Posted on 12/20/2011 4:29:17 PM PST by neverdem
It wasn’t the disastrous Fast and Furious gunrunning operation that armed the Mexican drug cartel and led to the death of a border patrol agent that has led conservatives to call for Eric Holder’s resignation. Nope. Nor was it the fact that Holder’s office inexplicably refuses to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and his decision to sue Arizona over its sensible law to check the legality of people living in the state.
In reality, Eric Holder is under undue scrutiny because he’s a black man. And his boss, Barack Obama, also takes the heat because, he too, is a black man.
So says the Attorney General anyway: “This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” he told the New York Times, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”
Holder labeled these critics the “more extreme segment,” which, as the Times describes them as, consists of Republican officials, conservative bloggers, and media commentators.
The Sunday front-page story was designed to dismiss the growing calls for Eric Holder to step down as mere partisan politics and “Washington gotcha” games; “A Partisan Lightning Rod Is Undeterred,” reads the article’s headline. According to the Times, Holder has no intention of resigning before the 2012 election, but he is currently unsure if he’ll remain attorney general if Obama were to win November.
Holder’s comments drew sharp criticism from Congressman Steve King, who has gone head-to-head with the attorney general in House Judiciary Committee hearings.
“This administration has far more racial marks against it than the people they accuse,” he told HUMAN EVENTS. “They [Holder and Obama] have racial bias within them.”
King noted that it was Eric Holder’s Justice Department that “refused to bring actions against certain parties if the end result would disadvantage a minority group,” a discriminatory policy that was exposed by Christian Adams, a lawyer with the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and author of Injustice.
Or how about the Justice Department’s actions against the town of Kinston, North Carolina? Here we had Holder’s office block an election where voters overwhelmingly decided to abolish political party labels for candidates running in future elections. The reasoning from the Obama administration, as Rep. King recalled, was because without party labels, blacks wouldn’t get elected.
There would be no slot in the voting booth tagged “Democratic,” suggesting that black candidates and voters will always be committed followers of whatever the DNC line of the day is.
“Removing the partisan cue in municipal elections will, in all likelihood, eliminate the single factor that allows black candidates to be elected to office,” said Loretta King, who led the Justice Department’s civil rights division at the time.
And who could forget President Obama interjecting himself in the mistaken arrest of his Harvard Professor Henry Gates, mouthing off to the television cameras that the arresting officer James Crowley acted “stupidly.”
“Obama was pro Gates and against officer Crowley because he perceived it as a race issue,” argued King.
King says that such “racial politics” works successfully by Democrats against a lot of his Republican colleagues because they are, rightfully so, “sensitive to the charges of being called racist.”
And as a result, “Democrats have played race-based politics their entire political careers.”
But if Holder and the Democrats want to find racial politics at play, perhaps they should look to none other than the halls of their own Congress, claims King.
“The Congressional Black Caucus should be called the self-segregated caucus.”
The Iowa congressman says that it is unlikely that Holder will be impeached. King doesn’t want Holder to resign until Congress can get to the bottom of his exact involvement in the deadly Fast and Furious operation.
“Someone at ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms] had to know that those guns were going to kill Mexicans,” added King. “What if the guns were approved to kill African Americans?” King asked rhetorically.
“Was race a factor [at the ATF]? I don’t know.”
Mr. Mattera is the editor-at-large of HUMAN EVENTS and the author of the New York Times bestseller Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation (Simon & Schuster). He also hosts The Jason Mattera Show on News Talk Radio 77WABC. Previously, he was the Spokesman for Young America's Foundation and a TV correspondent for Michelle Malkin. Follow Jason on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
Truman, a Democrat, said "If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen" ~ (TRANSLATE TO CHICAGOESE: Get out the way)
As a black racist, Holder got Americans and Mexicans killed illegally selling illegal guns to Mexican mafia organizations for profit and laundered the money.
There, feel better?
Mr. Holder, which contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination led the Real Clear Politics poll average from 10/20/11 to 11/10/11?
Oh is that why you are what you are? Black? You make decent blacks ashamed.
The blacks will never gain with people like you around, you pathetic loser.
Gee, we think alike.
Dear Attorney General,
It’s time to wakeTFU Eric, it’s not because you are Black, it’s because you lack!
Mainly the character that Americans want in their office holders, backbone!
You gutless piece of obama need to do the manly thing and resign. Maybe Zero will let you walk his dog?
We don’t like you, Mr. Holder, because of the content of your character!
And that is what a racist says.
No longer do most people collapse like a cheap camera when unjustly called a racist. ( Used to listen to Bob Grant in the late 70’s to early 80’s)
Holder is flailing in the bottom of the barrel.
His own moral squalor is to be blamed.
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Allen West: Holder’s race card is the ‘last card in the deck’
Holder’s use of the race card, which has been overdrawn for some time now, only underscores his desparation before the indictments are unsealed.
And we don’t like you, Eric, because you do not like or respect the American people or the Constitution.
Some day the race card will not be valid. But, until that day, it’s working just fine.
IMHO
Holder - you’re a faggot!
Man up, if at all possible.
Ick.
He may wish to reconsider playing the race card. Seems he must hate Mexicans, as he’s willing to facilitate killing lots of them for his own domestic political ends.
Mr. Holder I could care less about your race.
I care about your corruptness, your shallow attitude towards life, your inability to take responsibility for mistakes and your obfuscation.
You, sir, are a POS.
Well, yes, there is that!
Not true, Holder. I don’t like your policies, because I believe a 6 year old could do a better job. I doubt the 6 year old would send guns to Mexico.
So an octaroon is still black? What dilution is required before one is no longer black and can no longer pretend to be a victim with his hands out for others to fill.
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