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Holder to GOP critic: 'Have you no shame?' (Impeach Holder!)
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| 12/8/2011
| CNN
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.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; dea; dhs; doj; dojwithoutshame; fandfhearing; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; haveyounoshame; holder; holder4holder; holdervsamerica; holdervsconstitution; obama
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To: tobyhill
McCarthy was 100% right and this pos needs to be tried for sedition.
LLS
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posted on
12/08/2011 5:43:23 PM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
To: tobyhill
The SHAME are the IGNORANT Voters that put Obama the Illegal in the Oval Pffice!! THAT is the SHAME of our once great nation!!
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posted on
12/08/2011 5:44:21 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: tobyhill
How did Issa not laugh his butt off at this poor excuse for a human being?????
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posted on
12/08/2011 5:45:14 PM PST
by
raybbr
(People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
To: tobyhill
Holduh be feelin shame, dawg. He jealus
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posted on
12/08/2011 6:34:50 PM PST
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
To: tobyhill
Weren't McCarthy's suspicions and accusations vindicated by the
VENONA project?
Is Holder trying to taunt Congress?
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posted on
12/08/2011 6:38:19 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: Brilliant
If these guys had been Republicans, they would all be under indictment and the state run media would be leading with the story every broadcast.
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posted on
12/08/2011 6:52:58 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
To: tobyhill
Well if Issa is McCarthy what does that make Holder? A treasonous commie?
Let’s just turn him over to Mexico for prosecution.
To: Obadiah
“Holder ought to slink back under the slimy rock he crawled out from.”
Personally, I’d rather see him frog marched off to prison where he would quickly become someones girlfriend.
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posted on
12/08/2011 8:47:01 PM PST
by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: tobyhill
"As they said in the McCarthy hearings, have you no shame?" asked Holder, referencing a famous retort to McCarthy.
holder may be on target with this remark. Was it the release of the Venona Papers from the archives of the former USSR that proved Sen McCarthy right?
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posted on
12/08/2011 10:52:45 PM PST
by
RobinOfKingston
(The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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