Shake the Magic 8 Ball…
The chief Democratic House head counter, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, declined to tell reporters how many defections he expected, but acknowledged that some in his party would consider heeding the NRA’s call for a “yes” vote.
One of those Democrats, Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah, said, “Sadly, it seems that it will take holding the attorney general in contempt to communicate that evasiveness is unacceptable. It is a vote I will support.”
He isn’t the only Democrat bailing on Holder.
When House lawmakers vote Thursday on GOP recommendations that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder be held in contempt of Congressfor stonewalling an investigation into a bungled gun-running operation, Georgia Democratic Rep. John Barrow will break partisan rank to censure the president’s choice for the nation’s top law enforcement post.
An unnamed Congressional aide to Barrow confirmed the decision on Wednesday to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s one-man D.C. bureau Daniel Malloy.
So that makes two. More will likely follow, especially from the red state Democrats.
But even the two known yes votes do two things: They make holding Eric Holder in contempt of Congress more bipartisan than ObamaCare, which Barack Obama described as having been passed by a “strong majority,” (the final bill didn’t get a single GOP vote in passage) and they make Tuesday’s sad show by civil rights groups all the more obviously partisan and pathetic. Those groups predictably accused Republicans of racism for trying to find out why Holder’s departments ran an operation that ended up resulting in the deaths of two American agents and hundreds of Mexican citizens. These groups have made themselves such obvious functionaries of the Democratic Party that their credibility is completely shot.
If there’s racism in the Fast and Furious case, it’s in protecting Holder and disregarding those Mexican citizens killed by FnF guns. Why is one American official’s political career worth more than the blood his departments’ actions apparently spilled, and which Holder is covering up? The most obvious answer: Because Eric Holder is black.
Update: Rumors are flying all over Washington that maybe eight, or as many as 21 Democrats could vote to hold Holder in contempt tomorrow.
Knowingly providing the gun used in a murder makes one an accessory to murder. Knowingly providing thousands of guns, used in hundreds of murders, makes on an accessory to mass murder.
“These groups have made themselves such obvious functionaries of the Democratic Party that their credibility is completely shot.”
Don’t forget, these groups are being covered by the MSM, so the true story of their lack of credibility will continue to be hidden.
Of course, this could be spread across the airwaves and it won’t make much difference to those who are catered to by these hustlers (after all, I saw the video of blacks protesting against Karl Rove. None of those taped knew who he was, and some were against Karl because he was running against Obama. Stupid is as stupid does, all thanks to the race hustlers and the failure of public education).
“The same men who are trying to stop Eric Holder are the same men who have tried to stop voting rights.” says a bunch of racist “civil rights” groups led by racist Al Sharpton. How long are these morons going to create racism by whites to further their own ends? Will it end before the suns coughs, sputters and dies?
– vote! Mr. Speaker, don’t hold the vote a minute before midnight.
The MSM is starting to (probably correctly) blame the NRA. I’d like to see them elaborate on how and why the NRA wants to get to the bottom of a gun-running operation. Narrative fail.
The Atlanta “National Center for Civil and Human Rights” had a groundbreaking today. It is too bad the President could not be there, though he was here yeasterday for campaign loot.
Now, I’m probably not going to like the center, because my guess is it will think, as far as the struggle for liberty goes, that time began with the fight for segregation, and nothing else came before, and that it will forget that Martin Luther King was only able to do what he did because of the nearly one thousand years of progress made by the Anglosphere and the West in laying down the principles that allowed his struggle–which was, after all, just one struggle in the fight for liberty that has occured over the centuries–to succeed. King only cast the seeds–he did not prepare the ground. The Americans and the English of the centuries before did that, and his efforts would have been possibly fruitless without that good work.
I doubt that American and English heritage will get acknowledged, and thus right now, until proved wrong, I could care less about the center (in addition to the fact that I would probably think it as the “DNC Center” all too often, since “partition” is a word unknown on the left). But the center did break ground today. In the city that enthusiastically welcomed Barack Obama.
Who might be a gun-runner to drug cartels.
“yeasterday”
Yesterday. Yeasterday is a baking holiday, I believe. Or a Paul McCartney song about cooking.
What this proves is that the media in this country isn’t center-left. It is extremist left. Even moderate democrats in Congress whose political life depends on the democrat party can see a problem with Fast and Furious.