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Congress Finds AG Holder In Contempt
In a day full of political news, here is the latest fixture to the soap opera to keep the electorate happy with water cooler talk.
- HOUSE HAS ENOUGH VOTES FOR HOLDER CITATION; VOTE CONTINUES
- House votes 255-67 to hold AG Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress for withholding documents in the Fast and Furious probe
Now, if only someone, somewhere can tell us the answer to the only question that matters in a world that just happens to have run out of money: who will pay for everything in this increasingly insane world, we would be very grateful. Or is everyone too distracted by meaningless flashing headlines, and ideological agenda to actually care?
From Reuters:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress on Thursday as the Republican-controlled House of Representatives sanctioned the nation's top law enforcement official for withholding some documents related to a failed gun-running probe.
The mostly partisan vote of 255-67 marked the first time a sitting attorney general and presidential Cabinet member was cited for contempt by the full House. No Senate vote is necessary in this House contempt citation.
Many Democrats refused to cast votes, and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi led many of her colleagues in a walkout from the House floor in protest.
Later in the day, the House also was scheduled to vote on a resolution asking U.S. courts to force Holder to turn over documents being sought by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of its long-running investigation of the Fast and Furious. That could lead to a prolonged court fight with an uncertain outcome while a judge weighed the House demand against the Obama administration's claim of executive privilege to protect the documents.
The unprecedented House rebuke of Holder was overshadowed by the U.S. Supreme Court's upholding of Democratic President Barack Obama's controversial healthcare law - a ruling that was reverberating throughout the country.
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Wrong. Wrong. And wrong.
Go back to jacking yourself off in celebration of "free" healthcare.
Off topic but if its true, it can be very serious!!!
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Finally some TA I can believe in.
in spite of the ambiguities, i had to make that courageous call, fuu
it was either that or QE III and i've been trained to be conservative when the supreme quart is featured on activision
what a day for meta-propaganda fuu!
our high court rules that altho not one person involved with making this fuking pure pork kielbasa had the slightest clue what tf they were doing it is a legal sausage b/c it contains a new tax
then the House BiCh-slaps the AG!
now, the europeons don't hafta feel quite so fuking inferior tomorrow and prez0 will have a 1/2-day of cred as he encourages angela to goBig or goto hell and back on the longest day one time for the gipper and humty dumpty too or we'll all be on a bridge too far over the tapioca gorge. together. like sherlock & moriarty; and jan & dean!
a great day for europa, fuu! we won't have another till at least tomorrow if my guess is right from the way the spring in this old chair is poking me in my gluteus angelicus thru my tyler durdens
Certainly feels vaguely Europan around here today. Or maybe not so vaguely.
live on activision: <mittens clutching heart> ... <thud!>
If contempt of congress is a crime then I must be a criminal.
Smith and Wesson in another blowout quarter
So the "Black Caucus" walkout didn't work? Shocked... Can we have a "White Caucaus" too or would that be racist?
Just cause we're evolving into a minority doesn't mean they are going to give us minority rights. There won't be any White Cong. Caucus.
Yes, everyone is too distracted by meaningless flashing headlines, and ideological agendas.
I've had contempt for the AG for a long time.
Congress just caught up.
One more thing to argue about until the shooting starts.
About time congress called a spade a spade. Now what about that false flag Waco I mean Ok City Bombing Holder was invovled in?
Hollder responds:
"Sticks and stones may hurt my bones but names will never harm me."
I bet those documents contain a bunch of disparaging remarks about Mexico and its' government that will cost Barry votes and support.
Just like the "Godfather" scene where they talk about selling drugs and to whom.
Stephens maybe did us a favor,he voted w/ the libs using the definition of a TAX,not a Mandate...................
This stops Obywan from mandating anything he wishes, calling it a TAX, makes it have to go thru Congress.
Maybe sly like a fox?,method to his so called madness?.
In other news: Obama delivers another one finger salute, and not to oil speculators and Wendy Gramm. Mitch McConnell and Boehner rush to the microphones before Mitt RoMONEY, showing the Republicans, Obama, and Wendy Gramm that Republicans have leadership problems that Rush, Rupert, Karl Rove, and the Koch Brothers need to deal with. November is still going to be a referendum on failed Republican economic policy and Eric Holder wll take the contempt citation and $2.50 to buy a Starbucks.
Now let's clear the deck. Find Phil Gramm, shove a teleprompter sidways up his ass, and haul him into Congess. Denounce him. Strip assets. Throw him in prison. Reintstate Glass Steagall.
+1... Nicely said...
-3... Idiot Cue-Ball Phil Gram, "Empty Suit" Holder and Useful Idiot Obama Bin Lyin' all junked you...
Shoot the bastard (in Mexico)
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY !!!
if we can't get these INJUSTICE ministers to carry out the will of the people and bring Bush era warcriminals to justice.....they will join them.
just like the MAFIA .... if we can't get them on murder charges, we'll take them down on tax evasion.
get your affairs in order Bush and Cheny .... then you laiisez faire libertarian Friedmanite-Ayn Randians are NEXT.
"let justice be done though the heavens may fall"
Congress " I want the truth!"
Holder " You cant handle the truth!! bitchez."
So now what? Holder pulls a Corzine, until after the elections?
The Fourth of July now commemorates the liberty we USED to have here in the Land of the USED to be Free.
Even so, we are not nearly as socialist as the poor schmucks in Europe where their governments, in the Treaty of Lisbon, officially rejected capitalism and adopted the "social market economy".
I never met a mexican gang member I didn't want to give a gun to..
makes perfect sense to the average American security idiot
Of course Holder is contemptable. He's in great company, let's look.
I am confident Crispus Attucks didn't die for these characters.
Oh yes, our current POTUS, a bona fide sociopath should have received top billing. Gosh, I'm sorry.
Mr. Holder has contempt for Congress? Hey, I guess he's one of us after all.
this citation is theater of the absurd....nothing will come of it....holder is free to lie and the indonesian is free to murder more people....
When the dems were in charge, if they got just ONE repub vote they claimed it was a BIPARTISAN win! So Holder was held in contempt in a BIPARTISAN vote. KMA!
attention is a finite resource.
keep your eyes on the booty.
To hell with Holder and to Hell with all of them. If they never are to be risen then let them perish now. May hellfire come down upon this government ...NOW!!!
How can Eric "Empty Suit" Holder be in contempt when he hasn't even shown up for his first day on the job yet????
"who will pay for everything in this increasingly insane world"
Tyler, I ask myself that question every day I listen to the news.
Our media and so called "leaders" act as though numbers DON"T matter. What the heck did I get a degree in finance for???????? We are living in BIZARRO WORLD and the majority of people act as though they don't care.
It would be really "COOL" if holder got run over by a school bus full of illigal aliens and his shit-for-brains were scattered all over the pavement! That would be worth drinking too!!!!!!
Cheers... do you know what they call 10,000 lawyers under a school bus? A good start.
wow! This will be the first time I pay a tax for not buying something!
I bet uncle Warren wished he had invested in the insurance business
with little doubt the best comment I have read in my years at ZH apropos to the topic at hand was made above by "iDealMeat"
"Free Jon Corzine"
Caught the video of the "walk-out" today.
What I would give for a chance to bitch-slap Pelosi.
I can't help it - everytime I see her face...the feeling just wells up inside of me.
Signed,
A gal
Can I hope he will be impeached and disbarred?
Where is J Edgar when we need him
Holder will be in chains and an orange jumpsuit alongside Obama, Brenanke, and the rest of the traitors in the very near future when the MASS ARRESTS occur... http://tinyurl.com/cd5cyjo/
Wow, this article really did a good job in ferreting out fema-bound nut jobs. Got to hand it to ZH.
who will pay for everything in this increasingly insane world????
You
Another right wing dog and pony show. How about holding him in contempt for no bankers going to jail. Oh right, Boehner is A OK with that.
Patsy. Coward. Puppet. Incompetent. Just like the all parasites he's taking the fall for.
Apparently Joaquin Guzman Loera has more pull than 'Bag' Holder.
Under the keen eye of CA AG Jerry Brown, the Mexican Mafia set up shop to produce 90% of the meth in the USA out in the CA desert. His reward: hood ornament of CA, going over the cliff. Again.
Don't even imagine whitewash will cover this amount of blood.