Holder didn't think this one up on his own - he was prepped and ready. It's got a Clintonian perversity to it that smells a mile away.
Posted on 12/08/2011 3:59:58 PM PST by tobyhill
GOP critics cranked up the political heat Thursday on Attorney General Eric Holder, threatening impeachment and accusing him of withholding information from Congress about Operation Fast and Furious, a severely flawed and discredited federal gun-sting program.
At the end of a long, combative day of testimony before the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee, California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa compared Holder to disgraced Nixon-era Attorney General John Mitchell.
Holder shot back by comparing Issa to Sen. Joe McCarthy, the infamous Wisconsin Republican censured by the Senate in 1954 for leading what critics called a Communist witch hunt.
"As they said in the McCarthy hearings, have you no shame?" asked Holder, referencing a famous retort to McCarthy.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The shame is on those who believe the Obama administration is legitimate and responsible.
Classic Democrat. You get caught red-handed and you accuse others of having no shame. Holder ought to slink back under the slimy rock he crawled out from.
Holder didn't think this one up on his own - he was prepped and ready. It's got a Clintonian perversity to it that smells a mile away.
“”As they said in the McCarthy hearings, have you no shame?” asked Holder, referencing a famous retort to McCarthy.”
Except, or course, that wasn’t the actual line spoken by Welch to McCarthy.
(Rush says it's OK to point this out in public now)
BARF ALERT!
Don’t stop at Holder and the POS pres.....impeach them and the VP and get Boener on the White House....then we can get this country turned around until election day ....
Dear Eric H.
As history has proven, Joe was RIGHT!
Now let me ask you, “Sir, have you no honor?”
Will you not tell the truth?
Make a clean breast of it and you’ll feel a lot
better. Do it now before your continued lies
tangle you in a web you cannot escape from.
tet.
He probably had to look that word up.
except McCarthy was proven mostly correct by the Venona cables
Was he looking in the mirror at himself when he said that?
I don’t think there would bu much practical use of impeaching the president right now. He still owns the Senate where conviction and removal mus take place.
Holder didn't originate this, I suspect. I would bet that it came from a committee of lawyers and media types that wanted just the right phrasing to dress the calculated "red herring".
It is tragically ironic that "shame" (as well as "conscience", "honesty", and "dignity") are not emotions or qualities of which Mister Holder is at all burdened.
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Hey I said months ago they'd use that line: "it will be more like another hearing I watched televised in the 50s.. 'Have you no shame . . .?'"
Memo to Holder:
1. McCarthy was right.
2. Suck it commie bastard.
Regards
Mr. Holder, are you now, or have you ever been running guns to Mexican drug cartels under the aegis of the US federal government?
Have you no shame?
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Joe McCarthy was essentially correct......
"President Truman was fearful that exposures would reflect on key Democrat officials, he said, and big media and the academic world were very leftist, a heritage of the Depression and World War II. High government officials also feared investigations of their past appointments and associations with people who turned out to be communists or sympathizers."wnd
Other evidence said to be in the newly released: The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors [which I have not read]
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