Dems Should Seek Eric Holder’s Resignation
President Obama’s supporters should hope Attorney General Eric Holder resigns. His embarrassing tenure has given Republicans a potent symbol of leftist extremism combined with comic incompetence. This nasty blend is symbolic of the entire administration, as shattered expectations of moderation and competence played a significant role in the midterm tsunami.
Some would certainly like to see the festering mess at the Justice Department continue through 2011. But I know firsthand how the resignation of an attorney general can help rejuvenate both the DOJ and the White House.
I was at the Department of Justice when the bumbling saga of Alberto Gonzales finally ended. Gonzales, attacked by fiercely partisan Democrats over the phony U.S. attorney scandal, meekly accepted the arguments of his foes and surrendered on every point. As Jonah Goldberg wrote at the time:
Gonzales was a piñata for Democrats; bash him from any angle and you got a prize.
Instead of exiting the stage, Gonzales abandoned loyal subordinates to escape personal responsibility for the public relations disaster. One wonders what inept lawyer-strategist was giving him advice. Hopefully that individual is forever far removed from Republican politics. Wild attacking dogs chase whatever flees — only facing the enemy and fighting for your life works inside the Beltway. Bill Clinton knew this well.
It was easy to predict how Alberto Gonzales’ reign would end: once he accepted the complaints of his mortal enemies and sought to placate them, his tenure was sure to unravel, and so it did. As the quisling era of Alberto Gonzales faded into the Michael Mukasey era, the Department of Justice was rejuvenated. General Mukasey implemented a series of steps to put the past in the past. Relief spread across the Department when Gonzales resigned.
Defenders of President Obama should pay attention. No matter how difficult it is for them to toss Eric Holder overboard, the deed must be done. Otherwise, Holder’s incompetence and radicalism will fuel the run-up to the next presidential election. Obama needs the measured integrity of his own Michael Mukasey to help win re-election.
The problems with Holder’s tenure are so numerous it is hard to know where to start.
When Eric Holder visited the Voting Section at DOJ in March 2009, a circus followed, which I have written about here at PJM. The racialist Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King stood in front of Holder and the entire Voting Section and announced how every day she beams with pride “because two black men are running the country.” Had an announcement of this sort been made at a Winn-Dixie staff meeting during the Clinton administration, the very same Loretta King would have been engineering a lawsuit against the grocer.
Did Attorney General Holder reprimand Loretta King for her inappropriate racial comments? Or worse, would he defend her comments? Congress can ask him in oversight hearings, unless wiser Democrats decide it is time for Eric Holder to go before that.
Loretta King is the same incompetent partisan involved in dismissing the slam-dunk voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. King also once told another assembled section in the Civil Rights Division that she was a proud beneficiary of affirmative action. You’d never guess.
King’s blame has diminished over the last few months, however, as records have emerged through a Judicial Watch lawsuit. They prove top level presidential appointees at Justice were driving the New Black Panther dismissal, not career attorneys disagreeing with career attorneys — as we heard under oath. Even so, King — devout defender of the New Black Panther dismissal — couldn’t accept the notion that blacks could be defendants in a civil rights case, and still doesn’t.
Eric Holder could have overruled King and the other presidential appointees. He could have ordered the lawyers to get a stiff remedy against the anti-Semitic New Black Panthers. But he didn’t. Why didn’t he? Did the attorney general agree with the positions being advocated by Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli? Did the White House give instructions? More questions Congress can ask Holder, if he is still around.
If that isn’t enough for reasonable Democrats to throw Holder overboard, consider three words: civilian terrorist trials.
Holder is a national security disaster. His policies make it more likely that Americans will suffer another devastating attack. Holder’s Justice Department has imposed higher evidentiary burdens on itself in terror matters than even the federal courts have required. Holder has also given a central role to State Department nuts like Harold Koh to formulate terror policy deep inside the Justice Department. From reading Miranda rights to battlefield captures in Afghanistan, to short-circuiting the interrogation of the underwear bomber in Detroit, Holder’s policies may be an electoral disaster for Democrats in 2012.
It’s one thing to scale back Bush-era terror policies, but to American voters, it’s quite another to adopt the ideology of the lunatic fringe that Koh represents. Holder has intentionally done the latter.
Congress can ask Holder at his next oversight hearing if Harold Koh will preserve his central role in formulating internal Justice Department national security policy.
Yet another disaster on Holder’s watch was the enforcement of military voting rights in 2010. It became a comedy of incompetence. (PJM has extensively covered the mess, including here and here and here.) Justice bureaucrats responsible for protecting military voting rights failed to enforce the requirement that ballots be mailed out 45 days before the election because they disagreed with the congressional mandate. They believed that 30 days was enough time, and even if it wasn’t, ballots mailed late could simply be tallied after the election. Never mind that Congress explicitly rejected this solution.
The DOJ failed to sue states for weeks or months after non-compliance was discovered. PJM broke news of noncompliance in places the DOJ didn’t even know about. Most outrageous of all, the responsible bureaucrats think the criticism of their incompetence is unfair.
An angry Senator John Cornyn blocked Deputy Attorney General James Cole because of this disaster, and rightfully so.
Congress can ask Holder why no heads have rolled over military voting failures. If nobody is fired by the time Holder next testifies, Congress can seek the names of the officials responsible for the mess and subpoena them to testify. Congress can ask Holder why he didn’t overrule these bureaucrats and order immediate lawsuits when non-compliance was discovered in August, and earlier. Congress can ask why these bureaucrats failed to reply to the Pentagon’s request for assistance to give states guidance to implement the new law. Military voters and their families who lost their right deserve answers.
It will be a nasty experience for the administration if Holder is on the firing line. Wiser Democrats should ensure he isn’t.
Holder is a national security disaster. His policies make it more likely that Americans will suffer another devastating attack.
Mr. Adams, I lurk at lefty forums and if those people reflect the thinking of average D.C. Democrats, your argument will fall on deaf ears. Too many Democrats assert that terrorists are made from American injustice, i.e. arrests without Miranda rights, detention without bail, military tribunals. You know better than I about the “wiser Democrats” who might remove Holder, but I can tell you their constituents want nothing of such wisdom.
I remember first observing Holder as he ranted that no actual defense was needed to justify enhancing penalties for some murders committed against some types of people. “Don’t let anybody tell you that hate crimes aren’t worse than other crimes. They are worse,” he ranted. So much for reason, or explanation, or asking the gov’t to deign to so much as articulate a real justification for that revolutionary unraveling of sixty years of effort to inculcate precisely the opposite value in our judiciary.
Holder’s sole legal light is retributive inequality: showcasing some enhanced penalties for select victimizations he deems politically valuable while thwarting the investigation and prosecution of others, all based on identity politics rather than using the law to advance goals like . . . justice and safety. And with his nearly unique terrorist-defending/pardoning history, he was the worst possible post-9/11 candidate for the job, which is why it is so necessary to ask why Obama chose him in the first place.
Mr. Adams:
It will be a nasty experience for the administration if Holder is on the firing line. Wiser Democrats should ensure he isn’t.
It’s going to be a nasty experience regardless unless Holder is joined on the sidewalk in front of DoJ by Perelli and King, since if they don’t read the memo to get lost it’s a pretty safe wager that they’ll be getting subpoenas to come spill their guts before the committee(s) fairly soon.
One wonders if there will be weekly betting pools in Washington offices next year on how low the Alleged Hawaiian’s approval ratings sink.
Holder definitely needs to go but when, is the question. If he leaves prior to any kind of investigation, what’s to stop Obama from putting someone just as incompetent in his place? This country can’t depend on staying “lucky” to avoid terrorist attacks. The Democrats have shown themselves to be woefully lacking when it comes to being able to govern. We may have used up most of our “nine lives” so some changes need to be made quickly in order to safeguard the population. We are being judged weak in the eyes of the World. Not a good thing.
Mr. Adams,
As always, spot on analysis and straight talk on a subject the alphabet networks continue to ignore, in essence their continuing to carry water for this buffoon and administration(s).
Besides the current actions of AG Holder, what of his past screw ups?
It’s beyond the pale Mr. Holder was even CONSIDERED for AG considering his ultimate *uck up during the Clinton administration at the Justice Department with the Rich and Green affair (call it what you will but that’s precisely how Mr. Holder handled that business). Hell, even President Carter found the Rich, Green ‘disgraceful’!
As well as the FALN terrorists and the Ira Magaziner/health czar dust-up. As for the FALN snafu, if Holder REALLY gave those unrepentant scumbags clemency for Hilary’s Senate run.. where’s the investigation of Holder’s decision in that matter?
Lastly, the Magaziner/health czar TOTAL *uck up decision he’d made resulted in Holder getting a.. promotion to Deputy AG.. ???
The Government is the ONLY employer where selective amnesia is quid pro quo for hiring practices. And the gubmint expects the same ‘obedience’ of their constituents. The arrogance is spectacular..
Holder should be fired. he should then be charged with treasonous acts convicted and sentenced to 20 years and one day at hard labor. dissbarred and upon completion of his sentence he should be deported to iran, obama should be IMPEACHED fined 50 million dollars for abuse of power and given 20 years and one day at hard labor his entire administration needs to do hard time for the dammage they have done to this country,
Adams lists many rational and accurate reasons why Holder must go. He fails to mention, however, the one reason why Holder will not leave the DoJ. Holder knows what Obama is hiding about his past and where the evidence is.
Look at the personal records Obama is hiding, transcripts, medical records, birth certificate, etc. Does Holder know Obama was born in Kenya, that Obama plagiarized key college papers, cheated on exams, is/was a drug addict or is/was impotent? Whatever Obama is hiding, Holder knows what it is. Holder is not going anywhere unless he wants to!
Don’t forget it was Brennan,that organised the ‘break in’ To get Obama’s passport. That’s why he was rewarded with ‘security detail’.I believe the whole lot of them know something is fishy. I hope it comes out.The suspense is killing me.Good idea for a book.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Holder to leave.
First of all, there is no indication whatsoever that this president is willing to actually, you know, like, compromise for real or move towards the center or anything. I expect him to talk kumbaya while doubling down on ideology in real life. Are you going to be blogging on the expected attempts to enact de facto amnesty, cap ‘n tax, and other leftism via executive order and regulation?
And secondly, it’s not only that that proverbial bus he’s been shoving people under for three years now is already a half mile above ground because of all the bodies piled up under it, it’s getting to where there aren’t a lot of competent leftists (I know, oxymoron) out there that aren’t already under the bus to replace him with. Or would want to take the chance to be next under the bus.
Exellent points. Thanks. Perhaps the New Black Panthers will testify on Holder’s behalf. Apparently being black overcomes any issues of incompetence, corruption, or outright stupidity. Obama prooves the point on a daily basis and is pulling the strings for Holder’s decisions.
Holder, King, and Obama et al are the poster chacacters for why Affirmative Action should go on the “ash heap of history”.
Will the Republicans actually have the collective backbone to hold hearings ? Certainly not the passive “old guard”.
I suspect not much will happen to correct the situation until the 2012 election. How to undo the intervening damage ?
If you ask me, Loretta King should be next out the door after Holder.
“Racialist” doesn’t describe Lorretta King accurately. She is a racist, straight up. She thinks she deserves things from white folks because her skin is black and she happily says that.
Becky Wertz is the blathering bureaucrat who is behind the military voting wreck. She should be fired. Maybe people can email members of Congress; “Support Our Troops: Fire Becky Wertz”. Or email Holder himself ocer this outrage.
What do Democrats have to do with Holder?
For that matter, why do the 100 or so remaining Democrats in Congress who aren’t radical marxists or black nationalists remain in the party? And there must be another 40-50 in the Senate, and thousands in State legislatures who have are as aghast at the “transformation” of America idiocy as we are. Are they blind? fools? idiots? so enamored of their power that they would support enemy’s of the country destroying it from within?
Holder is a pimple on the marxist adolescents face. Let him continue to ooze as the ultimately stupid symbol of what Affirmative Action has done and will do to this country.
It is extremely unlikely that Holder will resign or be fired. If past performance is any guide, the Administration will double down instead. We may even see further outrages as calculated “in your face” gestures.
Exactly.
Aside from his radical vision, Obama seems incapable of changing anything about his strategy, including the personnel. Probably because it would be like questioning his own wisdom, which in his mind is infallible.
Van Jones is the only person he has fired, and that situation was so flagrant that his entire administration was probably urging it on. All of the other resignations were rats jumping ship.
Of course, Holder is such an extreme idiot that he could end up being an exception. Like Jones, the entire administration might turn on him at some point. Has there ever been a cabinet official so stupid?
Yes, it would be in the Democrats best interest to try to convince Holder to resign. It would also be out of character.
Democrats typically criticize and “go after” any Republicans who are accused of wrong doing or incompetence. When the accused is another Democrat they tend to circle the wagons or just ignore it.
Perhaps this will be the event that teaches them a lesson… to hold their own to the same level as they would others. Eric Holder, and all the other dirty laundry that’s likely to be uncovered if there is an official investigation could be embarrassing to the point of long term damage and loss of trust.
Why should this adminstration give a damn about the voting rights of our military members. After all, they mostly vote repub. On the other hand, you cant have good dem voters like the Black Panthers being oppressed, by having to answer for criminal behavior, now can we. This is the most politicized Justice Dept I have ever seen, and considering what has gone on at Justice in the past, that is pretty bad. Holder should go.
Obama thinks he is the President of a black nation in a still extant era of Jim Crow. Holder also lives in the past and is an unapologetic racist in my opinion as is Loretta King, his minion of approved good skin color. Kennedy the Catholic never emerged as some feared. Obama wasted no time as the black President as would have been obvious before it happened with a common sense look at his Jim Cone and Rev. Wright inspired church. A defensive Ku Klux Klan is still a Klan and moaning about white baseball leagues less than interesting to 88% of American who live in 2010. Holder should be fired. He has been a disaster from day one with his news conferences berating whites for not wanting to talk about what racists they are. Holder and his ilk do plenty of that for us. Holder is not my Atty. General and Obama is not my President. They are erstwhile M.L. King’s without a cause.
welcome to africa.
neither holder nor obama care one iota about anyone but themselves. two pathological narcissists.
they will not resign (one not being worse then the other). the dems will not ask either to resign. they will not change their course or their methods.
that a free people voted for obama and got holder and a bunch more criminals like him is a very sad testament for democracy and for the rule of law.
the republican party also holds the blame for not confronting these abuses.
keep up the good work Mr. Adams
Would someone please show me the difference between OBAMA and MUGABE.
I mean it,have a sincere look at the two ,twins in history.
there isn’t
Holder should be the ‘starting point’. Many more in the Department were too willing to support him, help him in his agenda, and conceal the corruption.
Just getting rid of him will not solve the problem.
The racialist Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King stood in front of Holder and the entire Voting Section…Loretta King is the same incompetent partisan involved in dismissing the slam-dunk voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.
This moronic woman is likely not considered by her boss as a coward on race, as Eric Holder has accused the American people at large of being.
How many other “proud beneficiaries of affirmative action” are negatively influencing American governance at all levels today ?
State Department nuts like Harold Koh…Congress can ask Holder at his next oversight hearing if Harold Koh will preserve his central role in formulating internal Justice Department national security policy.
There’s another piece of work. Smarter than Eric Holder. Likely even more dangerous as he operates below the radar and is less obvious.
Eric Holder is the only lawyer in the country who can make the average American yearn for the return of Janet Reno.
And speaking of the State Department, let’s not overlook the utterly worthless fool and State Department spokesman, P. J. Crowley. He can say more stupid things in less time than it takes to burp.
Mr. Adams, although I consider myself one of your biggest fans, I’ve gotta disagree; this ain’t the time to get rid of Holder. At this point, he’s a useful pawn. His idiotic leftists knee jerk reactions to every little thing are useful; they make Obama, if it’s possible, look more like a doofus than he already is.
The tweedle-dum boys have functionally turned the United States into the laughingstock of the world. Which isn’t funny. The ramifications are more dangerous than most can imagine. Living in the United States with Obama and Holder at the controls is like spending the next two years walking through a mine field.
Just consider the issue of secrets. What other secrets besides wikileaks have been compromised because Obama obviously puts state secrets so low on his list of priorities? A little thing like the plans for a missile defense system that Obama put on the back burner? It’s even money that either China or Russia has stolen our missile defense plans right under our nose. Imagine, with a much lowered fear of retaliation, either of them, or some other freedom hating country could decide to light up a nation in Europe or the U.S. itself like a Christmas tree.
That all this flowed naturally from idiot Americans electing Obama (along with tons of vote stealing) is obvious. If we can survive the next two years, I think the U.S. will survive in the long run. But, with two American haters at the wheel, it’s not a safe bet.
This country, without a serious change of course, is the Titanic I’m afraid, and firing Holder is simply the equivalent of rearranging a deck chair.
Rachel – don’t forget, I never called for Holder to resign. I just wrote about who SHOULD be doing so.
Wishful thinking….not gonna happen. Holder is there until Obama leaves..it’s like having your own snuggle bunny.
Ah yes…I see you’re counting on republicans to actually display some intestinal fortitude when their turn at bat begins in January. What in the WORLD makes you think they won’t just dive under their desks, “cross the aisle” and bend over for the left as Mitchie the Kid McConnell has taught them to do over his years at the “helm” of the good ship “Sell-Out!”
I have a much better idea than having the Democrats to ask him to resign, and that is for the new Republican Congress to present Articles of Impeachment against him. Also for them to start investigation immediately upon taking control of Congress Jan 3, 2011!
Yea, sorry to say I’ll agree with the disagreers.
After watching this Admin and the Demo’s in general over the past few years shooting themselves in the foot with increasingly larger bore artillery, I’ve given up waiting for them to stop reloading.
If nothing else, we can thank Holder for inadvertently helping those of us who support the Second Amendment. Because of him, there are more legal firearms in the hands of the citenzry than before Obama was elected. Just weeks after Obama’s inarguration, Holder gave the game away. He went on national TV and announced that Obama would re-instate the Assault Weapons Ban before the end of his first term. The result was a wave of panic-buying as every good ol’ boy and his uncle ran out and bought the most high-powered shootin’ irons that they could afford, just in case. Now everybody who wants one has one, and they don’t give a rat’s a** if Obama bans them or not. If you’ve been to a gun shop lately, I’m sure you’ve seen that poster with Obama’s face and the caption: “America’s most successful gun salesman”. Don’t you just love unintended consequences?
Holder’s radicalism and partisan handling of the DOJ is NOT NEW. When he was Deputy Atty Gen during the Clinton Administration, he refused to process a referral of a finding by Fed Judge Lamberth that members of the Clinton WH, including Hillary’s personal assistant Ira Magaziner had committed perjury in a trial in a lawsuit filed by a physicians’ committee demanding access to information on Hillarycare and how it was designed without public scrutiny. (Does this sound familiar?)
When Holder refused to prosecute, the judge took the extraordinary legal procedure to FINE the US Govt $250,000 in an attempt to call the matter to the attention of the public but the MSM largely ignored both the perjury finding and the fine.
They can not get rid of Holder, because he is black and we are still trying to figure out who is the dumbest between Obama, Holder and Pelosi!
Doesn’t matter if he resigns or not. Congress could still call him to testify on what he did during his term as Attorney General whether or not he still holds the office. About the only way the administration can keep him off the stand would be if he pulls a Vince Foster.
I know what could do to get that ole’ Progressive/Communist bell a tollin’. Just send The New Black Panthers out to various locations with clubs a swingin’, to lay out some intimidation and racial insults. Like they do so well in front of voting booths. Now, I know most people think this would be against the law but they are guessing wrong. Why? Eric Holder is just like the NAACP now. He plays the race card, always and he certainly believes that hate crimes laws have no importance to this Administration. How do we know this? Why was no one prosecuted for arson at Sarah Palin’s Wasilla church last year?. And if NBPP were instead the KKK or just southern rednecks, wouldn’t they be in jail now? What else would you expect from Holder, who was personally involved in obtaining the pardons for the Puerto Rican terrorists and engineering the pardon of Marc Rich, who was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List; having been convicted, in absentia, for multiple felonies. Holder committed that particular engineering job while he was working for President Clinton and only after Marc Rich’s wife “contributed” a few million to Clinton’s campaign funds and his “presidential library fund”. So, charges were brought against the New Black Panther Party by the Bush Administration. The New Panthers refused to answer the charges, so they were charged by default. Eric Holder allows the charges to be dismissed. Right? Maybe we could get the NAACP to investigate? Come to think of it, maybe that won’t work. Why? Benjamin Todd Jealous, the president and CEO of the NAACP called Anthony “Van” Jones (an admitted Communist) a “National Treasure.” “He is quite simply one of the few Americans in recent years to have generated powerful new ideas that are creating more jobs here.” While Van Jones may have left the White House under a cloud, the NAACP says that’s not his whole story. The group considers him a pioneering hero for the environment and civil rights — so much so that it awarded him one of its highest honors in Feb. 2010, an NAACP Image Award. The NAACP gives out awards to Communists now. The great Martin Luther King is rolling in his grave.
What else would you expect from Holder, who was personally involved in obtaining the pardons for the Puerto Rican terrorists and engineering the pardon of Marc Rich, who was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List; having been convicted, in absentia, for multiple felonies. Of course, Holder committed that particular engineering job while he was working for President Clinton and only after Marc Rich’s wife “contributed” a few million to Clinton’s campaign funds and his “presidential library fund”. Eric Holder, thy middle name is “HYPOCRITE”!
Mr. Adams, I find your use of the word “comedy” in the case of denial of military voting rights, unfortunate! I for one do not find it, in any manner, funny. Also, I do not believe incompetence was the cause, rather deliberate malice!
I disagree it was deliberate malice. Those of us who have worked in the Voting Section but defend military voting rights have seen firsthand the ineptitude at play. It isn’t deliberate malice. It is the well understood inability to make a decision, the inability to review and move a memo over the course of weeks or months, and the luxury of never having to say your sorry. The attorneys working the cases want to win them, they just get half baked too late guidence from managers. Anyone who has worked there will agree. Most everyone knows precisely where the bottleneck is. The bottleneck doesn’t have deliberate malice; instead, it is a multidecade unfamiliarity with how things move in the real world. The bottleneck isn’t malicious – it’s bureaucratic and stubborn.
Regarding the use of the word comedy – I’ll defer to well established blend of comedy and tragedy in literature. Read the affidavit in the McCain v. Cunningham case. It’s so absurd you can’t help but see Falstaff in the bumbling. The investigative method described in the affidavit is a direct policy of the bottleneck.
Mr. Holder isn’t worried. Today he is in Geneva on the GO USA olympic bid team, visiting the FIFA World Cup headquarters to lobby for the olympics to be in the USA in 2022. It’s as if he doesn’t have another important job to do in this administration!
Eric Holder on the U.S. Olympic Bid Committee
Arriving in Switzerland – December 1, 2010
http://www.gousabid.com/blog/entry/gousabid-update-and-bid-city-leaderboard-december-1-2010/
Eric Holder getting out of the car in Geneva – to meet with FIFA World Cup
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http://www.daylife.com/topic/Eric_Holder
Oh how I LOVE your articles! It is a real breath of fresh air coming from someone that hasn’t been corrupted by Washington. You personally taking on suits against some of the slime eminating from the Justice(?) Department makes us more optimistic that there is hope for the republic. I do have to disagree on your main point. Having Holder around for the next year or so will bring a huge spotlight onto the evil corrupting of the department. Only good can come of that. I hope. Do you think we’ll be arrested for lying to Wal-Mart DHS cameras?
I’m not sure that I want to see Holder resign, or be fired. Right now I know where he’s at. Having him wandering around loose might not be a good thing.
So, Eric Holder AG of United States wants Jms Cole for his deputy attorney general – Cole is a Clinton VET, worked for AIG & DERIVATIVES (see PBS.org on Derivatives) till bankruptcy and “bailout”, he is sponsored by Harry Reid (D-NV, the Dream Act man) and James Cole supports Civilian Courts for TERRORISTS. Now WHY do you all suppose that Obama, Holder, Reid and other democrats want him in Department of Justice (DOJ)? Sure not for his ethics and love of justice Rule of Constitutional Law – it’s for his knowledge on how to escape justice.
Get Eric Holder AG out of DOJ? HOW? He’s not voted in – he’s appointed by President.
A bit off topic but perhaps Mr. Adams can answer this question, Why is the Constitutional requirement of “natural born” for both the VP and POTUS being ignored? By his books and speeches barry soetero aka Obama confirms a Kenyan/British subject father that was never a US citizen.
Why is the CONgress silent? the justices? the military? What say you?
As the above question #39 now goes several days without any response what does silence indicate? Perhaps to soon to speculate anything at all. However, two years into barry’s term and still silence on the eligibility issue. For starters, I believe the following questions should at least be addressed-
1. Why was no vetting done as to his past?
2. Why does he use a Connecticut SS#? (and 30+ others in his lifetime)
3. Why spend over $2 million in legal defense to cover his records?
4. Why did he sign Executive Order #13489 (less than 24 hrs in office)
5. Why are there two different DNC forms confirming his qualifications (HAWAII was the one form having the language stating the requirements for office the other 49 states rec’d the form absent the clause of eligibility)?
I could list more legitimate observations that are unanswered to this day. The biggest concern WHY THE SILENCE from all CONgress?