Open Thread: Thirty-strong Congressional Call for Holder's Resignation
The tally now comes to 30 members of Congress calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign following Operation Fast and Furious.
The latest congressman to call for Holder's resignation was Rep. Connie Mac (R-FL). Mack, who just last week announced he will be running for Senate, indicates that calling for Holder's resignation is a widely shared and politically popular view.
Do you think Holder will step down soon? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Mack is not the only congressman to recently declare that Holder must resign, with others lining up to share their opinion, including Mack's wife Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA and Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC):
"Congresswoman Bono Mack is deeply concerned about ‘Fast and Furious’ and certainly a resignation is not out of the question,” her spokesman Cort Bush told TheDC earlier this week.
North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones tweeted on Tuesday afternoon,”It’s time for Eric Holder to go!” He joined 28 other members who had called for Holder to resign by Tuesday morning.
Some have reasons for not demanding a resignation just quite yet. As explained at the Daily Caller,
Another member of the committee who hasn’t yet called for Holder’s resignation, Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan, is waiting until after Holder testifies on December 8.
“There are apparent inconsistencies in Attorney General Holder’s testimony before Congress and the facts, and Representative Walberg does not believe Mr. Holder and the Department of Justice has taken the investigation of this matter seriously,” Walberg’s spokeswoman Sarah Kuziomko told TheDC. “Attorney General Holder will be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on December 8 and Representative Walberg hopes he uses that opportunity to explain his misleading statements and clarify who it is that authorized ‘Fast and Furious.’”
The Obama administration has yet to defend Holder's actions, suggesting that President Obama is leaving the door open to push Holder out of office and prevent the scandal from dragging on any longer. No Democrats have yet to publicly call for Holder's resignation.
Do you think the pressure will get to Holder soon and he will resign from his post as Attorney General?
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Holder will resign?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:01am.
Not a chance of a snowball in Hell (can I say that?).
Unlike republicans, dumbocrats ain't afraid of the MSM crawling all over their records, statements, and deeds. Even if they do something (murder, Teddy?) the press won't touch them, and their spouses stand by their man.
At least Republican women have enough pride and self respect to leave their cheating husbands when they get cheated on (note the past SC governor's wife). Can't say the same for ANY democrat women.
Holder ain't one bit afraid of what used to be a co-equal branch of government, the Congress. Obama has them by the sack and He is swinging them any way He wants, and they do nothing. Boner is a joke, and McConnell hasn't been seen or heard from in weeks!
These people (with apparently 30 exceptions) are pitiful.
Holder has to go
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:02am.
....but he won't. Not without much kicking and screaming and gnashing of teeth (I hope this is done by his bud Buh-rock). I'd really like to see him do some jail time for this, and for his lying.
And as far as Connie Mack.....the man is an idiot. Truly. The very worst kind of legacy pol. He couldn't get elected to the House here (Allen West's district) so he moved over to the West Coast (how very nice of his wife to keep her dead hubby's name, a la Mrs. Heinz Kerry....sheesh, don't get me started). Good luck with that Senate race, Connie.
William Lajeunesse did a great segment this morning, quoting some of the ATF staff, they are furious at what is happening at DOJ.
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The only way he steps down is
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:07am.
The only way he steps down is if 0 fires him. No way he does it on his own. Liberals do not cede power willingly. When you have a media complex/firewall that won't even acknowledge Solyndra and considers Geithner's tax problems 0's biggest scandal, don't expect calls for resignation to echo beyond those who have R next to their names.
As long as the WaPo and NYT
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:09am.
As long as the WaPo and NYT along with ABC, NBC, CNN and MSNBC refuse to report on Fast and Furious Holder is not going anywhere. Add in Fienstien's comment that Fast and Furious was the fault of not enough gun control he is safe. Besides it was Bush's fault what with Operation Wide Receiver and all. Holder is supposed to testify before a Senate committee next week, can't recall which one. Does anybody here think that the MSM will cover it or that the committee will get to the truth? Don't hold your breathe waiting on it.
He won't resign until the heat is turned way up
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:22am.
Holder has tried to take the Fast & Furious scandal off the front burner by tasking his department's IG to do the investigation, which we know will continue until well past November 2012.
But if the details of the Fast & Furious debacle uncovered by Issa irrefutably reveal that it was a screw up from Holder on down, Holder will resign before Election Day 2012 to save Obama.
We have a way to go yet, and Holder's department is obstructing Issa's investigation every which way it can.
There has been blood spilled-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:13am.
criminal/civil-someone has to pay.
Holder has a history of hatred of the USA.
this hatred has finally done him in.
Is anyone listening to Obama right now?
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:31am.
Standing in front of the Key Bridge, blathering on about infrastructure.
His brand of stoopid is so stoopid it's making my eyes bleed. Truly.
He just said that congestion there is the worst in the world!!!! Dude's obviously never been through Mexico City, or Manila, or or or. Then he started talking about UPS and FedEx re-routing trucks (don't even get me started)....or the small businessman whose sales went down by 40% when a bridge closed for repairs.
I NEED EMOTES TODAY....a little one that goes *GAHHH!*
I can't believe he's repeating this speech. Rush skewered him for it a while back. It's only become worse in the retelling.
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Gawd said so!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:44pm.
Is this the one that he was saying "God said to do this?"
God wants to see us put people back to work
The narcissist knows no bounds, now he's acting like an intercessory to God. Imagine that from a Muslim!
-Jon
I just read that (well, here
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:08pm.
I just read that (well, here in Hawaii we're a few hours behind the times) and it made me want to puke!!! For some reason, I think it makes a lot of other people want to puke also...............hey Barry, your so-called 'jobs bill' isn't getting any traction from YOUR OWN people, as far as I can tell.............but I guess when you're the Messiah, you've got the inside track to God.
I'm still waiting for 'our people' to throw down the gauntlet on this poser piece of Kenyan Kow Krap..........they've got enough ammo to nuke this commie-ass anti-American anti-Constitution mooooooooooooooooooooooooslem back into the stone age, along with his good buddy Eric Hold-um and the rest of the rat pack..................but for some reason, I'm not holding my breath for any of these gutless wonders on 'our side of the aisle' to do anything.
I'm still waiting for 'our
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:17pm.
I'm still waiting for 'our people' to throw down the gauntlet on this poser piece of Kenyan Kow Krap..........they've got enough ammo to nuke this commie-ass anti-American anti-Constitution mooooooooooooooooooooooooslem back into the stone age, along with his good buddy Eric Hold-um and the rest of the rat pack..................but for some reason, I'm not holding my breath for any of these gutless wonders on 'our side of the aisle' to do anything.
Killa, this is where I wish the Republican Presidental candidates would attack Odumbo and not each other. Just think of the push back from the WH if they had done that and not sniped at each other. It would have pushed an already thin skinned President and his handlers over the edge. Who knows what ammo would have been provided to the candidates from the WH and the responses to the attacks.
Sadly we will never know.
Here's a question I have about Obama running around saying
Submitted by lsudolemite on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 1:12pm.
bridges will collapse, women will be raped by roving packs of bandits, and mass murderers will roam the streets unless the "jobs" bill is passed.
If all this can be prevented with just $400B, then why stop there? Imagine the kind of safety and awesome infrastructure we could have if we spent $4 TRILLION? What about $40T? Obama is going around saying money is no object because the country's infrastructure is held together with one thread that's about to get pulled, so why put any limits on the credit card?
Dunno, LSU
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:54pm.
It's like asking will John Brantley complete a pass this week. Will Boom kill a ref?
You just kind of have to wait and see.
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Sorry J, but thet game was unwatchable in the 2nd half
Submitted by lsudolemite on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:08pm.
Brantley and Murray were doing their best Mr. Magoo impressions out there, so I had to switch back and forth after a while.
Speaking of Mr. Magoo we get the same asinine crew that screwed us on the Peterson INT 2 years ago in Tuscaloosa. Plus ESPN has been slobbering on Nick's backside for 2 weeks now, and none of them are predicting us to win. If we pull it off, it may be the sweetest victory our program's had in 30 years.
Send me a purple shirt
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:19pm.
I'll wear it this weekend.
I saw that about the officiating crew.
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I live and work in the DC metropolitan area, and have . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 4:58pm.
. . . since 1993. I've worked in the District and around it in Maryland and Virginia.
The last thing we need is another bridge into DC.
What we really need is to move much of the existing Federal infrastructure OUT of DC. The concentration of all those Federal government offices in the District is merely a disaster looking for a trigger.
But what would Obama know about traffic in DC? He's chauffered around town were police hold up traffic until his car passes, and if he needs to get to an airport to travel, he takes Marine-1 from the WH lawn to Andrews AFB and steps aboard Air Force One.
I hear that, Galvanic
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 7:55pm.
Which is why I said it was so stoopid (I love Dave's version) that it made my eyes bleed.
He is such a hypocrite. I thought the exact same thing as you wrote. I lived there briefly during the 80's, and know my way around fairly well. I know all about the commute in DC, I was there a couple of years ago visiting a friend (out around Manassas) whose husband rode the rat line into the Pentagon every day.
But there Obama was, in all of his lecturer's glory, expounding on the difficulties of ordinary Americans (as if he knew). It infuriates me to see him blather on as if he has a clue.
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~Three years ago today
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:38am.
I signed up for a Newsbusters account. It was the day before my 28th birthday and two days before the most asinine collective decision this country has ever made.
Only one more year to go, folks.
Happy Birthday Bru!!!!!!
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:19pm.
Happy Birthday Bru!!!!!! aka choselife3x ;-)
Here is to many more here skewering the trolls.
last election...
Submitted by OuttaMyWay on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 4:06pm.
is what prompted my account also :)
A very happy birthday Bru
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 5:26pm.
I thought you had been around here longer than three years, for some reason. Happy NBirthday as well.
Happy Double Birthday, Bru
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 7:57pm.
My real B'Day is my NB BD as well....too funny, my friend.
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Wrathful
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:03pm.
Happy b-day/anniversary Bru!
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Happy B'Day Bru*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:09pm.
NB should be proud. This place would be boring without you.
~Thank you all!
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:29pm.
I haven't been around much lately, but I realized last night that I was about to have my NB anniversary so I had to come by. It's hard to believe it's already been three years.
J, my Le Creuset arrived late this afternoon, and is sitting in state on my countertop. I haven't decided what I'm going to baptize it with, but whatever it is it'll definitely have wine in it. :-D
I'm sure it will be something worthy....
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:34pm.
Perhaps French Onion Soup (see my recipe, LOL).
You are going to love that....my friend takes hers to NC every year (they are on their way back as I type).
Tomatos are ready to up-pot. Tomorrow is another day, Scarlett. Your B'Day!!!!
Have a great one, and how clever of you to learn the secret to life (cook well to get the kitchen properly rigged, hee hee).
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Happy Anniversary, Bru...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:43pm.
As long as there are trolls to be brutally crushed beneath your heels, there will be a place of honor reserved just for you at NewsBusters.
Jer
Happy Birthday, Bru
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 10:18pm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
This administration couldn't care less about the people
Submitted by nonncom on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:02pm.
or their opinions....no way Holder even considers stepping down, and for obummer to fire him would admit a mistake....never happen....I mean, he is "the one"....
some good news
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:05pm.
C-span will be airing the Newt-Cain debate. These two are the nearly perfectly polar opposites in what they bring to the Conservative table in the way of credentials. It should be fun and no media moderator - Rep. King will be there to keep time and issue topics.
Cain / Gingrich DREAM...
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:16pm.
I'm hoping that Gingrich doesn't go all Establishment on Herman and is setting him up to damage him somehow, because my sense of Herman's entrance into this is from a position of good will.
Scozzafava REALLY bothered me that he stood behind her - because it was PARTY FIRST for NEwt in that one, principles be damned. But I'm willing to overlook it, and his general "ick" factor IF HERMAN ADJUDGES HIM TO BE A WORTHY RUNNING MATE.
THAT'S what I am hoping comes out of this debate. Cain / Gingrich, because Cain has EVERYTHING he needs to be a LEADER of DEEP PRINCIPLE, and Gingrich can help him navigate The Hill.
Live Boys / Dead Girls USED TO MATTER
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:12pm.
Remember? Remember the old saying?
"Unless he's caught with a live boy or a dead girl"?
WE'VE JUMPED THE SHARK, GANG.
Feel it?
THAT STANDARD NO LONGER APPLIES.
We've got to get these moral-relativists out of office in one year or we'll NEVER RECOVER.
EVER.
Only 30? That's pretty friggin' pathetic
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:30pm.
Herr Erich von Holderen, much like his boss the Dear Ruler, is a barely literate, corrupt, incompetent affirmative-action product that should never have been confirmed by the Senate in the first place.
Little wonder this country is screwed.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
if
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:33pm.
he does step down or get fired, it will happen during the long Thanksgiving weekend so no one finds out about it. The LSM will be to busy telling viewers how to cook a turkey and his firing will be no news
I would say Christmas because
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:30pm.
I would say Christmas because it is on the weekend. Even less people paying attention then.
If this criminal actually
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:39pm.
If this criminal actually DOES get fired, or relieved, or resigns....................look for two things: some serious accolades from Boy Barry about what a good job he did, and how he has to go because of something other than 'reality'..................and then look for him to show up somewhere else in the REGIME, in some position where he can't be subject to the same kind of authority, but still do the dirty work - kind of like Van Jones - who's still carrying out his, and Obama's, handiwork.
I want Holder to stay, so the
Submitted by jkwtrading on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:54pm.
I want Holder to stay, so the full brunt of him comes out and we can attach all to Obama and take both down. I want every crime, he and Obama exposed so both go on trial. Their exposure would help make all Americans' agree with the verdict once delivered and neither would be damn martyr.
Take that NCAA
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 1:07pm.
Several years ago the North Dakota legislature passed a bill prohibiting the University of ND from changing their mascot from the Fighting Sioux. The NCAA come out and will not allow UND to wear jerseys with the mascot on it in tournament play. It seems the Spirit Lake Sioux Nation is proud of the UND. They have filed suit against the NCAA for the way the NCAA is treating UND. I hope they win big time. I am going to be glad when the schools that are now considered BCS schools tell the NCAA to pound sand and they form a new organization.
Here's something amusing
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:01pm.
Some of the 99%'ers cribs. Taken from their arrest records, and then looked up on Google Earth.
I hope they have good Marias (rude maid name in Latin America), if their personal hygiene is any indication of their housekeeping skills.
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Go home, Mr. Attorney General
Submitted by lesterwink23 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:10pm.
If he didn't know what was going on right under his nose, he's more imcompenent than his boss which is next to impossible. If he did know, he has lied and perjured himself on numerous occasions. Either way, Holder MUST go if we are ever going to have any sort of closure to this monstrous tragedy. He is a disgrace to his office and the grave responsibility that it carries with it.
Wow this guy walks the walk
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:37pm.
Hope this guy can lose the weight. If he does it would be quite inspirational
http://www.fit2fat2fit.com/
New state law
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 8:15pm.
I went voting recently, hoping to prevent one Socialist thief from getting to City Council in my town and trying to evict another...
I was advised that starting in January, in order to vote, you will need to show photo ID here in TX!
Oh the horror!
:o)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Oh the racist
Submitted by lsudolemite on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 8:24pm.
Oh the racist disenfranchisement!!
Can I be prevented from voting??? :o)
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:05pm.
Hey, you never know. I'm part Italian, and since quite a few people here in TX cannot differentiate Hispanics from Italians....
:o)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Screw the Congress, I want to
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:51pm.
Screw the Congress, I want to know how many American Citizens have called for it. Congress is irrelevent, anymore. They are all corrupt or incompetent. Hell, some are blatant with their treachery. Anything they do or say is to get them re-elected, so they can screw US more.
are you kidding?
Submitted by michiganruth on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:04pm.
why would Eric Holder resign? as far as his boss is concerned, he's doing a heckuva job, if I may use that phrase. he has given the Black Panthers a pass as he prosecutes CIA agents, he's filled the DOJ with far-left idealogues, and of course his masterpiece: he could not admit to Congress that "Muslim fundamentalism might have had anything to do with the Underwear Bomber and Times Square Bomber. COULD NOT say it.
in other words: Eric Holder is Barack Obama's perfect attorney general.