‘Why In The Hell Is Eric Holder Still Attorney General?’

Posted on | June 9, 2012 | 57 Comments

by Smitty

E. T. Williams Jr. just rocks:

To answer Mr. William’s question, Holder is sill the AGJ because he is both a Reliable Tool and, also, he Knows Too Much. My guess is that Holder has a signed presidential pardon in his safe. Would you exhibit the sort of cheek that Eric Holder offers before Congress without a Get Out Of Jail Free card in hot standby?

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57 Responses to “‘Why In The Hell Is Eric Holder Still Attorney General?’”

JeffS
June 9th, 2012 @ 5:31 pm

It’s a symbiotic relationship: He carries Obama’s water, as Obama carries his. So Obama keeps him on, so they both stay ahead of the juries.

This works only as long as Obama is President. Should Obama lose the election,the Dhimmicrats infesting Congress will have to cover him, and it’s problematical just how long they can do that. His flying monkeys still inside the DOJ might be able to delay the inevitable some.

All in all, I expect Holder to suddenly relocate to a foreign nation lacking an extradition treaty with America.
JeffS
June 9th, 2012 @ 5:36 pm

I missed your comment about the pardon. It’s hard to imagine even Obama pardoning Holder for mass murder. Possible, but I suspect that if Obama loses the election, he’ll consider himself the automatic Democratic candidate for the 2016 cycle. He’ll have hard going with this particular albatross around his neck. All that hope&change went swirling down the toilet these past 4 years.

And I’m not familiar with the details of the Presidential pardoning laws, but aren’t there some exclusions? To think that creature is able to walk free, after all the pain and suffering he’s caused, is outrageous.
jwallin
June 9th, 2012 @ 5:42 pm

Because John Boehner is a pussy.

And a RINO.

Let’s see, that would make him a RINOpuss?
Dianna Deeley
June 9th, 2012 @ 5:48 pm

Er, what is an AJ? And is Holder one?
Daniel A. Teufel
June 9th, 2012 @ 6:10 pm

I going with gay-sex and other salacious activity. With each other, I don’t know. And I don’t care. These two have dirt on each other, that could ruin both of them. Oh, plus they are both ego-maniacs, with paternal dictatorial aspirations. Oh,and continuous media and Hollywood, propaganda. Oh, and a dependent society that with no aspirations, public school education, and a tendency to vote for “stuff”, with a callous disregard for where said “stuff” comes from. Should I go on or just say “resist we much”. #resist44
SDN
June 9th, 2012 @ 6:11 pm

Doesn’t need cover from Congress: impeachment NOT criminal; penalty limited to removal from office, which is automatic if One loses.

The precedent is already well-established that we don’t prosecute political appointees for acts committed in their term in office, because it leads in about three short steps to people refusing to give up the office and open fighting.

While I think a second Civil War is inevitable and necessary, anyone contemplating post term prosecutions should be aware of where it will lead.
Adobe_Walls
June 9th, 2012 @ 6:17 pm

“While I think a second Civil War is inevitable and necessary, anyone contemplating post term prosecutions should be aware of where it will lead.”

Well you’ve certainly sold me on the idea.
JeffS
June 9th, 2012 @ 6:18 pm

I hear you, but it still sucks, because that door opens both ways, and sets the stage for malfeasance in office if there is no possibility of criminal prosecution. A “get out of jail” card, as it were, especially for those who are counting on that precedent coming into office.
smitty
June 9th, 2012 @ 6:29 pm

Is it? Obama doesn’t hold himself responsible for anything. Somebody who can help abet Obama’s irresponsibility is likely to receive copious support.
smitty
June 9th, 2012 @ 6:29 pm

Attorney General.
Dianna Deeley
June 9th, 2012 @ 6:37 pm

You still have “AJ”. Which can mean lots of things – Associate Justice and Asshat Journalist spring to mind – but not “Attorney General.”
Acajoe
June 9th, 2012 @ 7:01 pm

That presidential pardon only works in this country. Most of Holder’s body count is being rung up in Mexico. Mitt should be visiting the neighbors; talk fast & furious and extradition with Calderon. Keystone XL with Harper.
richard mcenroe
June 9th, 2012 @ 7:24 pm

You’re not thinking like a Democrat, or a Progressive. There are no rules.
Adobe_Walls
June 9th, 2012 @ 7:35 pm

I doubt that there will be many if any post Obamsky prosecutions, preemptive pardons or not (and Holder will surely need one).

There should still be rigorous investigations into every department and agency. The usual practice is to simply move on after Jan 20. This needs to stop. If Holder’s previous actions in the Clinton administration had been properly investigated and exposed he would most certainly never have become AG. Not that he would have been prosecutable but he would have become so “damaged goods” that he could never have been able to make a living “practicing law” at any level.

There are probably thousands of career bureaucrats who have committed acts exceeding their authority or abuse of power that while not criminally prosecutable or not easily so, are enough to merit firing and baning from government service.

Holder was a second or third tier political appointee under Clinton, his involvement in the pardoning of terrorists and other nefarious actions under Clinton went largely unreported, or at least not reported enough for most Americans to know who and what he is when it became time for him to return from the wood work. When ever the Social Democrats lose control of the administration the lower echelon appointees take overpaid positions in some NGO or think-tank where they have the leisure to become ever more radicalized while being spared the horror of having to do something productive in order to make a living. They then return to even more powerful positions in government when a new Social Democrat regains the White House. Meanwhile the “sleeper cells” in the career regulatory positions can abandon their more subtle activities and re-devote their actions to regulating our liberties away and tormenting our economy.

Assuming the whole show doesn’t simply collapse in the mean time (a big if) and whether or not a Republican is elected in 2012 or 2016 at some point the Social Democrats will regain the executive branch. At that time those who are minions of Holder, Sebelius, Lisa Jackson et al will move to the higher positions. Just imagine how radical they will be.

When ever the next Regime change occurs and once again assuming it isn’t already too late, there needs to be a purge of the 5th column careerists and a thorough exposition of the political appointees down to their lowest level. Both they and the careerists, whether their actions are illegal, merely violations of civil service rules, or improper excessive use of authority or abuse of power, these people must be hounded out of government if not society. Their lives and their lively hoods must be utterly destroyed, else we never be rid of them and therefore we and our freedom will never be safe.
smitty
June 9th, 2012 @ 7:36 pm

First day, new eyes. Thank you!
DaveO
June 9th, 2012 @ 7:46 pm

There’s no exclusion to Presidential Pardons. IIRC, Cheney had one in his safe. With the Progressive emphasis on lawfare, and use of proxies like Kimberlin and the pink ladies to conduct lawfare and threaten arrest at every public venue; and that Republicans play by the rules as defined by Progressives and do nothing, it follows that Holder and a select few other Presidential henchfolk have blanket pardons.

The only weakness in Holder’s armor is his work in securing a Presidential Pardon for Marc Rich.
DaveO
June 9th, 2012 @ 7:48 pm

I disagree. The Progressives are more than willing to prosecute conservatives because conservatives are evil and even law-abiding actions are done with evil intent.

If we go after the President’s henchfolk, we remove the protections for genuine, law-abiding appointees and employees to do their job.
DaveO
June 9th, 2012 @ 8:01 pm

A lot of the discussions of going after Holder seem to discard that the Left said the EXACT SAME THING about Bush-43 and coy.

Holder’s slaughter of Mexicans = Cheney’s slaughter of untold billions of Iraqis (Leftists aren’t good with math, it’s not a diversity-course at college).

Holder’s flipping the bird at Congress = John Woo’s written legal opinion on enhanced interrogation techniques.

Brett Kimberlin et al = USMC and USA take down of Afghanistan and Iraq. Leftists don’t take college courses that are strong to comparison and contrast. Everything is relative, after all.

Holder is, above all, self interested. After the SCOAMF is sent back to Chicago. Holder will do something using resources that are illegal and dare anyone to take on a black man.
JeffS
June 9th, 2012 @ 8:10 pm

Yeah, I’d forgotten. Thanks for the reminder — sometimes morals and ethics are a blinder.
Adjoran
June 9th, 2012 @ 8:13 pm

Attorney Jeneral.

It isn’t right, but neither is Holder.
Adjoran
June 9th, 2012 @ 8:33 pm

Holder was a political bag man, an operative. He’s never been in private practice except as a “name” for a DC Democratic firm during the Dubya years, no notable achievements. He went straight to DOJ out of law school. Reagan appointed him a DC judge (local, not federal lifetime appointment), probably to get him out of DOJ. Clinton made him USAT for DC and later back to DOJ.

He most certainly has knowledge that would damage Obama; as a political animal, no way he authorized Fast & Furious without telling the boss what he was doing. Remember before the story broke, Obama told Sarah Brady’s group that he couldn’t push for gun control laws, but was operating “under the radar” to promote GC.

If he needs a pardon, he will get it – Obama just won’t care, and he will make all his pardons of cronies blanket pardons “for any and all crimes” so they can’t be prosecuted for anything, period.
ombdz
June 9th, 2012 @ 8:55 pm

Why is Eric Holder still AG? Because, unfortunately, Obama is still President. Oh, and as noted, because he’s a Reliable Tool. Which makes him a perfect match for Obama, who’s also a tool, but of a somewhat different variety … http://bit.ly/qVdDUt
Adobe_Walls
June 9th, 2012 @ 8:56 pm

As far as Obamsky and Holder are concerned it is the Right Wing Nut Jobs who refuse to accept how outdated and unnecessary the 2nd amendment is who are ultimately responsible. Were it not our insistence that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Shall not be Abridged, they wouldn’t have been forced to act nefariously.
Adobe_Walls
June 9th, 2012 @ 9:08 pm

It’s not just that conservatives are evil, but therefore progressives believe that conservatives should be prosecuted for acts they believe should be illegal. I don’t think that in the future conservatives will be safe no matter whether we set precedence or not. The left partially opened that door in going after CIA and DoJ lawyers at the beginning on this Regime. Once they regain power after losing this November as they inevitably will barring corrective action (see my comment below) they will not let it slip from their hands ever again.
JeffS
June 9th, 2012 @ 9:45 pm

Attorney Jughead?
Info
June 9th, 2012 @ 10:04 pm

In a tangential note, has anyone seen these bleatings in the WaPo about how Nixon worse than previously thought? Talk about double standards. “How was Nixon in comparison to LBJ?” is the question I’d like to see answered.

Reading between the lines of his memoir “RN” I gather that was how Nixon tried to judge what was OK and not, doing what LBJ did and dialing it back some for safety’s sake. Of course, he was judged by the higher “anti-communist” standard, not the “it’s okay, he’s one of us” standard. Thoughts?
Nequelquepart
June 9th, 2012 @ 10:32 pm

Yeah what a shame, that way the totalitarian fascist left could slaughter them as they did in all the other countries who robbed their citizens of that right. Hope you meet trayvon in a dark alley and this time let’s hope it is trayvon carrying. Spineless coward.
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Adobe_Walls
June 9th, 2012 @ 10:59 pm

Reading comprehension is your friend or could be if the two of you were properly introduced.
SamIam9
June 9th, 2012 @ 11:11 pm

There is a very simple answer as to why Holder is still AG and will remain so:

November
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 9th, 2012 @ 11:14 pm

Thank you Zilla!

Congratulations Pete!

Congratulations Bob!

It has been a hell of a week.

And special thanks to Wombat!
ReaganiteRepublican
June 10th, 2012 @ 12:39 am

Good freaking question!
Pathfinder's wife
June 10th, 2012 @ 5:21 am

Holder’s still AG because he works as a shield for Obama (and he has a lot of dirt on him and his faction).
He’s also got a lot of dirt on the Clinton faction.

And…he’s got a lot of dirt on the GOP as well — in the midst of watching the Dems squirm on FnF it’s always lucrative to pay attention to who on the Right is really not saying much about it.

Holder’s a nasty piece of work, but he’s not stupid, and he knows where the bodies are buried (literally) on both sides.
jwallin
June 10th, 2012 @ 6:57 am

Picky, picky, picky. Some people just aren’t satisfied with filling in the blanks.

(i missed that until 6:00 am sunday. and I read your question twice. Some of us read between the lines and others see what’s actually there. We need both.)
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Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 10th, 2012 @ 9:10 am

I will never think of this card the same way again…
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 10th, 2012 @ 9:12 am

If Obama loses this cycle, what does he pardon Eric Holder for? There are no charges pending. The only think may be if Issa goes after him for contempt. And if he pardoned him on that, well it would not help him if other more substantial crimes are discovered later.
Wombat_socho
June 10th, 2012 @ 10:06 am

Wrong thread, but you’re welcome anyway. 🙂
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 10th, 2012 @ 10:33 am

I need some coffee. Sorry. But thanks anyway.
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richard40
June 10th, 2012 @ 12:18 pm

Obama has to pardon Holder, he knows too much that can implicate Obama as well.
Beauangel
June 10th, 2012 @ 12:45 pm

Hold Holder over into the new Conservative regime, supposing that we will have one come 1/20/2013. Bring him up on charges then when he is without the POTUS protection he enjoys now. Well, at least that’s my dream scenario. Yeah!!
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June 10th, 2012 @ 1:20 pm

I like the idea of extraditing Holder to Mexico. BTW, if he’s given a blanket pardon, what reason could he have for not testifying against Obama? Wouldn’t that be the equivalent of blanket immunity?
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Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 10th, 2012 @ 1:42 pm

Everyone wants a Get ouf of jail free card!
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 10th, 2012 @ 1:43 pm

Eric Holder, is that you?
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 10th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm

I would say Attorney Jerk, but that is an oxymoron!
Pathfinder's wife
June 10th, 2012 @ 2:36 pm

Mexican standoff (pardon the pun) — Holder keeps his job as well as a cushy life for not dropping on Barry. Barry keeps/protects Holder as long as Holder acts as his shield, as well as a shield for everyone behind Barry (and those are the people Holder most definitely doesn’t want to run foul of because he doesn’t have as much leverage on them, so better to keep this up and keep his cushy life, no?).

The Repubs don’t have anything sweeter to offer at the moment (and like I said, keep an eye on who on the right side of the aisle is backing off, or never got on board in the first place — they may have a vested interest in this going no further as well).
Why do I say this? Human nature — this thing is a gold mine, a ticket for the Repubs to ride…so why aren’t all of them jumping all over it? That doesn’t pass the smell test to me.
Christy Waters
June 10th, 2012 @ 2:37 pm

This guy is f**king awesome.