Posted on 06/12/2012 1:56:15 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday said there should be an investigation of Attorney General Eric Holder, but stopped short of joining Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) call for his resignation.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) told reporters that many GOP lawmakers share Cornyn’s frustrations with the Justice Department.
“We certainly need to have an investigation of what has happened, and I think John Cornyn speaks for a lot of us as to the frustration we feel about not only the national security leaks, the "Fast and Furious" matter — there's been a whole litany of problems coming out of the Justice Department,” McConnell said.
“I'm listening carefully to what my colleagues are saying. I think we're all unhappy with the performance of the attorney general,” he said.
Cornyn, a member of the Judiciary Committee and chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, called for Holder to step down at a Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning where the attorney general testified before lawmakers.
“You’ve violated the public trust in my view and by failing and refusing to perform the duties of your office,” Cornyn told Holder.
“Mr. Attorney General, it is more with sorrow than anger that I would say that you leave me no alternative but to join those who call upon you to resign your office.”
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Actually...
Not that it’s the intent of these gelding old RINOs, but this tact may pay off. The longer Holder twists in the political wind.. and he will... the more pain that can be applied to 0bama. American voters have the attention span of gnats, so leaving Holder in place for now will have a greater benefit in the long run that off-loading him now and letting him be a faded memory by November.
Holder is one of the most unpopular members of this regime. As such, that unpopularity should be leveraged to our benefit. If he goes, whoever takes his place won’t be any better anyway, so I say leave him in place and throw salt on the festering wound that he is.
He’s more valuable as Exhibit A of the planeload of evidence as to why the Obama cabal is so poisonous for this country.
that off-loading = than off-loading
McConnell and Boehner are part of the problem; they will never be part of the solution.
There will be no fundamental reforms in the Dist. of Corruption as long as they, or their clones, are in charge.
Oh you are probably right
I was just maybe hoping they actually sat down and discussed a strategy
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