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Breaking: Senator Orrin Hatch demands Eric Holder’s Resignation Over Fast and Furious
A Time For Choosing ^ | June 13, 2012 | Gary P. Jackson

Posted on 06/13/2012 5:52:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

From the Daily Caller:

Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch has joined his congressional colleagues in demanding Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation in the wake of Operation Fast and Furious.

Hatch made the call during a Wednesday interview on former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s radio show. “Well if he doesn’t cooperate with the Congress on this Fast and Furious, where one of our agents was killed because of the stupidity of this administration, then he ought to step own,” Hatch said.

“He’s basically a nice man, but by gosh he’s been so partisan in that job that I’m very concerned about him and tend to support Sen. Cornyn and others who think that he ought to retire.”

Huckabee said he calls Holder by the nickname “Eric withholder” because “he seems to be withholding so much more information than he’s coming forth with.”

Hatch becomes the fourth U.S. senator to demand Holder’s resignation over the scandal. Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn demanded Holder’s resignation to the attorney general’s face during a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Republican Sens. Jim DeMint, Johnny Isakson and James Inhofe did so beforehand.

Two sitting governors — Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Perry of Texas — join those senators, as do 129 House members and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in pushing for Holder to step down.

Say what you will about Senator Hatch, but he is right and pointing out that it was the stupidity of the Obama regime that got all of these hundreds of people killed.


TOPICS: Utah; Campaign News; Issues; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; dea; dhs; doj; ericholder; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; ice; murdergate; obama; orrinhatch; utah
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1 posted on 06/13/2012 5:52:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And why wasn’t Hatch saying this LAST YEAR???


2 posted on 06/13/2012 5:56:47 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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“He’s basically a nice man,

Why is it that Republicans think they need to throw that in, when it's obvious it's not true. If it was true, why demand the resignation?

Obama is an evil, underhanded, pathological liar, and so is everyone around him, including Holder.

3 posted on 06/13/2012 5:57:44 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: FlyVet

Orrin Hatch can’t seem to criticize anyone without issuing a goofy, exculpating qualification. This guy Holder is a demon, every bit as evil as his Punk boss.


4 posted on 06/13/2012 6:03:20 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("You were trying to chisel a perfect truth When the instrument broke in your hand." Al Stewart)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“He’s basically a nice man, but by gosh he’s been so partisan in that job that I’m very concerned about him and tend to support Sen. Cornyn and others who think that he ought to retire.”

weasel words from a weasel.

5 posted on 06/13/2012 6:03:34 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
While Sen Hatch is running for reelection he is a great TEA Party conservative. After the election he reverts to full-on RINO.
6 posted on 06/13/2012 6:05:46 PM PDT by JPG (Don't just talk about it, make it happen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

orrin hatch likes commie usurpers and soetoro X should be given the benefit of the doubt!...
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/12/orrin-hatch-hearts-holder/


7 posted on 06/13/2012 6:07:10 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s a rather large pile of weasel words there....


8 posted on 06/13/2012 6:09:24 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: FlyVet

As C.S. Lewis wrote, “The greatest evil is not done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint...it is conceived and...moved, seconded, carried, and minuted...in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” 


9 posted on 06/13/2012 6:11:38 PM PDT by MNDude ( Victimhood is the Holy Grail of liberalism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
LOL!

Hatch must be senile and looking to be bitch slapped by the domestic communists top lawyer.

Another useless fight without resolution staged by the Washingtonians to create the illusion that they are "doing something" in exchange for their huge pensions and perks.

10 posted on 06/13/2012 6:12:18 PM PDT by Rome2000 (WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
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Are there ANY real men anymore? What's with all this pussyfooting girly sweet talk????

"“He’s basically a nice man, but by gosh he’s been so partisan in that job that I’m very concerned about him and tend to support Sen. Cornyn and others who think that he ought to retire," Hatch said. "

"Nice man" = A-HOLE
"by gosh" = G-DAMNIT
"so partisan" = BIASED & INCOMPETENT
"very concerned" = OUTRAGED!
"tend to support" = AGREE
"others who think" = I THINK
"ought" = MUST
"retire" = RESIGN!!!

11 posted on 06/13/2012 6:13:29 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: NewJerseyJoe

It wasn’t election season.


12 posted on 06/13/2012 6:15:34 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The governors of the states should get into the act by directing all state law enforcement agencies to stop all cooperation with the Fed law enforcement agencies until Eric the Red marxist dog steps down.
13 posted on 06/13/2012 6:21:27 PM PDT by WMarshal (Bitter Clinger)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"We're still working on gun control, but under the radar."

~~Pres. Obama to Sarah Brady.


14 posted on 06/13/2012 6:28:47 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Hatch is saying this now, because he’s seen the high aces that Issa is about to turn over on the table. He’s jumping in with the winning hand, now that he’s seen the cards.


15 posted on 06/13/2012 6:31:36 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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He’s jumping in with the winning hand, now that he’s seen the cards.,

If by "winning hand" it's meant that Holder will be forced to resign, that's not a winning hand.His resignation before the election would be too damaging to the Usurper. And his hubris is overweening. He may resign after Obama is re-elected, if that horror comes to pass.

16 posted on 06/13/2012 6:42:17 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ooooh! I bet you Holder’s real scared!


17 posted on 06/13/2012 6:49:03 PM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hatch voted to approve the Holder weasel when the Holder weasel was nominated by Obama to be the AG.

Thanks Hatch. You’re a bit late to the party.


18 posted on 06/13/2012 6:50:36 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

This is pretty big..it means that it’s about to hit the fan because Hatch is jumping on the bandwagon.

Feinstein would surely have a problem with Tony West as the replacement ... he of Taliban Johnny fame and the brother-in- law of Kamala Harris


19 posted on 06/13/2012 6:57:33 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Holder resigns and F&F goes away. What does Hatch want to remain covered up beyond Holders crime? Answer; The president's involvement in F&F which would cause the entire fraud of this administration to unravel to include the obozo's two Supreme Court justices.
20 posted on 06/13/2012 7:31:13 PM PDT by drypowder
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