Posted on 06/23/2012 8:11:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) reminded President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder that Obama isn’t King of the United States of America and can’t ignore the powers of Congress. After 14 months of refusing to give the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee documents relating to the Fast and Furious fiasco, the committee, chaired by Issa, voted to hold Holder in contempt this week.
Chairman Issa didn’t schedule the vote until after President Obama, arrogant as ever and determined to pick a fight with Congress, exerted his executive privilege to block Holder from releasing any additional documents to the committee. If Holder doesn’t have anything to hide, why is Obama shielding the Attorney General from turning over the same 80,000 documents he already gave the Justice Department’s inspector general, who has also been investigating the “gun-walking” mess? Let’s remember this is the same Attorney General who thought it was a good idea to give 9/11 terrorists civilian trials a stone’s throw away from Ground Zero in New York City.
Fast and Furious is proving to be a mess the Obama administration wants to forget fast. (PS-It will be only a matter of minutes before Obama will blame the Republicans in Congress for forcing him to exert his executive privilege in the first place.) From 2009-2010, the Phoenix, Arizona division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) came up with a hair brain scheme to allow Arizona gun shops to illegally sell 2,000 guns to suspected gun smugglers, purchasing the guns for the Mexican drug cartel. Agents believed they would then track the guns back to the drug lords. Instead guns walked away and got lost into the hands of the drug lords and ended up killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and popping up at numerous crime scenes in Mexico and the United States.
This was a dumb plan gone wildly out of control. Making the scheme look even more reprehensible and fishy, CBS News obtained emails revealing AFT agents wanted to use the dangerous plot to build a case to advocate for more gun laws. During nine congressional hearings on the topic, Holder has insisted he knew nothing about the “gun walking” debacle. The question is what is Holder hiding and if documents are good enough for the Justice Department’s inspector general to see, they should be good enough for Congress to see.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) indicated he plans to schedule a contempt vote in the House next week and already Democrats are crying foul. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) decried if Speaker Boehner scheduled a vote on the House floor, he would “be seen as one of the most extreme speakers that ever took charge of the House.”
Quite the opposite is true. After putting his presidential hand into this Fast and Furious Fiasco, Obama seems to be cementing his image as one of the most extreme, divisive presidents in our history. Fish rots from the head down and employees lead by example.
Last week, Obama demonstrated he has no regard for Congress when he announced he would grant 800,000 illegal immigrants amnesty under the age of 30 to remain and work in America.
Though Obama and Democrats held a super majority from 2009-2010 and could pass whatever they wanted, immigration reform wasn’t on the docket of priorities. But since House Republicans refused to pass the Dream Act and Obama finds himself up for re-election, he sent a message to Congress with his “Dream Like” amnesty edict that if it doesn’t bow to his demands, Obama will act like Congress doesn’t exist. That’s exactly what his employee Eric Holder is doing, taking his cues from his Commander-in-Chief and telling Congress to shove it.
As Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) observed: “ He [Holder]wants to turn over only what he wants to turn over and not give us any information about what he’s not turning over. That’s unacceptable. . .Chairman Issa is right to move forward to seek answers about a disastrous government operation.”
Holder looks like he’s playing Robin to Obama’s Batman in Chicago style political thuggery. But our caped crusader the President of the United States doesn’t seem to realize he’s not in Chicago anymore. Obama’s job as president is to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America,” which divides the power of government evenly across three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. If Obama and his team want to stonewall and bypass Congress like it doesn’t matter, he probably needs go to a country like Syria and declare himself dictator.
More like the Ambiguously Gay Duo.
The thing is, Batman is known for NOT killing people.
Cannot say the same thing about O at all.
bill whittle talks obama/holder scumbags...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFIpoL3jrfo&feature=youtu.be
...pretty soon these bastards are going to run out of money. They then will come threatening the Congress with shutting down government if they dont cough up the money...
....you know....SS checks withheld....no more headstart...no more welfare...gramaw dies...medicare shut down....blah blah blah....
If the House goes along with this this time, we are finished because we will know for sure that the House "leadership" is not serious about anything....
...the only peaceful way that Zer0-Holder will be held accountable is by starving their departments to death.
No more "continuing resolutions"...no more money for AF1, golf games....even WH and DOJ lights for crying out loud if need be.
Yeah, we've heard this a million times now. What we haven't heard is how Congress is going to stop it. If they don't, they become as much a domestic enemy as Obama himself.
"Obama’s primary>/u>job as president is to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. . . ." (note added word)
Important conclusion to this article.
“Obama isn’t King of the United States of America”
Are these the actual words of Issa, or the words of the writer of the article?
I would hope they are the actual words of Issa, but knowing the PC of those in congress, there is reason for doubt.
Nope. More like the Joker and Harley Quinn.
Will it be 2012’s Stonewall riot?
More lies....
and Jamie Zapata...?
ICE agent's family files wrongful death claim against Justice Dept.
CBS News ^ | June 20, 2012 4:09 PM | Sharyl Attkisson
Posted on Wed Jun 20 16:31:01 2012 by Southnsoul
CBS News has learned that the family of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata has filed a claim for wrongful death against the Justice Dept. and other federal agencies. Zapata was gunned down by suspected drug cartel members in Mexico in Feb. 2011 with weapons later linked to an ATF case in the Texas area. Joining the claim is Zapata's surviving partner in the attack: Victor Avila.
In an interview last November, Zapata's family told CBS News they feel that U.S. law enforcement could have stopped the sale of a gun used to kill their son. CBS News obtained law enforcement records that show the gun that killed Zapata came from the U.S., and the suspects who allegedly trafficked it had been under law enforcement's watch for months in Dallas but weren't arrested.
In February, CBS News learned a second weapon used in the Zapata attack was also linked to an ongoing case under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
The Justice Department has said ATF "was not aware of" the suspect's purchase of the gun that killed Zapata when it happened, and that answering further questions would jeopardize the investigation.
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