Why Holder Quit: The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’

Politico Magazine ^ | September 25, 2014 | Glenn Thrush

[Pearls Before Swine]

worst attorney general in US history.

So far.

[Lazamataz]

"The keenly legacy-conscious Holder has never been in better standing, leaving on arguably the highest personal note of his tenure...."

Really, Thrush? You can actually write something like that and your head didn't explode???

Well, I guess we don't call you nutwingbags "Propagandico" for nothing.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thankfully, God doesn’t see everything as black and white as you do. Falling short and despicable are very different things.

Jim from C-Town equated, by strong implication, Ginsburg's personal/professional despicableness with her eternal destiny. By his stated measure, none of us can avoid hell, because we all fall woefully short of God's standard. God certainly does see sin in black-and-white terms: in His view just one sin disqualifies each and all of us, for He is perfect and holy.

Happily, those who will accept His loving Provision, by repenting of our shortcomings and submitting to Jesus as Savior and Lord, can avoid that fate.

Meanwhile, which was the point of my post, I hope Jim will be careful about judging Ginsburg' heart and final destination (Matthew 7:1-2). It is indeed one thing to despise her politics and tenure on the Court, as I also do wholeheartedly; but it's quite another to send her to hell for that, as though we deserve something better.

[Yaelle]

How the bleep do you draw that with a straight face?

[Yaelle]

This article is ipecac for conservatives.

[Yaelle]

There are only two reasons why anybody leaves in the middle of an administration—either you can’t wait to escape from them, or they can’t wait to get rid of you.

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Bingo.

This writer with his “Holder has chosen the Perfect Time, Holder keen on legacy” crap is actually trying to fellate an entire administration with his words. It just looks nauseating to me.

[Dqban22]

OBAMA WILL FIND ANOTHER SCUM ON THE SAME LEAGUE

ERIC HOLDER'S CAREER: Scandals, activism and race politics

Eric Holder is the fourth-longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history and has attracted more than his share of scandal.

1995 – Holder told the Woman's National Democratic Club that the DOJ would soon launch a public campaign to 'really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way ... in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes.'

January 2001 – As deputy attorney general, Holder interceded with President Clinton and advised him to pardon Marc Rich, a substantial campaign donor and 20-year fugitive, in a tax-evasion and racketeering case. Clinton granted the pardon during his final hours in office.

Eric Holder also pushed and got from Clinton a controversial presidential pardon for 16 members of violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations. Holder, as deputy attorney general, pressed subordinates to drop objections to clemency for a group of terrorists convicted of numerous heinous crimes. Overall, they had been linked by the FBI to more than 130 bombings, several armed robberies, six slayings and hundreds of injuries.

February 2009 – Holder was confirmed as attorney general by a 75-21 margin in the U.S Senate and became America's first black attorney general.

February 2009 – A newly minted AG Holder said during a speech marking Black History Month that the U.S. was 'essentially a nation of cowards' on race-relations. He said in January 2014 that 'I would not take that back.

May 2009 – Holder stunned legal watchers by decided to try a terror-bombing suspect in civilian courts instead of giving him a military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay detention complex. Ahmed Ghailani, indicted for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies which killed 12 Americans and 212 others, became the first Guantanamo prisoner brought to U.S. soil for a trial.

November 2009 – Following an Islamist Army doctor's jihad-related mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, Holder's DOJ classified the casualties as the result of 'workplace violence' instead of opening a terrorism case.

April 2010 – Holder personally OK'ed search warrants demanding the secret collection of emails belonging to Fox News Channel reporter James Rosen. The DOJ wanted to track the source of a national security leak without Rosen being aware he was being surveilled.

May 2011 – Holder testified under oath during a congressional hearing that he hadn't heard about the failed 'gunwalking' program Operation Fast and Furious until one month earlier. A memo later surfaced from 2010 showing that Holder had been briefed on the program, which lost track of nearly 2,000 guns that killed hundreds including an American border patrol agent.

June 2012 – Congress voted to hold Holder in contempt, an unprecedented move, for refusing to turn over the Fast and Furious documents that a Republican-led committee had subpoenaed.

November 2013 – a Texas Republican congressman filed Articles of Impeachment against Holder but only attracted 26 cosponsors for the bill.

March 2014 – Holder declined Republicans' demands to appoint an independent Special Prosecutor to probe allegations that IRS officials politically targeted conservative groups with intrusive investigations. Instead he endorsed the work of a DOJ lawyer who was an Obama campaign donor.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2769620/US-Attorney-General-Eric-Holder-resign.html#ixzz3EMoJFnqp

[sarge83]

And if nominated will be confirmed by a Harry Reid Senate or a (Insert Republican Leader) senate.

[CJ Wolf]

“It was now or never, several current and former administration officials say, and Holder – under pressure to retire from a physician wife worried about a recent health scare, checked the “now” box. “It was a quit-now or never-quit moment,””

they are bugging out because of ebola.

[Cannoneer]

Actually I think the ultra libs are his greatest fear. Ultimately he has failed them and they have a bus ready for him to inspect under.

[9YearLurker]

Nah—they are mostly all ultra-libs, but some press for the faster, more dramatic route, others benefit from that position but themselves go at a more realistic rate.

Good cop, bad cop, but they’re all still on the same team.

[Reddy]

... And that is why we can’t have nice things.

[upchuck]

I have no use for ValJar, but she is not "from" Iran in the sense that she's not Iranian. She was born there to American parents. He father was a doctor and her mother was a teacher. And, yes, she's black.

Source.

[upchuck]

if any gop-e sinator were to vote for holder for scotus an immediate recall vote against that sinator should be held.

Senatorial recalls are not allowed. If recalls were allowed, linda graham would be long gone.