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Holder Urges GOP Oversight To Focus On "Substance," Not "Politically Attractive" Things
foxnews.com ^ | December 15, 2010 | Mike Levine

Posted on 01/01/2011 10:52:06 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Holder Urges GOP Oversight To Focus On "Substance," Not "Politically Attractive" Things; Incoming Chairman Vows "Fair" Oversight

As House Republicans weigh how to spend their time after taking power of the oversight committees in January, Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday urged the committee overseeing his department to "focus on things that are not going to be politically attractive but will be of substance."

Before November's mid-term elections, Republicans on Capitol Hill promised to investigate allegations by two attorneys -- one currently with the Justice Department -- that the department's Civil Rights Division is "hostile" toward "race-neutral enforcement" of voting rights laws. But the Justice Department has repeatedly denied such allegations, and congressional hearings on the matter are not a sure thing, with the House Judiciary Committee yet to place such a hearing on its calendar, according to one committee staffer.

"I am committed to fair and reasonable oversight of the Justice Department and to ensuring openness and transparency of our federal law enforcement agencies," incoming committee chairman Lamar Smith, R-Tex., said in a statement.

But, Smith said, the allegations against the Justice Department are "troubling," and, "We need to make sure that our laws are being equally enforced."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
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To: ccmay

Why don’t you just state your thoughts w/o beating around the bush (not Bush!)? May it happen just as you described! :)))


41 posted on 01/01/2011 11:30:55 AM PST by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Is this a rhetorical question?


42 posted on 01/01/2011 11:32:43 AM PST by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Holder doesn’t want to go to jail for the crimes he committed for Obama.


43 posted on 01/01/2011 11:33:04 AM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi)
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To: Doc Savage

Is anyone surprised? I agree, I’m ready for some accountability. Jail for treasonists (is that a word?)


44 posted on 01/01/2011 11:33:40 AM PST by abigail2 (Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Any over-site at all will be a 100% improvement over the poor, poor, poor, poor newt era.
45 posted on 01/01/2011 11:34:50 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: Doc Savage

First it was his attempts in prosecuting CIA and other intelligence officials for defending this country per the law. That FOOLISHNESS crashed and burned.

He has treated non-citizen murderous enemies of the United States: AKA terrorists; as if they have the same rights as Americans.

He is working against our interests, in a government function - isn’t this ... treason?


46 posted on 01/01/2011 11:35:18 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: reagandemocrat

what has gone around is coming around


47 posted on 01/01/2011 11:41:51 AM PST by stickywillie
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To: TexasCajun

Yes, for a very, very long time...


48 posted on 01/01/2011 11:44:20 AM PST by Shady (LIBERTY is NOT a Four Letter Word.)
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To: ccmay

I’d give my opinion, but these Thugs will come after Us in Our Homes! This is the kinda stuff that happens in Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, and Haiti!!


49 posted on 01/01/2011 11:44:30 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: abigail2

“Traitors”?


50 posted on 01/01/2011 11:45:51 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Does our "widdle Ewwic" have a sense of foreboding?

You have the "wight" to "wemain silent"...

51 posted on 01/01/2011 11:49:31 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Eric can be the "tiny little dancer" in the bubba sandwich in cell block "D".

Enjoy, Eric.

52 posted on 01/01/2011 11:52:08 AM PST by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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To: TexasCajun

AMEN!! to the Infinite Power!

Those two Ugly Thugs at that Philly Polling Place were Ready to KILL!! But Holder obviously agrees with their Agenda and NOT that of Law and Order nor Our CONSTITUTION!


53 posted on 01/01/2011 11:53:53 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: reagandemocrat

Oh yeah...


54 posted on 01/01/2011 11:56:58 AM PST by abigail2 (Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Message to Eric:
Get ready to twist in the wind and be prepared to be thrown under "De" bus.
55 posted on 01/01/2011 11:59:57 AM PST by The Cajun
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

This corrupt-to-the-core scumbag Holder should be treated by the Republicans exactly the way Alberto Gonzales was treated by the Democrats.


56 posted on 01/01/2011 12:00:01 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

If Holder appears before a congressional committee I expect him to invoke George Steven’s defense:”I deny these allegations and I resents the alligator”


57 posted on 01/01/2011 12:02:05 PM PST by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Holder Urges GOP Oversight To Focus On "Substance," Not "Politically Attractive" Things

So Holder is admitting that everything done by the Democrats lacked substance?
58 posted on 01/01/2011 12:05:24 PM PST by aruanan
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To: who knows what evil?; Fantasywriter; samtheman

Lamar Smith of TX 21 will be chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which is Justice’s oversight in the House. Has joined the Tea Party Caucus. A gentleman but a perpetual thorn in the wrong side of any legal issue. Been there a long time but will finally be in charge (he was outranked by others in past years of GOP control). I for one am very much anticipating it. Watch and enjoy!


59 posted on 01/01/2011 12:12:10 PM PST by txrangerette ("...HOLD TO THE TRUTH; SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck -)
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To: Carl LaFong

LOL (no really, I did!) Thanks for the flashback.


60 posted on 01/01/2011 12:14:40 PM PST by BattleFlag
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