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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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To: marktwain

Kinda sound like the doj has found something about our ‘great” leaders checking into Fast & Furious that the repubs don’t want us to know. HMMMM???? Then these repubs have the gall to come home and tell us what a great job they’re doing!


21 posted on 03/15/2012 7:28:44 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: ScottinVA

“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. “

The frustrating part is thinking about what the dems would do with this if it was Republican president. Pelosi and Reid would be hammering this on a near daily basis. Yet Boehner and McConnell are afraid of their own shadows and won’t press this.

Their timidity and a weak GOP nominee could sink us in November.


22 posted on 03/15/2012 7:41:04 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

“Their timidity and a weak GOP nominee could sink us in November.”

Its a pose. There is one RinoCrat Party in DC....


23 posted on 03/15/2012 7:49:30 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: tillacum

I have a recollection of a story that started to circulate about Boehner and his mistress around the time he became Speaker. It mysteriously evaporated and has not been mentioned again.

I think Boehner and the others have been blackmailed and have made the decision to put their lives above the good of the country.


24 posted on 03/15/2012 8:18:04 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: MestaMachine

Yes, as long as this has dragged on, I figured it would fizzle. All the Obama creeps had to do was stall.


25 posted on 03/15/2012 8:18:16 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: Bluebird Singing
"I think Boehner and the others have been blackmailed and have made the decision to put their lives above the good of the country."

I don't think you can even get into a high-position in government unless you are 'blackmailable'.

Gotta be some way to get da boyz to do the wrong thing all the time...

26 posted on 03/15/2012 8:29:23 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

Probably right.


27 posted on 03/15/2012 8:40:30 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: ScottinVA

They have their little security and fortunes amassed. We do not count according to them.


28 posted on 03/15/2012 9:07:40 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: marktwain
GOP leadership = DNC's R party members.

Face it folks, it aint even a two party system anymore.

Rule of law has been broken. Welcome to rule of beast.

29 posted on 03/15/2012 9:22:55 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Mohammedan law every woman must belong to a man will delay the end of slavery until Islam has ceased)
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To: MestaMachine

Cowards are just traitors with no guts.


30 posted on 03/15/2012 9:30:29 AM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell. Signed, a fanatic)
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The Republican elite are nothing more then democrat LITE, They have sold the American people down the river. There should be tar and feathers for them. Conservatives need strong voices to stop marxist Obama and his ilk.


31 posted on 03/15/2012 10:32:54 AM PDT by Gan Gan
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To: Pining_4_TX

I read on FR about a month ago there was a deal made with the GOP to make this all go away.


32 posted on 03/15/2012 11:55:23 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: MestaMachine

Hey, I told everyone that Issa would get really, really, really mad this time and he did.


33 posted on 03/15/2012 1:42:02 PM PDT by itsahoot (Tag lines are a waste of bandwidth, as are my comments.)
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To: marktwain

They are all sold out to the FedMob. Gangsters.


34 posted on 03/15/2012 2:33:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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. . . . GOP leadership drops the ball on Fast and Furious(gunwalker)

35 posted on 03/15/2012 2:44:09 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: marktwain

This is the Globetrotters against the Shamrocks.(The Republicans are not the Globetrotters.)


36 posted on 03/15/2012 3:00:08 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Liberalism: Carrying adolescent values and behavior into adult life.)
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To: marktwain

I am beginning to think the GOP fears it’s own skeletons being exposed.

I hate to admit that after 09/11 I was firmly on the GOP side. After seeing the wheelings and dealings since then... well, I have become a cynic.


37 posted on 03/15/2012 3:29:10 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: autumnraine
well, I have become a cynicrealist.

There, fixed it.

38 posted on 03/15/2012 3:30:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: LucyT

I didn’t know the GOP had any balls to drop...


39 posted on 03/15/2012 3:50:12 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1149 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: GourmetDan
That is definitely not their only purpose! How can you say such a thing?

They're also there to provide the designated loser to the Demwit candidate in presidential elections.
40 posted on 03/15/2012 4:29:56 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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