[driftdiver]

Its unseemly to have an Attorney General who needs to be arrested.

[MichaelCorleone]

**Republicans say it’s not even under consideration, with House Speaker John A. Boehner’s spokesman flatly ruling it out.***

I would expect nothing less from Mr. Boehner.

[mrsmith]

The Dems were all hot to do it to Miers and Bolton:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04tue4.html?_r=1

Over-reaching IMO.

[no dems]

A court case will take time, meaning there’s little immediate effect of the two contempt votes.
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So, nothing changes. What a friggin’ joke our Congress is.

[EagleUSA]

The idea is a joke. The Washington Repubs are so gutless, they have zero courage to do anything serious about Holder’s crimes.

Forget about it.

[bigbob]

If Holder is ever arrested I’ll be on the lookout for skittles falling from the sky...

[no dems]

I wonder if the Republicans in Congress would now have the ‘nads to say: “If General Holder is seen in the Capitol Building, at any given time, he will be arrested.” ???

Nah; they’d never do it. Not with crybaby in the Speaker’s Chair.

[MEGoody]

They’ll never arrest Holder. The Pubbies are spineless.

[chris37]

House Cryer John Boner, two inches of c*ck and no balls.

[BuffaloJack]

Boehner drank the koolaid. He’s now a Beltway RINO.
Do not expect Holder to be arrested, no matter how deserving he is of arrest.

[Tau Food]

They can come and get me, too, because I probably have more contempt for Congress than all AG’s put together.

[Suz in AZ]

I’m sure Sheriff Joe can find room in his tent city complete with pink undies and baloney sandwiches.

[allmendream]

Someone better ask former Speaker Nancy Pelosi how “unseemly” it would be to talk about having the power to arrest Karl Rove ‘any day of the week’.

[jeffc]

If House Repubs are not even considering this, and flatly rule it out, why is the Times writing about it? It's a non-story and frankly seems made up to try to make the Repubs look bad.

Here's the way it works: The Times prints this story and some leftist blogger picks it up and posts a story on how the Times has a story about the possible use of 'inherent contempt' by the Repubs to put Holder in jail. Big Media pick it up and report it as a real story. Now the Repubs, who never even thought of this, look bad (as Big Media will make them look).

Voila! More pressure on the Repubs to be 'lenient'.

[FrankR]

[Poison Pill]

They’re scared to death because the courts have said … the way the contempt power is used is unseemly.

It's an immutable law of the universe that there will always be enough Republicans to act like they are voting on country club bylaws governing the use of olives vs. onions as acceptable Martini garnishes while outside the garden gates Democrats are pulling apart the Republic.

[TADSLOS]

Has Boehner stopped sobbing yet?

[vortigern]

Voting to hold him in contempt and doing nothing else is like stamping your foot because you're angry. Arrest the bastard.

[crosshairs]

Holder’s people in congress will go ape shiite if he’s arrested. They’ll make theatre out of it, big time.

[DannyTN]

They really need to put teeth in this.

Will the civil case have teeth?

To hold Holder in Contempt and then let him continue ignoring congress, will make the Executive branch feel like Congress is inconsequential. That's not good.