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‘Break into a Prevent Defense for the Second Half and Try to Preserve a Tie’

Posted on | January 1, 2011 | 5 Comments

That’s how Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress describes Eric Holder’s strategy for dealing with the incoming Republican majority in the House:

Despite the fact that the New Black Panthers were captured on video with weapons and fascist-style uniforms at the entrance to a polling place, Holder said: “There is no there, there.” Really? Heady stuff from the attorney general.
When asked about the fact that Holder’s Civil Rights Division is hostile to racially equal enforcement of the law from top to bottom, Holder again deploys another cliché, calling it a “made up controversy.” Holder doubled down: “All I have on my side with regard to that is the facts and the law.” . . .

Read the whole thing. A lot of shenanigans that have gone on during the first two years of the Obama administration will be investigated by House committees in the next two years. There’s a lot of that stuff that’s been ignored because when Pelosi’s Democrats were in charge, they refused to do any meaningful oversight of the executive branch.

Expect to hear lots of administration officials (and their apologists in the JournoList community) making lame excuses for various malfeasances and claiming that the GOP is engaged in “witch hunts,” etc. Keep your grains of salt handy.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    Be funny to see if they hang tight or start covering their own asses. Many buses, no waiting.

  • Mariner

    A lot of shenanigans that have gone on during the first two years of the Obama administration will be investigated by House committees in the next two years.

    No, Stacy — they won’t.

    Republicans will decide that investigations would be divisive and counterproductive.

    They don’t have the integrity or the courage to actually punish Democrats for wrongdoing.

  • Adobe_Walls

    That this Regime’s leaders, or at least one of them recognizes that they are on defense, demonstrates the efficacy of mounting a strong offense. Maintaining a tie allows the Bolshevik’s successes to become entrenched. It is up to us to continuously remind the new legislators why we sent them to Washington and to remind the leftists that we still recognize them for the unmitigated evil that they are. 2011 needs to be the year of brinkmanship. Clearly this administration intends to continue the coup d’eta they started through legislation via the regulatory agencies. The blow back for illegal regulatory excess and over reach should not be limited to resolutions that in theory cancel regulations that defies the legitimate will and responsibility of congress. After the current Continuing Resolution expires in March there should be zero fund appropriated for the offending agencies. Executive orders cannot compel the House to approve funds for anything. The various agencies and Depts. budgets must be debated and passed separately. What is Obama going to do veto the budget for the Dept. of Edu. because there is no budget for the EPA or the FCC? While implementing the “Poor Mans Balanced Budget Amendment” IE; refusing to raise the debt limit is probable not realistic, it doesn’t have to be raised by a trillion dollars. Raise it 200 billion at a time make that issue front page time and time again every couple of months.

  • Quartermaster

    I predict you will need a few truckloads of salt to have enough grains of salt.

    The Demonrats need to be punished. Harshly. The Reps won’t do it without a lot of pressure because they are political cowards.

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