A rising star on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) allegation that the contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder are a voter-suppression tactic “mind-numbingly stupid.”
Freshman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has gotten Twitter buzzing in the Fast and Furious hearings whenever he issues his forthright criticisms and questioning of the scandal.
“My friend Allen West said the race card was the last card in the deck. I think former speaker Pelosi has opened up a new deck and has found the 2 of clubs,” Gowdy said last night on Fox. “I could not believe it when I heard her saying that. Is that all you have to come back with? Is that the best you can come up with, is that we got together in this grand scheme to suppress votes? And I’m sure she didn’t say Southern states, but that’s what she meant.”
“It’s really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous, and the fact that she was once the speaker is mind-numbing! I honestly — and I’ve heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor. I couldn’t believe the words coming out of her mouth,” he continued.
“But keep in mind, Greta, this is the same woman who said that she would have arrested Karl Rove any day she wanted. So I don’t know what was wrong with her yesterday or today or whenever she said that, but I would schedule an appointment with my doctor if she thinks that we are doing this to suppress votes this fall. That is mind-numbingly stupid.”
Gowdy said he saw “no explanation” for the 11th-hour executive privilege asserted over subpoenaed documents other than concealing something that would prove embarrassing for Holder or President Obama.
“If there was nothing in these documents, they would have given them to us. If executive privilege were so sacrosanct, they would have invoked it eight months ago. To wait 10 minutes before we start a markup? They still haven’t told us which documents are privileged,” he said.
“I don’t think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I’m not sure Eric Holder had anything to do with it, which then leads to a conversation about whether he should have known about it,” Gowdy added. “But invoking executive privilege, not turning over documents — if there were nothing in this discovery or production that was damaging, why would they not give it to us?”
“I don’t think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I’m not sure Eric Holder had anything to do with it,
Talk about mind numbingly stupid. An operation that involves 3 separate departments (DOJ, DHS & State) crossing international borders would not take place without Oval office approval. They are protecting the President, nothing less.
Anyone can see that. Or at least anyone outside the beltway.
Let’s be fair: He’s covering his bases so he doesn’t appear too “harsh”. I agree it’s probably a forgone conclusion at this point he had something to do with F&F, but he’s still got to play with the Democrats and acting polite will get him a little more leeway in negotiations.
Add this those facts:
At the exact same time F&F and other gun running schemes were being secretly hatched, Obama’s administration publicly announced several new initiatives:
Obama in Mexico City 2009 – Talks about the supposed torrent of US guns going to Mexico over the unsecured border:
“I haven’t changed my opinion. [The automatic gun ban] would make sense, I continue believing that, … [But] none of us is under the illusion that reinstating the ban would be easy.”
“Are we going to eliminate all guns over the border? That’s not a not realistic objective … What is a realistic objective is to reduce it so significantly – so drastically that it becomes once again a localized criminal problem as opposed to a major structural problem.”
Soon after that, Hilary repeated this new propaganda by echoing the lie that most guns in Mexico were a result of out-of-control gun supplies coming from the US.
And soon after that, also in spring 2009, Napolitano at Homeland Security retailed the lie that the most serious threat to the US security, was not Muslim terrorism, or the millions of Muslims allowed into America and now actively producing “homegrown” Jihadists, but rather, returning Iraq and Afghanistan war vets, heavily armed and trained, and the “rightwing extremists”. About sicpx months after that, a so called “militant right wing extremist cell” was arrested in Michigan and persecuted. Later, all charges were quietly dropped.
Anyone who says this isn’t ALL related isnt paying attention, has rocks for brains, or is a seditious Leftwing extremists bent on destroying the Second Amendment among others…
Anyone else other than Obbie would have been sent home to spend quality time with their families. Holder is kept at Justice to stonewall.
Well, he called The Empress of Stupider (a la Rush) mind-numbingly stupid on national TV….he’s got my vote. Rock on, Rep. Gowdy!
Pelosi’s recent statements make me wonder if Botox kills brain cells.
There’s your VP pick right there, Mitt. Either that or Attorney General.
They both knew the moment they entered the White House. They state that this program was started by the Bush Administration under a different name. They then expanded the program into Fast and Furious. The only reason they stopped, Brian Terry was killed.
Why would we want to suppress the vote? Since “da Ones” election we have taken over Ted Kennedy’s seat in the Senate, elected a GOP NJ Gov., defended a recall in Wisky, taken over umpteen state houses.
I have lived in SoCal for 40 years. And I have been amazed at how unhinged the politicians from NoCal (Boxer, Pelosi, Brown, Waxman, et al) have become in recent years. But just when I was ready to abandon all hope, this week there was just a small glimmer of possible change: Prop. 29 was defeated.
For those of you that don’t know about Prop. 29, it was a ballot measure for significantly raising state cigarette taxes. It had heavy financial backing from some big west coast libs and Gov. Moonbeam himself. Frankly, it was amazing that it lost. Not to mention the fact that Gov. Moonbeam just suffered another recent major setback when his $100 billion high-speed-train-to-nowhere project essentially lost its funding.
So maybe there’s hope, even in the Peoples’ Republic of California.
Don’t get your hopes up too far. The State Supreme Court will probably overturn it.
Slider, I thought Waxman was “the Congressman from Beverly Hills” that would put him in SoCal. Minor point. I agree with you that you’re fighting an uphill battle against liberals like him and the others you named. Unfortunately, Pelosi will continue to “serve” for as long as she feels like it, thanks to her carefully drawn district boundaries.
She is a textbook example of how someone of average ability gets elected to Congress and then hangs on long enough to end up in a position to affect the entire country.
Everything San Fran Nan says is mind-numbingly stupid, because everything she says is partisan political boilerplate compiled by her staff. Pelosi is the poster child for the Peter Principle in national politics: someone whose Congressional district mentality and personal fortune has kept her in office long enough to progress to and beyond her level of incompetence. She will stay there until she becomes irrelevant and ignored by her peers.