Face it. Holder isn’t going anywhere, but now he has cover because he’s resigned.
Youll note that Obama has said he’s not naming a replacement until after the election. He didn’t say he was waiting until after the new Senate takes office. I’m sure the plan is for him and Reid to push someone through in the lame-duck session
Oct 17, 2014 - The Hill: "Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is struggling after a spate of recent missteps, and Democrats even privately admit he needs a near-perfect finish to survive.
The Democratic incumbent has trailed Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in most public polling since mid-summer and is now dealing with a pair of recent verbal stumbles.
In Tuesday’s debate he said the middle class extended up to families making $200,000 a year — nearly four times the median household income of the Natural State. Days earlier, he’d struggled to come up with a response when asked about the Obama administration’s handling of Ebola.
The money momentum is also on Cotton’s side. The GOP congressman hauled in $3.9 million from July through September, nearly double the $2.2 million Pryor brought in, and has a warchest nearly three times as large as Pryor’s with $2.9 million in the bank to Pryor’s $1 million.
Pryor, however, invested heavily in field operations and already bought most of his television ad time for the remainder of the campaign, making the cash disparity less of a problem since the two sides will roughly be at parity with their ads. But money tends to follow momentum, and Cotton’s bigger haul is a sign of which candidate the donor class feels has the upper hand.
With just three weeks to go, Pryor has trailed Cotton in all but one nonpartisan public poll dating back to the beginning of September. Democratic polling has the race in a dead heat, but the GOP's internal numbers give Cotton a lead consistently outside the margin of error. President Obama’s unfavorable rating has been in the low 30s in many polls, an albatross around Pryor’s neck.
The verbal stumbles privately have Democrats more worried. “The debates didn't help,” admited one national Democratic strategist.
"I'd say probably up to $200,000, there's different definitions but that's my working definition," Pryor said when asked during Tuesday’s debate what his definition of a middle-class family was.
Cotton jumped on the remark...................."
The actions of his entire tenure if office have been furtive, surreptitious and illicit...Why change NOW?
Susan Rice has probably been promised the job for her ability to lie to the public with a straight face.
Are Obama’s decisions so bad that he can only do things during a lame duck session?
Not that I share the author's characterization of Preet Bharara, but since when has Obama demonstrated any interest whatsoever in appointing anyone possessing even a modicum of integrity to such a position?
Why would anyone with even half a brain believe that anything has changed?
In considering the type of nomination he is likely to make there are the following facts:
1) The day after the election it appears Obama will grant amnesty to illegals through executive action. This will be an unprecedented power grab by the executive branch and will likely result in extensive litigation.
2) If the Republicans take the Senate, Obama will attempt to rule through executive orders and court decrees obtained from the many leftist judges he has appointed. He will need an AG with like mind to assist him.
3) Holder has highly politicized the Justice Department and used it to punish the political enemies of the President. No doubt there is incriminating information in the files plus a number of programs currently underway to further Obama’s agenda. A non-political AG with integrity might put an end to the games.
4) The naming of the nominee is being delayed until after the election. If the new AG were a woman or man of impeccable credentials, and known for non-partisanship, the smart political move would be to announce the nomination now so the press could amplify the praise coming from McCain, Graham, Hatch, Alexander and other “moderate” Republicans.
Given the above, it is hard to envision anyone but a hard core leftist ideologue getting the job. If the GOP captures the Senate on election day, Reid will jam the nomination through the Senate in the lame duck session. The RINO Senators will bleat a little bit for show and go into closed session to determine how they will rearrange the deck chairs when they take command in January.
The second and third in line are bailing too. They have been told they are not candidates for the job. They are getting out while the getting is good.