The MSM is desperately trying to find a way to cover the contempt vote without alerting the American public that this was all about "Gun Control" (i.e. taking away the firearms of law abiding citizens).
Posted on 06/20/2012 4:04:13 PM PDT by neverdem
NRA Applauds Passage of U.S. House Committee Resolution Recommending that the House Find Attorney General Holder in Contempt of Congress
Fairfax, Va. – The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform passed a resolution recommending that the House find Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. in contempt of Congress by a 23 to 17 vote.Â
"The NRA fully supports this contempt resolution," said Chris W. Cox, executive director of NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. "The American people – including millions of NRA members and tens of millions of NRA supporters – deserve the truth, and we will support any effort that leads us to that truth."
The Committee's report thoroughly details the immediate reasons for the resolution: the Justice Department's open defiance of legitimate demands for documents that are needed for oversight and investigation of one of the most disastrous episodes in the history of federal law enforcement.
Since taking office, Attorney General Holder has seized on the deadly violence in Mexico to promote more gun control. He perpetuated the lie that "90 percent" of firearms used in Mexican crime come from the U.S. and he called for resurrecting the 1994 Clinton gun ban; and to justify the illegal multiple sales reporting scheme, which amounts to gun registration for honest Americans who buy long guns in southwest border states.
There is little doubt that the White House used the Fast and Furious program to advance its gun control agenda. The White House actively sought information from the operation to support its plan to demand reporting of multiple rifle sales by the nearly 9,000 federally licensed firearm dealers in border states.
"The NRA's support of this resolution was not undertaken lightly. Eric Holder and the Justice Department owe it to the American people to produce the truth," concluded Cox.
A letter to Chairman Issa from Chris Cox can be found here: http://nraila.org/media/7733622/cc-letter-to-issa.pdf
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The MSM is desperately trying to find a way to cover the contempt vote without alerting the American public that this was all about "Gun Control" (i.e. taking away the firearms of law abiding citizens).
Thanks neverdem.
NRA weighs in...
The MSM is desperately trying to find a way to cover the contempt vote without alerting the American public that this was all about "Gun Control" (i.e. taking away the firearms of law abiding citizens).
You would have to have an IQ bordering on imbecilic not to see that this scheme was beyond absurd except as a scheme for pushing gun control. There was a 10 - 12 minute segment on Holder's contempt of Congres tonight on PBS' News Hour. If anybody in the southwest and battleground states doesn't know about this ttragic foolery by now, they'll hear it loud and clear prior to Election Day.
Yep, I bet NRA will be holding the feet to the fire of those democraps it endorses and A rates on this issue.....when hell freezes over.
You would have to have an IQ bordering on imbecilic not to see that this scheme was beyond absurd except as a scheme for pushing gun control. There was a 10 - 12 minute segment on Holder’s contempt of Congres tonight on PBS’ News Hour. If anybody in the southwest and battleground states doesn’t know about this ttragic foolery by now, they’ll hear it loud and clear prior to Election Day.
Exactly! On all counts.
"This is an issue of the utmost seriousness and the NRA will consider this vote in our future candidate nominations."
That's from Chris Cox's PDF. It's the next to last sentence. The whole House got courtesy copies.
I guess Quigley can kiss the NRA endorsement good bye then.
Don’t forget that there is more than one agent dead. This was posted today. Zapata family has filed suit against doj.
Thanks for the link.
It was Hubris, plain & simple, from an administration that truly believed that the “elections have consequences & I won” mentality was fundamentally 100% correct and that they could now do anything, legal or illegal, that they wanted to in a mad rush to advance their agenda.
Like they did with the Health care act which is, I suspect, about to get a BIG smackdown.
“Pride goeth before the Fall.”
I'm not from Chicago, but Quigley from Chicago was endorsed by the NRA? I just heard him at Issa's contempt hearing. He sounded just like your typical gun grabber.
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