Eric
Holder is not John Mitchell breaking the law with abandon nor is he Janet Reno
who allowed rules of engagement that led to the deaths of many innocent people at
Waco nor is he Alberto Gonzalez who signed off on torture.
What
Eric Holder is, quite frankly, is incompetent and ineffectual. He has reached a point (perhaps he was always
at this point) where he can no longer do his job. He is the living embodiment of the Peter
Principle – he has reached his dream position which also happens to be the job
he cannot do properly and he is now stuck there.
One area
he has shown a fervor for is in enforcing the Patriot Act, taking a very wide
latitude on what exact powers this gives him.
Some
problems with Eric Holder….
1.)
Said banks were too big to prosecute
2.)
helped negotiate a weakened mortgage settlement for those victimized by
predatory banks and home loan companies
3.) Backpedaled
on closing Gitmo and civilian trials for detainees
4.) Signed
off on the legality of drone strikes which are not surgical at all and kill
innocent people further isolating America from civilization
5.)
Clamped down on whistleblowers, those revealing illegal and criminal action in
government
6.)
Clamped down on medicinal marijuana as hard as the previous Republican administration
and has continued the mistaken war on drugs.
7.)
Signed off on warrants for wiretaps and e-mail searches on journalists
The
last one is important because it now appears he may have committed perjury as
he first denied knowledge of this.
Perjury, by itself, is a good enough reason for Eric Holder to go.
I
haven’t mentioned Fast and Furious because like Benghazi I consider it a bogus
scandal, something that occurred at a local level and the appropriate heads have
already rolled. However, when combined
with all his other scandals, it doesn’t look good.
I
look at Holder as he testifies on Capitol Hill his head in his hands, a miserable
tired expression on his face, his voice slow and whiny as he tries to answer
back Republicans seeking to score political points and I just don’t see him as
the man for the job anymore (if he ever was).
Janet
Reno firmly refused to take blames she was responsible for and hung on for all
eight years of the Clinton administration.
Holder doesn’t have that force of will nor assuredness. He is a
showhorse only with no real accomplishments kind of like his boss, the
president, but without his boss’s deft touch with journalists and in public
speaking. They say President Obama might
not want to fire him because it would be hard to fill the spot with someone
Republicans wouldn’t filibuster. That is
hardly a good reason.
If you can’t help, get out of the way. Eric Holder needs to get out of the way and
resign as Attorney General of the United States so someone with principles and
leaderships skill can come in and do something about the very really problems
facing the US Justice system and how it behaves in combat as well.
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