If we cannot save the Republic now, when will we be stronger?
This is why this guy is in the press profession, and not the political profession.
That would be so racist.
We need to go ahead with contempt charges, but I do question they’re teeth.
Weak-kneed author Jeff Carter... any relation to Jimmy?
Weak-kneed author Jeff Carter... any relation to Jimmy?
Carter misses the most important detail in the entire strategy: the Mexican perspective.
Tens of millions of Mexicans ***and their family members in the USA*** are livid about the US Government supplying the cartels with high powered weaponry that has killed thousands of innocents.
Mexicans knew about this more than a year ago and they cannot believe that Americans seem to ignore it.
Most conservatives think of Mexicans as poor and ready to break laws to get over the border. That is not accurate. Mexico has 120 million people. 70 million are indigent similar to our Native Americans; 25 million are middle class and 25 million are upper middle class to rich.
Although Mexico has problems on many levels there is no denying the fact that 30 million or more can travel legally back and forth on visa to the USA because of their social status.
The tens of millions of Mexican legal residents of the USA are nearly always related to the class of Mexicans that are free to travel back and forth.
The anger and shock of Fast and Furious literally comes over the border to affect millions of legal US citizens who are of Mexican descent.
The result is the typical Mexican-American who can legally vote will be tempted to not vote for Obama or to stay home all together.
That said, the democrats are masters of spin and we can bet they are crafting a spin now in response to a contempt action.
What would that spin be?
It won’t be racism, that won’t fly with Mexican-American voters.
Will it be Bush’s fault? Probably yes. This provides cover to Mexican-American voters to vote Obama.
So Issa and the other republicans better make sure the Stupid Party gets smart about what’s coming. They better be ready to counter the ‘Bush’s Fault’ spin. But of course they won’t because they believe the contempt action will succeed on the merits. This is why they are called the Stupid Party.
What should the Stupid Party do?
They should initiate discussion in the media at every chance they get to talk about Bush’s role in Fast & Furious. They need to get out in front of it and bury that angle of attack.
I don’t have any problem with this move.
Holder is indeed contemptible.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/speaker-boehner-protects-eric-holder-from-contempt-of-congress-citationagain/
“Contempt for Holder, that’s contempt for black men everywhere This is racists!!!”
Just waiting for the race pimps on the left to start spewing non sequiturs and the usual lazy, excuse-laden drivel
Don't even think about it? They'll call you a racist if you say anything?
If you are (were) white and breathing (or not) they call you a racist!
It's all they got -- all they ever had. Only it don't work anymore.
Honest people finally realized that no matter how much you yield they still hate you.
No, in other words...let's not create a martyr.
Obama is doing a good job of hanging himself lately. I'd hate to help create a left-wing martyr right now to save him.
Will the citation help sink him or help him swim? Sometimes stuff does the opposite of what we think. This is something to think about.
That's why the press is pressuring Republicans to not follow through on contempt charges against Holder. The press knows two things:
1. Contempt charges will force the MSM to have to cover the details of the charge, and not just slam Republicans without offering any context.
2. Republicans ALWAYS cave under Democrat/MSM pressure. Even now, Boehner is waffling on supporting the contempt charges.
So, the MSM will apply the pressure, and Republicans will cave, eventually.
-PJ
The author is saying that political expediency is more important than the rule of law ie the Constitution. That political calculations are more important than the lives of two Federal agents and more than 300 Mexican citizens. That the future of the GOP is more important than the lives of future victims, both American and Mexican, of the F&F program. That is kind of a sociopathic way of looking at things.