Gowdy: Obama will fire Holder if Fast and Furious threatens his re-election...

Daily Caller ^ | May 11, 2012 | Matthew Boyle

[upchuck]

South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, one of the most outspoken Congressional critics of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, said Thursday that he thinks President Barack Obama may end up firing Attorney General Eric Holder before the election.

“Oh, I think the thing that drives 99.9 percent of all elected officials is very easy to put your finger on,” Gowdy said in an interview with NRA News’ Ginny Simone. “It starts with a ‘re’ and ends with ‘election.’”

“I think that if he [Obama] believes that the Attorney General has become something of an albatross, and is impacting his ability to carry some swing states, Eric Holder will be in the private practice of law quicker than you say Marc Rich,” Gowdy said.

Rich is the billionaire commodities trader who was under federal indictment for illegally making oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Holder ultimately facilitated President Bill Clinton’s pardon of Rich on Clinton’s last day in office.

Gowdy said that he, Rep. Darrell Issa and others pushing for accountability on Operation Fast and Furious will not stop until they get all the answers.

Gowdy also said he and Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz had privately discussed how they think they would be similarly aggressive with a Republican administration in regards to Fast and Furious. However, Holder has not complied with an Oversight Committee subpoena, and his defenders have criticized Republican efforts to go after the Attorney General.

[ronnie raygun]

Upon exiting 1600 penn ave can you imagine the pardon list

[upchuck]

I can hold my nose and put up with the pardon list. Just as long as he exits.

[trebb]

Hard to see how he could separate himself sufficiently without some key people suffering fatal “accidents”. Way too late in the game to just be noticing something’s wrong, so it will likely not happen. I would bet Holder resigns for “personal” reasons (like wanting to continue sucking air) before he is fired.

[llandres]

Bfl

[gundog]

Agreed. Firing Holder just makes The O look like a shuck and jive colored boy looking to save his own hide. He’d lose anyway.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This gets into the whole sticky wicket of the Arminian vs. Calvinist debates. I try to keep an open mind on that issue as both sides make good points from the bible, and God himself easily has multiple dimensions of causality to work with, not simply the time stream in which we live. (For just one example, our sins falling upon the “past” event of Jesus dying on the cross.) The Pharoah narrative is interesting, since part of the time it is “God hardened Pharoah’s heart” and the rest of the time it is “Pharoah hardened his own heart.” By normal literary standards, the former could well be a way of describing how Pharoah reacted to his knowledge of what the God of the Hebrews was doing in Egypt’s midst.

But anyhow, whether Barack burned his own bridges with God or they were burned for him, this would have been well before he entered politics. A Christian Barack might not even have been involved in politics at all, for all we know.