worked.
The US government-supplied weapons were duly purchased by the bad guys. They were then duly "walked" into Mexico. You'll never guess what happened next.
The Mexican gun cartels used the U.S.-provided guns to kill Mexicans. Lots of Mexicans. The complete death toll is still being tallied.
The Mexican government is beside itself. And ATF has a new acting head.
That's only the beginning. The paper trail for this too-stupid-to-live idea, it's emerging, leads directly into the top level of DOJ - to Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of the Criminal Division, to be precise.
Wait, I'm not done. It gets better.
The trail of e-mails also leads into the White House. and it appears that testimony by Attorney General Holder before the House Judiciary Committee about when he first knew about Operation "Fast and Furious" can reasonably be viewed as being false. In response to a question, Holder said he...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That is if his Republican opponent has the guts to hammer away at it, along with the manufold other issues that can be used against the great usurper, including some that were ignored in 2008.
Correction: manifold not manufold.
I’m wondering who instigated the whole thing? Someone had to say go ahead. Who was it ?
fyi
Interesting logic of the article:
” We don’t want a Special Prosecutor, operating in secret. We want a media firestorm. Let it bleed, I say.”
little barry gave the go ahead of course. Who thought it up? Possibly a group effort by a bunch of pencil necked eggheads fueled by starbucks, bought by soros.
Quite often in high level politics, each side has something really nasty they could spill about the other side, then they decide to call it a wash and keep quiet. Wonder if that will happen this time around.
FYI, LucyT and Joe Brower always get pinged by me for anything about the Second Amendment or firearms that I post, although another ping can’t hurt.
Okay. It’s a habit...sort of automatic.
I agree completely, keep it alive with breaking news, with each new recovered fast-furious gun. There are a couple thousand turds out there that Holder mailed to himself. The White House and Holder will keep piling up the cover up lies. This epic dumb assault on the R2KBA needs to hang around Omar O’Mullah’s neck like a badge of shame.
I just hope no more Americans die for these progressive marxists.
"But, please, sir, shut up about bringing in a Special Prosecutor."
Rep Darell Issa said the same thing today, that a SP will bury this and delay everything until after the election. That's NOT what we want. LET NO CRISIS GO TO WASTE! I think that after the most intelligent dims (I know) think about this, they will talk to Buckwheat, and he will decide to appoint a SP to bury this.
If memory serves....Hillary ran her mouth about “American” or Americans supplying 90% of the weapons used by the Mex. gangs. Fast & Furious was the effort to prove her right. At the time they had both Houses and the administration, thought themselves bullet proof.
Totalitarian bleed-out BUMP!
The liberal MSM has done some digging and come up with a similar program run during the Bush admin.
So the cry now is ..
“Bush did it too, Bush did it too!!”
don’t just let it bleed, keep it open and bleeding.
” At the time they had both Houses and the administration, thought themselves bullet proof.”
if you’ve not noticed,, so far they have been
I think what this Person is trying to say to a Republican,which is Probably a Lost cause,is to Grow a Pair
This was never about catching bad guys in Mexico. This was about proving that all of Mexico's drug violence was caused by guns smuggled in from the USA. As this wasn't true, they had to make it happen themselves.
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