the committee should leave Mr. Holder alone.
Leave Eric alone!
Posted on 06/28/2012 1:57:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
... 108 Democrats didn’t cast votes ...
There’s some real leadership.
In their latest display of political ineptitude, House Republicans today held the contempt vote for Attorney General Eric Holder over his failure to turn over documents in the Fast and Furious scandal. They could not have picked a worse time to schedule the vote. With the Obamacare decision breaking, the Holder vote – a turning point in the fight against Holder’s stonewalling on Fast and Furious – was absolutely swamped by Obamacare coverage. The planned Congressional Black Caucus walkout on the vote – an idiotic move designed to make the argument that Holder is being targeted due to his race – was completely overshadowed.
A conservative win over the Obama administration became a Thursday document dump, a net public relations loss for Republicans.
Whoever planned this ought to be fired.The American people deserved to be able to watch those proceedings without thinking about the greatest encroachment on personal freedom in our lifetimes. The focus should have been on Obama administration cover-ups. It should have been about Brian Terry.
Instead, we got President Obama triumphing over the Constitution with the help of the Supreme Court at the same time Republicans smacked his Attorney General.
With PR friends like this, conservatives don’t need enemies.
What good will this do?
Yup, time to join the winning side, FR was wrong all along....
Whoop-de-doo. Big deal.
Your right the 17 th did it. This was just another nail.
while 65 Democrats recorded “no” votes and 108 Democrats didn’t cast votes.
So the final results were really 255 yes,,,173 no.
no but 4 votes do.
dred scott
roe v wade
emminent domain
obamacare.
if this doesnt wake up our people nothing will.
the frog is just abt cooked.
i am just abt done fighting. ill take care of me n mine.
these useful idiots will get what they deserve..
we can probably start writing the 2013 headlines now.
massive starvation disease riots and that is just the beginning.
Muslims wont denounce their extremists, let alone will Democrates admit they have a problem. Of course, the RINOs being around and backstabbing does not help either.
They all have to keep the country on its homosexualoid track, or else it’s a roll back to reality that they are too cowardly to even mentaly conceive. They have given up long ago.
Holders punishment should be that he must patrol the border in full ICE uniform for the next few years with one of those bean bag guns they get
Not only did they vote to place him in Contempt of Congress, they voted next to vote him in Civil Contempt of Congress.
The civil charge can be referred to the courts.
Surprisingly, even more Democrats voted for that than voted for the simple Contempt of Congress.
I am not trying to be flippant, but does this mean that Holder (or anyone else) actually has to supply the requested evidence or is it just a nice little procedure?
It’s a “Dog and Pony” Show, nothing will happen to Holder.
As for those who walked out -- including Pelosi -- replace every one of them. What's with these Democrats? They run away and pout if they don't like the way the vote turns out? Cry babies.
We are just waiting for a Cesar or a Mussolini now.
But five do.
The 17th amendment, progressive taxation, and the total abuse of the commerce clause have killed the Republic.
There is no facet of our lives not now controlled by the Federal government.
BINGO! The vote sure looks lopsided against Holder because they did that. Cowards!
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