Democrats Rush Holder Confirmation

HumanEvents.com ^ | 1/13/2009 | Connie Hair

[JimSEA]

LOL Why, of course the need to be bipartisan only applies to Republicans and to say otherwise is right wing mean spiritedness.

[Red Badger]

Yes, one way or another. But I’m not optimistic at all...........

[cookcounty]

Arlen the Inspector can be a stubborn man. Time to start ramping up the phoney baloney Obama deception on "transparency."

I knew Holder was corrupt, but I was unaware of the Blago Illinois Gaming deal. Believe me, Illinois Gaming is THE most corrupt part of the State of Illinois. You practically have to be a crook just to play the slots.

[ETL]

Thank you for posting all that. All I ever needed to see to loathe Kerry was the look in my brother's eyes when Kerry was running for President. This decorated 101st Airborne Ranger Vietnam Vet was livid at the thought of a Kerry presidency.

You're welcome. Not a whole lot of people, even here, know these sorts of 'minor' details about these two. Or, for that matter, that the Black Panthers were a *revolutionary communist* organization. They just think of them as being racists. In fact, Reverend Wright's Black Liberation Theology (President-Elect Obama spent more than 20 years in his 'church') is a revolutionary-communist political ideology which Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground also advocated, along with their close allies, the Black Liberation Army. These two groups, working together, launced many bombing attacks and killed several police officers over a 2 decade period.
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

[cookcounty]

Regarding the Illinois Gaming Commission, it might be possible to force documentation release on Holder through the Blago impeachment process. Then again, the GOP is in a minority in Illinois, and many of them are part of the corrupt “Combine” that runs the state.

[ETL]

That’s EXACTLY what I thought, too. YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD DODD....FAWNING ALL OVER HILLARY...WE’RE SO EXCITED TO HAVE YOU HERE....like they would EVER say that to Rice!!!!!!!

Re: Senator Chris Dodd and Obama's pick for CIA chief, Leon Panetta:

"In April 1985 [Leon] Panetta joined with 13 of his leftist congressional colleagues — including Ron Dellums, Don Edwards, George Miller, Christopher Dodd, and Les Aspin — in sponsoring a 20th anniversary fund-raising gala for the pro-Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which had been described by Brian Crozier, director of the London Institute for the Study of Conflict, as the "perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB." The IPS was originally funded with millions of dollars from the Faberge perfume magnate and Communist Party member Samuel Rubin and his wife."

"Readers who recall the movement to impeach Bill Clinton remember that one of the charges raised by Clinton's critics was the conflict of interest created when individuals connected with the Chinese Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO) — such as John Huang, Charles Trie, and James and Mochtar Riady — helped funnel contributions to the Clinton reelection campaign. Afterwards, the Clinton administration lobbied for granting COSCO a 10-year lease on the former Long Beach Naval Shipyard in California. During a March 1997 edition of CNBC's Equal Time program, California Republican State Senator Dick Mountjoy noted that COSCO-linked arms dealer Wang Jun had been granted personal access to President Clinton, and that Wang's business associates had smuggled illegal assault weapons into California for delivery to street gangs by making use of a ship owned and operated by COSCO. Mountjoy then stated:

The next thing you know, (then-Chief of Staff) Leon Panetta is down here negotiating that port for the Chinese.

There is much more to the COSCO-Long Beach connection than we have room for here, but a good summary of the threat the arrangement made to U.S. security may be found in an item inserted into the Congressional Record by Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon on May 20, 1997.

Even the most unbiased of observers may legitimately ask: Why on Earth is an individual who helped negotiate the turnover of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard to the communist Chinese, thereby creating the threat to U.S. national security described in the Washington Times article by Rowan Scarborough and inserted into the Congressional Record by Rep. Solomon, being considered for a top position at one of our nation's most critical intelligence agencies?"

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/655

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: Institute For Policy Studies (IPS)

IPS’s [Institute For Policy Studies] Washington, DC headquarters quickly became a resource center for national reporters and a place for KGB agents from the nearby Soviet embassy to convene and strategize. Cora Weiss headed one of the IPS's most successful forays -- into Riverside Church in Manhattan. She was invited there in 1978 by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin to run the church's Disarmament Program, which sought to consolidate Soviet nuclear superiority in Europe -- in the name of "peace." In 1982 Weiss helped organize the largest pro-disarmament demonstration ever held. Staged in New York City, the rally was attended by a coalition of communist organizations. During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, which became home to the National Council of Churches, Weiss regularly received Russian KGB agents, Sandinista friends, and Cuban intelligence agents. Weiss became infamous for her role in the psychological warfare conducted against U.S. prisoners of war held in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War.

The Liberation News Service, which is a news source for hundreds of "alternative" publications nationwide (with antiwar, Marxist-oriented perspectives), was founded in 1967 with IPS assistance."

[lots more at link...]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991

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This next one is from the Institute For Policy Studies itself...

Obama’s Agenda for Change and the 2009 Summit of the Americas

excerpt:

'Yes We Can' — Change for the Americas Coming from Below

Hemispheric resistance to the first attempt by the U.S. to force the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) on every nation on this continent led to its eventual defeat at the IV Summit of the Americas, held in Argentina in 2005. The organizers of the April 2009 V Summit of the Americas had hoped to focus on a social agenda of providing a decent living for all those who call the “Americas” their home. The emergence of the PPA, or Bush’s Plan B for the FTAA, represents a threat to the urgent need of having all nations in the hemisphere focus on tackling the disparities that make the region the most unequeal in the world.

According to Obama, “what's good for the people of the Americas is good for the United States.” Among the specific proposals Obama has made (political freedom and democracy; freedom from fear and security; freedom from want and opportunity) in the “New Partnership for the Americas” document, he says that “it’s time for a new alliance of the Americas” that leaves behind “eight years of failed policies” and “top down reforms”, and puts forward instead an “agenda that advances democracy, security, and opportunity from the bottom up”. For Obama to make good on his vision for a new "partnership" in the Americas, the divisive Bush PPA initiative must be laid to rest well before the April V Summit of the Americas gets underway.

The 2009 IV Peoples’ Summit in Trinidad and Tobago

On April 17-19, 2009, the IV Peoples Summit will be taking place in Port of Spain, Trinidad (while heads of state are simultaneously meeting at the V Summit of the Americas).The message of a "change agenda" for the hemisphere will be brought to the island nation by social movements coming from all points in between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. A key focus for discussions during the People’s Summit will be the economic meltdown hitting the capitalist system, and the opening that this provides for the implementation of a peoples’ agenda promoting sustainable development, social justice, equity, and peaceful coexistence.[ie, communism/socialism -etl]

In conjunction with the Hemispheric Social Alliance, social movements present in Trinidad and Tobago will be providing a "change agenda" that, in large measure, will likely be echoed by representatives from many of the newly elected governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. The V Summit of the Americas will be an ideal setting for Obama to signal a new respectful and consultative role for the US in the Americas as well. Will Obama avail himself of the opportunity to take this courageous step forward? Ojalá!

http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/933

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The Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy

http://www.panettainstitute.org/index.htm

[cookcounty]

"If the Republicans don’t do EVERYthing in their power to get publicity on that...they are STUPID. LEARN FROM THE DEMS...DO SOMETHING TO SHAME THE PRESS INTO A PRESS CONFERENCE.

Unfortunately, the GOP suffers from severe "McCainization" in which seeking the good opinion of the enemy is the paramount value. That's what we need to change.

[alarm rider]

“Unfortunately, the GOP suffers from severe “McCainization” in which seeking the good opinion of the enemy is the paramount value. That's what we need to change”.

You nailed it!

We must start to understand that democrats, “liberals”, leftists and the like are the enemy.

Enough appeasement.

[ZULU]

“Specter has run into a Leahy roadblock in his attempts to get some of the background documents on the nomination. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has refused to sign off on document requests by Republicans relevant to the hearing from the Department of Justice and the Clinton administration archives at the library in Little Rock.

This is — according to Republican staff sources — enormously frustrating to Specter.”

That is because Specter is an idiot. He should do everything possible to block this miscreant’s appointment as the highest law-enforcement officer in the nation.

If the Republicans are unable to block Holder’s appointment, they should just go home and stay there for the next four years. They will have become totally irrelevant.

[CPT Clay]

Of all of PEBO’s selections this one bothers me most.

[Cicero]

I thought I read a post here last night saying that Arlen has just agreed to confirm Holder. I don’t know if it’s true, but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

[rod1]

In two days Obama is not yet president. How is it they will hold hearing on his presidential appointment if he is not president?

If they want to do that, I have a few appointments they can start with. I am not president in two days either so no problem.

[maggief]

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/09/343974/index.htm

Spare The Rod And Save The Company
(FORTUNE Magazine)
By Geoffrey Colvin
June 9, 2003

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Amid all the front-page hoopla over MCI’s agreement with the feds to settle fraud charges for $500 million—the largest penalty ever sought by the SEC—did you notice anything ... missing?

(snip)

..

http://slw.riskmetrics.com/2003/09/mci_names_5_new_board_members.html

Monday, September 1, 2003

MCI Names 5 New Board Members

..

http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/document.asp?doc_id=39385

MCI Adds Five to Board

ASHBURN, Va. — MCI (WCOEQ, MCWEQ) today appointed five new members to its board of directors, increasing the total number of directors to nine. The new members include: former Touche Ross Chairman W. Grant Gregory, retired Bell Atlantic executive Judith Haberkorn, Patton Boggs Partner Laurence Harris, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, and MatlinPatterson Global Advisers LLC CEO David Matlin.

“The appointment of our newest board members is yet another positive step in the rebuilding of our company,” said MCI Chairman and CEO Michael D. Capellas. “By attracting a broad range of talent on the board as well as the management team, we will continue to chart a new course for MCI, one in which our customers, employees and stakeholders can be proud.”

The new board appointments will become effective on the day MCI formally emerges from Chapter 11 protection. The first order of business for the new board will be to elect a non-executive chairman among its independent directors. Once the non-executive chairman is named, Capellas, who supports the separation between chairman and CEO as an element of good governance, will retain the title of MCI’s chief executive officer. Additionally, the company expects to name as many as three more board members prior to its emergence.

“Michael and the entire management team are focused on restoring the company’s credibility and they are making every effort to build a winning team,” said Irwin Gold of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, financial advisors to MCI’s Unsecured Creditors Committee. “The new board is a clear indication of the value the management team places on depth of experience and commitment to the company’s values of integrity, customer service and innovation.”

The new directors satisfy the requirements of the company’s new corporate governance standards announced this week by Corporate Monitor Richard Breeden. These new board members join Capellas and other previously existing MCI Board members, including former Financial Accounting Standards Board Chairman Dennis Beresford, former U.S. Attorney General and Undersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, and former Equifax Chairman and CEO C.B. “Jack” Rogers.

(snip)

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Eric Holder’s MCI stock options

http://sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar?text=holder+eric&first=1994&last=2008

[ZULU]

Wouldn’t surprise me either. Remember - Bush backed Arlen against a real conservative opponent when he was running for re-election.

There are far too many Arlen Spectors in the Republican Party leadership to justify supporting this pink elephant any longer.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

As we speak, the “Legislature” is voting to give this A.G. more sweeping power than in our history. He will now be able to ban, restrict, or regulate any type of weapon or fire arm at his digression.

And this particular individual was the assistant A.G. under Janet Reno. He is also responsible for the protection and cover-up of Waco, Ruby Ridge, Elian Gonzalez and lied outwardly to the press even with photos to prove otherwise.

This man will do more to ruin the Constitution than any other in our history. And the Press, the Legislature and the coming President (Premier) will let him.

[AmericanVictory]

Let us hope and pray that Specter is in one of his effective prosecutor modes, something that he is capable of being very good at.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Also remember, that at no other time in our history, has there been an “Office of the President Elect” either.

This is nothing more than Obama making the claim that he has already taken control of the Country and the Government. Get used to it.

This coming “administration” will inflict more damage and “change” to this country than it will be able to recover from.

And the GOP will sit quietly by and do little to nothing. Which means that we, as Conservatives will have to accept the fact that a new party needs to be established. The old one has become terminal and will never be great, ever again. Even the name will have to be changed, but America just may be fed up enough to join this new Conservative party before it is all said and done.

[Current Occupant]

Excellent post and damn straight. Where are our talkies on this disastrous nominee? Nowhere to be heard. I posted on the Levin thread last night basically what you posted and asked him for check it out and call for a Levin surge.

I didn’t even get a raised eyebrow. We’re so screwed.

[melancholy]

JOIN THE NRA!

First post I looked at after just joining the NRA! Is it karma or what?

[pierrem15]

Yup. The Senate Republicans are like the Bourbons in France: they forget nothing, but learn nothing.

The real question is why that criminal Leahy is still in the Senate at all.