Posted on 06/19/2012 5:17:25 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
House Republicans are charging head first into their most direct conflict with President Barack Obamas administration over the extent of executive branch power, as they prepare to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress on Wednesday.
Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) failed to reach an agreement on what documents the administration would fork over to help Republicans investigate the Fast and Furious program, a joint Justice Department-Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives operation that put guns into the hands of Mexican cartels.
The two sides remained at loggerheads Tuesday evening, after a 20-minute huddle in Majority Leader Eric Cantors third-floor Capitol suite. Holder later called Issas position political gamesmanship and not a true attempt to resolve the dispute.
After the session, Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said no deal was in hand and Wednesdays vote would move forward, barring a last-minute reversal.
The contempt fight with Holder and the White House is a big moment for House Republicans. With stubbornly high unemployment, a president with weak approval ratings, a redistricting process that has shored up Republican seats from coast to coast and a worse-than-expected economic recovery, GOP officials think theyre poised to keep the House in their control, and many believe they have a shot at taking the Senate and White House.
Issa keeps threatening, Holder keeps saying "piss off".
Grow a set Issa and DO IT!
40 lashes with a wet noodle! And a sternly worded document! I mean it this time1
Well, all the cable networks put up a little graphic on their screens - CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS and Holder, depending on what Congress decides, (this will take a couple or several months) files a criminal complaint against him.
Nothing much.
Then his lawyers come in and scream racism - before you know it, Obama asks for his resignation and gives him a blanket pardon.
The End!
Sam Donaldson will just accuse Issa of being a racist for pushing this vote forward.
Holder will start his defense out with “This is a high-tech lynching of a black man”.
He wiggled all over the place on FOX this evening. Lawyers are SCUM.
That's been my contention all along.
Not only would it be impossible for Maobama not to know about this, it would be impossible for him not to directly aprove it.
The missing link is in the docs.
Why is there not more talk about impeachment? Who controls the House of Representatives these days?
Rover, rover, let Biden take over!!
Wiggle room indeed:
“Issa said he has no hard deadlines but that the committee must receive the documents from Justice before the hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday. That gave Holders side roughly 16 hours to comply.”
Bah.
The best I can guess is that nothing will happen in that there would have to be an investigation, done by the Just Us department. Not much doubt about how long that would take and how it would eventually come out.
Toespi, you may be correct. The problem here is we’re getting closer and closer to another general election.
This will not help Obama and company.
No hard deadlines, but 10 a.m. Wednesday the 20th of June, 2012.
Say what????
;^)
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