Obama and Holder: Batman and Robin Stonewalling Congress
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) reminded President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder that Obama isn’t King of the United States of America and can’t ignore the powers of Congress. After 14 months of refusing to give the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee documents relating to the Fast and Furious fiasco, the committee, chaired by Issa, voted to hold Holder in contempt this week.
Chairman Issa didn’t schedule the vote until after President Obama, arrogant as ever and determined to pick a fight with Congress, exerted his executive privilege to block Holder from releasing any additional documents to the committee. If Holder doesn’t have anything to hide, why is Obama shielding the Attorney General from turning over the same 80,000 documents he already gave the Justice Department’s inspector general, who has also been investigating the “gun-walking” mess? Let’s remember this is the same Attorney General who thought it was a good idea to give 9/11 terrorists civilian trials a stone’s throw away from Ground Zero in New York City.
Fast and Furious is proving to be a mess the Obama administration wants to forget fast. (PS-It will be only a matter of minutes before Obama will blame the Republicans in Congress for forcing him to exert his executive privilege in the first place.) From 2009-2010, the Phoenix, Arizona division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) came up with a hair brain scheme to allow Arizona gun shops to illegally sell 2,000 guns to suspected gun smugglers, purchasing the guns for the Mexican drug cartel. Agents believed they would then track the guns back to the drug lords. Instead guns walked away and got lost into the hands of the drug lords and ended up killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and popping up at numerous crime scenes in Mexico and the United States.
This was a dumb plan gone wildly out of control. Making the scheme look even more reprehensible and fishy, CBS News obtained emails revealing AFT agents wanted to use the dangerous plot to build a case to advocate for more gun laws. During nine congressional hearings on the topic, Holder has insisted he knew nothing about the “gun walking” debacle. The question is what is Holder hiding and if documents are good enough for the Justice Department’s inspector general to see, they should be good enough for Congress to see.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) indicated he plans to schedule a contempt vote in the House next week and already Democrats are crying foul. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) decried if Speaker Boehner scheduled a vote on the House floor, he would “be seen as one of the most extreme speakers that ever took charge of the House.”
Quite the opposite is true. After putting his presidential hand into this Fast and Furious Fiasco, Obama seems to be cementing his image as one of the most extreme, divisive presidents in our history. Fish rots from the head down and employees lead by example. Last week, Obama demonstrated he has no regard for Congress when he announced he would grant 800,000 illegal immigrants amnesty under the age of 30 to remain and work in America.
Though Obama and Democrats held a super majority from 2009-2010 and could pass whatever they wanted, immigration reform wasn’t on the docket of priorities. But since House Republicans refused to pass the Dream Act and Obama finds himself up for re-election, he sent a message to Congress with his “Dream Like” amnesty edict that if it doesn’t bow to his demands, Obama will act like Congress doesn’t exist. That’s exactly what his employee Eric Holder is doing, taking his cues from his Commander-in-Chief and telling Congress to shove it.
As Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) observed: “ He [Holder]wants to turn over only what he wants to turn over and not give us any information about what he’s not turning over. That’s unacceptable. . .Chairman Issa is right to move forward to seek answers about a disastrous government operation.”
Holder looks like he’s playing Robin to Obama’s Batman in Chicago style political thuggery. But our caped crusader the President of the United States doesn’t seem to realize he’s not in Chicago anymore. Obama’s job as president is to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America,” which divides the power of government evenly across three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. If Obama and his team want to stonewall and bypass Congress like it doesn’t matter, he probably needs go to a country like Syria and declare himself dictator.
Let me guess Ms. Wright, you only date white men. Oh, and you hate yourself.
Why can’t you just be a conservative chick? Nope, you must be a conservative black chick.
Mmmm, what about the AG from the previous administration? Fast and Furious was started under the previous administration. Why was the current AG called to the carpet by the Republicans? Let me see!!! You know why in your heart, but you are too busy appeasing others. Plus you blogr get tons of comments. Not!!!!!
Yep, this is my first amendment right!!!!!!!
you are one sick and bitter bitch…
you think romney is a better solution… nuf said…
This dumb plan was institued under the Bush Ad. yet chairman Issa will not call any of them to testify. If he truely wants to get to the root of the problem way not call them.
I JUST FINISHED WATCHING YOU DEBATE MR. MARTIN ON CNN REGARDING THE ISSUE OF “FAST AND FURIOUS”….YOU ARE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY IGNORANT. I HAVE WATCHED YOU ON SEVERAL OCCASSIONS AND ONE THING CAME TO MIND THAT BECAUSE SOMEONE SOUNDS INTELLIGENT DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE INTELLIGENT. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AND IT REALLY IS UNFORTUNATE. EVERY TIME I ENCOUNTER A SISTA OR BRUTHA LIKE YOU WHO ESPOUSE THESE MENDACIOUS AND VACUOUS STATEMENTS I GET MORE MOTIVATED TO WORK FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA SO I COULD SEE THAT LOOK ON YOUR FACE WHEN HE IS RE-ELECTED FOR A SECOND TERM.
Just saw you on CNN. Great job, great website (and url!). FYI, your image (/adam-west-and-burt-ward.jpg) isn’t viewable due to permissions. You need to get that fixed. I can help.
The Mexican Gov. is in a war with drug cartels…guns from America are getting into the hands of criminals… The N.R.A. and the Republicans could care less..Issa’s mission is to throw shade on the Obama Adm… I live in Chicago..illegal guns have made this city like afganistan..when will people wake up about the N. R. A
this blog is fucking garbage.
I’m sorry, this comment has nothing to do with your post.
It is just that I saw you with Don Lemmon at CNN and I can’t believe you say the things you say. You must think you are very interesting for being a black chick against Obama reciting the Republican crappy rhetoric like a paid robot. You seem very frustrated for some reason that you must be hiding, I wonder what the hell is it, but fortunately, I couldn’t care less.
Well, you are not interesting, you are as pathetic as any GOP loser.
Who are you lady? Duh. I counted only 20 blogs on your web-site. I asked myself, Does this woman have a vendetta again black men ? You are a beautiful black woman but somewhere down the line you got really twisted. Some black man hurt you that deeply that you would lose your own innerself to lash out and degrade them. While uplifting white men who look at you as a house negro singing their praises. What Dick Cheney wrote in his book about Colin Powell and Condi Rice are their true perceptions of your kind. They will never give a black man or woman credit for any achievements or accolades even if they are republicans. You play along with your white-washed mentality thinking that you are some how better. Ranting and raving that bull-shit propagenda. I’m an educated black woman raised in the south who has experienced racism and bigotry. Unjustly overlooked for jobs and promotions while you are playing the get rich game adding to the destruction and dummying down of your people. Look in the mirror that black won’t rub off no matter how hard you try. Somethings are just not for sale.
Crystal, keep telling the truth. Hopefully one day it will sink in. I just love the left. Look at the responses to you. Talk about a War on Women. Cowards all. They think there’s something wrong with you because you don’t fall in line with the race baiters. Stay strong.
Keep up the good work. We blacks have suffered enough through the centuries. We don’t need HAND-ME-DOWN doctrines that have failed elsewhere; communist policies.
It’s sad, black people deserved better for a first black President.
Girl… I am an uncomon conservative woman. I am not black… I am white. But I grew up in a very disadvantaged home. At 15 I was on my own, working and living with roommates. I worked 80+ hrs. a week. Just to eat and shelter myself. By all accounts with my background homeless at 15 & a 9th grade education one would expect I would be a progressive liberial. Instead, I learned the vaule of hard work & the dignitiy in providing for yourself. I learned that if you are a trustworthy person of integrity people will try to knock up down… they do not like people that next to themselves show them for the shallow slime they are. But… if you stay the course and convicted to your core values people will take notice and in the long vision you will be respected and rewarded. I understand your political views and totally agree with this article. People do not understand the specific roles of each branch of the gov. & why there are restrictions and checks on the powers of each. To go one further Obama is a chicken #*#* to pull executive privledge in preventing the realse of the doc. in F&F. It is Chicage style thuggery politics…. & in the end what usually is the outcome to chicago thuggery? It won’t last it’s weak and shallow & will be exposed for what it is. CHICKEN #*#*. I see all the negitive comments above mostly personal attacks. Don’t you pay attention you have an excellant understanding of the reality of life and the world. These people are sheep being lead to Uncle Sams Plantation (Star Parker book) for slaughter. That is what Shepards like us are for… help coax them back from danger. Peace….
Your site clearly attracts hateful people who attack you because you have the courage and wisdom to stand for truth and common sense. Besides the personal attacks what struck me were the inaccuracies in the comments. While you expressed humility and openness to adjusting your views based on new factual information in your piece on guns, I doubt your vitriolic detractors even noticed that admirable and difficult to come trait you have. You have my respect and admiration. Keep up the good work and don’t take the foolish comments personally. The hateful comments reveal only that you speak truth that deluded people cannot tolerate. As they speak (write) they reveal what is in their hearts and what motivates them. Because they are blind they will not be corrected. If they were more like you, willing to change your view when getting new information, they and our country would be a lot better off.
Try focusing on the present moment and tell yourself that you will deal with whatever happens, if it ever happens. Remember that problems and anxiety are always stemming from either our past or some potential future we think about. In the present moment, there is no such issue. Focus on the present. Peace is about being present in the moment.