Posted on 09/25/2014 12:39:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
What can be said about Eric Holder’s six years as attorney general that PJ Media hasn’t already said? The news that Holder is going to resign should be bittersweet to anyone who cares about racial equality and the rule of law. The damage he has already done to the country leaves a turbulent wake that is ill-matched to the financial reward awaiting him at a shameless and large Washington, D.C., law firm.
Our country is more polarized and more racially divided because of Eric Holder. He turned the power of the Justice Department into a racially motivated turnout machine for the Democratic Party. That was his job in this administration, and he did it well.
When I first reported on the racially motivated law enforcement of Holder’s Justice Department, it seemed fanciful to some. But after six years of Holder hugging Al Sharpton, stoking racial division in places like Florida and Ferguson, after suing police and fire departments to impose racial hiring requirements, after refusing to enforce election laws that protect white victims or require voter rolls to be cleaned, after launching harassing litigation against peaceful pro-life protesters, after incident after incident of dishonesty and contempt before Congress — after all this, it was clear to anyone with any intellectual honesty that this man had a vision of the law at odds with the nation’s traditions.
Why would it surprise anyone he behaved as he did? As I made clear in my book Injustice, he carried around a quote in his wallet for 40 years about race that, he explained to the Washington Post, indicated that he had common cause with the black criminal. That’s a fact. That’s who he is.
And few in the House knew how to hold him accountable. Some who did are Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), Rep Frank Wolf (R-Va), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Rep. Daryl Issa (R-CA). Unfortunately, too many others failed to understand what they were up against.
Eric Holder was a radical progressive who used the power of the federal government to impose his progressivism on the United States. He loved big interventionist government that took sides based on your politics and your race. He was a menace to the rule of law.
So he exits. But instead of being shamed into obscurity as he ought to be, he will cash in. He’ll abandon the tools of dividing Americans between black and white and worry about a new color: gold. When Holder lands at a big and shameless lawfirm in Washington, D.C., it will say as much about the country in 2014 as Holder’s rancid tenure said about the modern Democratic Party.
That someone like Eric Holder can find a lucrative career in this town, and be feted at all the right cocktail parties, says a great deal about what we have lost as a nation. In another era, a man like Holder, unmoored from the law and the truthm would not have a future. Instead, I suspect Holder has a very bright one.
Those of you clamoring for “indictments” or “prosecution” of the man can give up. It isn’t going to happen. Nothing is going to happen to him, except that he will move on to a job that even most “1 percenters” wouldn’t recognize.
Holder’s tenure represents the beginnings of a post-Constitutional era, where the chief law enforcement officer of the United States serves to dismantle legal traditions. Holder is the first attorney general to whom law seemed to be an option, a suggestion on the way to a progressive future. Most folks, and most lawyers, who didn’t devote daily attention to him might not have noticed the ground shifting during his tenure. But shift it did, and very deliberately.
Law, like liberty, is a tenuous thing. Failing to understand the sources of domestic tranquility, the sources of your relatively good life, usually also means failing to recognize the threats to that pleasant tranquility. Holder used his time at Justice to do things that corrode the rule of law. Law and liberty are precious things, and Holder did enormous damage to both.
Nice to see this ass depart but what’s the replacement?
Holder’s departure is almost trivial so long as his even more corrupt boss remains in our White House. I will be thrilled when an American moves in there again, finally, after these eight terrible years of lawlessness.
Like you think the replacement will be an improvement?
Never mind the posh DC law firm. I’d guess he’s got millions of Pigford kickbacks, etc, socked away in a Swiss bank account, probably in sequential boxes next to Obama’s and Jarrett’s ‘stimulus’ loot.
Sharpton or Jackson. Rev. Wright?
Well said, Mr Adams.
Congress in 2015 needs to tax his family at 200%.
Amen...He’s lawless but he ain’t stupid, he’s got plenty stashed.
The lawless criminal who broke the oath of office when he refused to prosecute lawbreakers of his race and who implemented fast and furious will be just the man 0bama has in mind for the supreme court.
I will not miss Eric ‘Dick’ Holder for one second .
I would almost feel nauseous upon seeing his arrogant appearances before countless hearings of Congress .
Thank God ! for those Republicans in Congress that have always tried to hold him to account ( with varying degrees of success ) If it were up to the damn Dems there would be a bronze statue in the Halls of Congress ,glorifying that deceitful moron . As it is , the R’s in Congress should not let go ; when they command majority in Congress they need to indict this man . Charges ? Where to start ...take your pick !
He may be gone but the effects of the damage done will last a long, long time.
Well, following his indictment, trial, conviction, and sentencing for treason, what could be said is that he experience that "short drop and quick stop."
“Cashing in on lawlessness”. In the spirit of Al Capone! My wish is that Holder meets the same fate as Capone.
Maybe he can swing a gig with john morgan’s firm down in Orlando. Not that he’ll need a gig. How much are we paying him in pension bucks anyway?
Bump
Just pointing that out.
The ironic part was that Holder wasn’t always the hardcore partisan that he is now. At one point, he was a law and order “moderate.” Reagan appointed him to his first judgeship. Clinton appointed him as US attorney and in that position, he nailed Dan Rostenkowski. Something happened since the mid-90s that turned him into a hardcore anti-justice liberal.
Well, guess what. As if we all didn’t know this was what would happen. Rumor out of Syria is Assad has launched another chemical attack. Yeah right. No he didn’t. Rebels did.
We done been had again. Assad didn’t launch any attack. This is planned by Saudis. Now that we are bombing, you see, they can get rid of Assad.
That was the one and only reason to enter Syria. It was never to after ISIS. That is why the weak response to ISIS in Syria.
One thing for sure, this administration always does what we figure they will do.
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