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GOP leadership drops the ball on Fast and Furious(gunwalker)
American Thinker ^ | 14 March, 2012 | M Catharine Evans

Posted on 03/15/2012 6:40:25 AM PDT by marktwain

When it comes to gun walking and mass murder, top House Republicans act as if their party lost the midterm elections.

Tea party patriots are justifiably frustrated over House Speaker John Boehner's and young guns Majority Leader Eric Cantor's and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's weak-kneed response to Operation Fast and Furious.

While the Left whips up scandals over a Georgetown law student's inability to locate the nearest Target to purchase a $9 month's supply of birth control pills, Boehner and company prefer the less vocal approach when it comes to slain agents Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata.

Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, appearing on Fox News yesterday called out the GOP leaders for their tepid response to the Fast and Furious scandal.

The Republican leadership were just kind of sitting there, and that's really a pretty accurate story.

Well, here's my question: if you're not going to pick a fight with the president, especially when you've got an issue like this Fast & Furious operation... if you're not going to pick a fight with the president when it's something that's really really important, what are you doing there?"

Alfred Hernandez, a spokesperson for the Bakersfield Tea Party suggested Boehner has Cantor on a "short leash" when it comes to speaking out about Fast and Furious.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; boehner; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; ice; obama
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I do not think that the congress can appoint a special prosecutor.

The old Republican leadership is still dialed into the MSM as the media. They are deathly afraid of offending them, and the MSM is spiking the story.

If the leadership was paying attention to the new media, we would have more action.

1 posted on 03/15/2012 6:40:32 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: MestaMachine

Gunwalker ping.


2 posted on 03/15/2012 6:41:21 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.


3 posted on 03/15/2012 6:41:58 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

I would rather trade these idiots away with their defeat in November, than have them there sabotaging and playing their own selfish games to the detriment of our cause.


4 posted on 03/15/2012 6:45:42 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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Leadership too busy insider trading and getting rich(er) to be bothered about a corrupt Attorney General.

Send the tear jerker home and find someone with balls. Shouldn't be too hard, as Michelle Bachmann is still there.

Boehner=what a phony pansy--feels our pain about like William Jefferson!

vaudine

5 posted on 03/15/2012 6:46:55 AM PDT by vaudine
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Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, appearing on Fox News yesterday called out the GOP leaders for their tepid response to the Fast and Furious scandal.

The Gutless Old Posers are simply worthless. If this isn't worth pressing forth with an investigation, what is? Oh, they'll talk a good game, but in the end... we know their tact... surrender when the pressure comes.

6 posted on 03/15/2012 6:48:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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To: marktwain

GOP Leadership is an oxymoron.


7 posted on 03/15/2012 6:48:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: GourmetDan
The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the moderate wing of the Democrat Party

There. Fixed it.

8 posted on 03/15/2012 6:50:58 AM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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To: marktwain
Dropping the ball implies that the GOP leadership ever intended to hold or run with the ball. The GOP leadership is more like the administrators of Vichy France.
9 posted on 03/15/2012 6:52:04 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: marktwain; Joe Brower; Travis McGee; LucyT; vette6387; MetaThought; 60Gunner; XHogPilot; ...

Didn’t we know this? Ping.


10 posted on 03/15/2012 6:55:01 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: dfwgator
GOP Leadership is an oxymoron.

Also true minus the "oxy".

11 posted on 03/15/2012 6:55:26 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: marktwain

Issa was shut down by boehner when he wanted to charge holder with contempt. You got to ask yourself why. boehner needs to explain himself and WE should start asking him to. Email, call, or fax. Tweet him or jump on his facebook if he even has one. Inquiring minds want to know.


12 posted on 03/15/2012 7:06:30 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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Boner has got to go. He is even weaker than I imagined.


13 posted on 03/15/2012 7:10:09 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: andy58-in-nh

The GOP house and senate leadership should be singing roll me over in the clover because that is what they are, political whores. Yesterday McConville agreed to Weed er Reid’s demands to put the Turd’s judicial nominations up for vote BEFORE he would allow the job’s bill to come to the floor for discussion. That told me too things about that McConville jerk, first of all, he has no convictions. He was holding those nominations hostage because the Turd made appointments without senate approval. So, now all is ok about the recess appointments I guess. Second, the job’s bill should have come first, not second. The point is Weed, er Reid, will bring it up for discussion and then take out all the stuff he does not want, add his own, and shove it up the GOP’s backside as he has done so many times in the past. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fool me the third time, and either I like it or I am into gay political sex I guess.


14 posted on 03/15/2012 7:12:23 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: GourmetDan
The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.

Bingo!

15 posted on 03/15/2012 7:14:57 AM PDT by bgill (Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
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To: GourmetDan
The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.

Like the role the Washington Generals serve for the Harlem Globetrotters.

16 posted on 03/15/2012 7:17:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: ScottinVA

Mexico must be in on it. I can’t understand why they’re not making a huge fuss about it!


17 posted on 03/15/2012 7:21:10 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: marktwain

The GOP leadership are just the court eunuchs for Emperor Obama.


18 posted on 03/15/2012 7:22:22 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: GourmetDan
The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.

Red shirts.

19 posted on 03/15/2012 7:24:05 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Mouton

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: the Republican leadership is composed of masochists; they love being beaten. The rest of us... not so much.


20 posted on 03/15/2012 7:24:55 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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