What kind of charade is this – Erik holder has announced he will leave when a replacement is appointed, as if there are not deputies in his department to serve as acting Attorney General? We can only assume with this cast of characters that it is pure politics, certainly much more than a decision to spend more time with family or whatever the usual blandishment to cover his announcement.
We can see the timing as multipurpose, even if some are cross purposes – it is about flexibility not consistency, whatever the leverage, or shield, needed for the day. And it is not like he is actually leaving anytime soon. So take your pick.
- He is hoping to take the edge off the House contempt citation against him in some way. But then it is not like they have actually done anything about it.
- Valerie Jarrett has decided he needs to prepare his hers and Obama’s criminal defense?
- His conditions essentially require the approval of someone just as corrupt, and it will allow more time on the golf course with Obama.
Our heads are spinning regarding more possibilities as to the real reasons. So to avoid overload we turn to Stilton Jarlsberg at Hope n’ Change
These days, creating satire is hard because the actual news is so ridiculous. Today’s cartoon is a case in point. Eric Holder announced that he is resigning as Attorney General, but would serve until his replacement is found. So Hope n’ Change thought “wouldn’t it be funny to suggest that his replacement might be one of the few people on Earth who is even more of a race-baiting incompetent?!”
But no sooner had we finished the cartoon than we discovered that Al Sharpton is actually working with the White House to help select Holder’s successor. An idea so staggeringly bad that it’s almost impossible to come up with something worse.
Just kidding! There’s already a worse idea floating around out there! After Holder steps down, there are rumors that Barack Obama will nominate him to fill a Supreme Court slot after the president decrees, by executive order, that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has actually been legally dead for years.
Not to overstate the case, but the thought of Eric Holder joining the Supreme Court is about as appealing as a freaking bake sale at Auschwitz. He is a genuinely despicable human being; a racist of the first order, a serial obstructor of justice (and Justice), and a slithering toady who has reached new lows in enabling the illegal and anti-American actions of a rogue president and his party.
Hope n’ Change will be glad to see him go – but we’d be a lot happier seeing him go to jail.
OK, more “traditional” analysis of Holder’s record and his latest scheme decision are available from these links:
From today’s Wall Street Journal (via luxlibertas.com) :
Eric Holder’s Legacy of Politics: The Attorney General used Justice’s power for a divisive agenda
Ilya Shapiro writing at the Cato Institute has a good summation of Holder’s tenure, including mention of this remarkable feat:
Still, it must be said that Holder was a “uniter not a divider” on one front: under his reign, the Justice Department has suffered a record number of unanimous losses at the Supreme Court. In the last three terms alone, the government has suffered 13 such defeats – a rate double President Clinton’s and triple President Bush’s – in areas of law ranging from criminal procedure to property rights to securities regulation to religious freedom. By not just pushing but breaking through the envelope of plausible legal argument, Attorney General Holder has done his all to expand federal (especially executive) power and contract individual liberty beyond any constitutional recognition.
R Mall
I heard once Holder steps down officially he is going to pack his Black Panther beret and jet down to Ferguson to lead the marching.