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Boehner, Cantor press secretaries balk at calls for Holder’s resignation
The Daily Caller ^ | 1/23/12 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 01/23/2012 11:36:38 AM PST by ColdOne

BALTIMORE, Md. — During a House GOP retreat in Baltimore on Friday, press secretaries for Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor balked when asked if their bosses believe Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation Fast and Furious.

Sixty-three congressmen, two senators, two sitting governors and every major Republican presidential candidate have demanded Holder’s ouster over the resulting scandal. And 89 congressmen have signed a House resolution of “no confidence” in Holder as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Between the two lists, which don’t perfectly overlap, 101 members of the House have “no confidence” in Holder, believe he should resign or both.

Though that number — 101 Congressmen — is nearly half of the 242-member Republican caucus in the House, and the surge continues to grow, the press secretaries for Boehner and Cantor refused to answer the question.

Boehner spokesman Michael Steel has ignored emails on the subject for months, but when TheDC caught up with him at the retreat and again asked if his boss thinks Holder should resign for the gunrunning operation that killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and at least 300 Mexican civilians, Steel replied, “I don’t think he has said anything on that.”

TheDC followed up with Steel in the lobby of the Waterfront Marriott and asked him if he’d just ask Boehner the question. “Yeah, maybe,” Steel replied.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; boehner; dea; dhs; doj; ericcantor; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; obama
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1 posted on 01/23/2012 11:36:42 AM PST by ColdOne
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Boehner, Cantor press secretaries balk at calls for Holder’s resignation

Thus showing their true chicken sh** RINO colors.

2 posted on 01/23/2012 11:42:22 AM PST by calex59
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To: ColdOne

After everything that has come out and the numerous ovesight hearings the GOP leadership in the House and Senate still will not call for the minimum penalty of Holder’s resignation. Pathetic


4 posted on 01/23/2012 11:44:10 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: MestaMachine

ping


5 posted on 01/23/2012 11:44:19 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“oh, you did it to advance your agenda? Well, then, we can understand that.”


6 posted on 01/23/2012 11:45:38 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: ColdOne

Boner should resign.
I knew he was going to be a disaster.
Holder should be frog-marched in handcuffs out of the DOJ building,tried for treason, and shot as a traitor to our USA.


8 posted on 01/23/2012 11:46:34 AM PST by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: calex59

Let me understand this - this is coming from the press secretaries, not from the Congressmen themseles.

I see a couple of employment slots opening very quickly. As for the people that should already have been discharged, there is a whole contingent out there that is perfectly willing to hire the two people “displaced” by these actions.


9 posted on 01/23/2012 11:50:37 AM PST by alloysteel (Are Democrats truly "better angels"? They are lousy stewards for America.)
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To: calex59

“Boehner, Cantor press secretaries balk at calls for Holder’s resignation
Thus showing their true chicken sh** RINO colors.”

This is exactly why we need Newt “LEROY” Gingrich as President. We need a Conservative with a spine in office to neuter these RINO clowns. GO LEROY GO!


10 posted on 01/23/2012 11:53:06 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: ColdOne
Boehner, Cantor press secretaries balk at calls for Holder’s resignation

Holder's resignation?!! Egads, Lovey! How dare those 86'ers rock the yacht of collegiality?

Government of the government, by the government, for the government must be preserved!

Mr. niteowl77

11 posted on 01/23/2012 11:56:35 AM PST by niteowl77 (Mitt Romney: the horse the GOP elite intends to ride into the abyss. Or is it the other way around?)
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To: US Navy Vet

Hey! That’s an insult to vaginal orifices!


12 posted on 01/23/2012 11:58:30 AM PST by liberalh8ter (I don't like what the world has become....)
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To: calex59

Real profiles in courage there.


13 posted on 01/23/2012 11:59:21 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: ColdOne

Two words: Country Club. We the People are not members.


14 posted on 01/23/2012 11:59:52 AM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: calex59
maybe or they want traitor AG Holder to twist in the wind.

15 posted on 01/23/2012 12:09:45 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, $pend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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To: Joe Brower; Travis McGee; LucyT; vette6387; MetaThought; 60Gunner; XHogPilot; FreedomPoster; ...

But they are so busy looking out for our interests....ping.


16 posted on 01/23/2012 12:10:23 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: ColdOne

S0meone has their FBI files, me thinks.

They have become dirty, the destroyers of liberty.


17 posted on 01/23/2012 12:13:33 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: ColdOne

If only they were h0lding out for a frog-march.


18 posted on 01/23/2012 12:15:29 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ColdOne

I think that the longer Holder stays, the more damage he will do to Obama in 2012. If he resigns now or if Obama replaces him, he will be a distant memory by November. Fast and furious is going to be a big issue in the election, and I suspect the republicans want to keep it that way.


19 posted on 01/23/2012 12:17:12 PM PST by Toespi
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To: MestaMachine
Hey, they just don't want to be called racists, can't have that happen yaknow. Holder can be a disingenuous, dishonest thug who hates upholding the law, destroying everything good in his path, but answering to the charge of racism would be just too difficult......
20 posted on 01/23/2012 12:18:26 PM PST by Lakeshark (NbIttoalbl,cRwIdtaa)
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