Holder to be found in contempt or not?

[Rapier]

On June 20th, 9 days from today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is scheduled to vote to charge Eric Holder, Attorney General, with contempt of congress.

Do you think it will be a yea vote and do you think the contempt charges will stick in the full house?

All I can say is, what took you guys so long!
Ed

[buckhunter]

Nothing will happen. No charges, no jail time no land slap. All we can hope for is that he goes away after the next election. He ain't no friend of mine.

[Gil Martin]

Who can say for sure.? I believe there is enough evidence for a contempt citation. All the best...
Gil

[Larryjk]

Even though we may have "elevated feelings" about this matter, the contempt citation will depend on "facts". If he did refuse to give the investigting committee existing documents they asked for without legal reasons to refuse, then contempt is in order. I believe they should nail his butt and it would be legal to do so. I think the full house should back this citation.

[powell&hyde]

I agree, "What took so long"? Hopefully they do find him in contempt with the full house voting for it and fire his a$$ & bring him before a judge and jury. If they do not, us Citizens need to dump about 50 tanker trucks full of chlorine on capital hill.

[Seawolf1090]

I'd like to see it happen, as Holder has gotten used to getting away with far too much. But, can we really believe anything would be done to one of the Magic Kenyan's "Little Buddies"......?

[Larryjk]

Holder will not be voted on this Wednesday because he agreed to gi ve them some documents if they would hold off. So they will hold off and he will give them some paper, but not enough to burn him. And the beat goes on.

[powell&hyde]

Today Obama exerts executive privileges over these documents. What are they trying to hide? http://content.usatoday.com/communit...e-privileged/1

[Rapier]

Well, Issa is proceeding with the contempt hearing. The reason is in this article, it is an amazing read, they have Holder by the nads, they caught him lying to congress, etc., and have the documents in hand to prove he lied. There is a mole in the DOJ who has been sending Issa documents.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...nally-arrived/

This is all very similar to Nixon and how he tried to get out from under Watergate. Executive Privilege will not save you when you lie, under oath, to Congress.
Ed

[Rapier]

And now you have the answer, the Committee voted to hold him in contempt and send the citation to the full House.

The one thing that really makes me sick about this is the Democraps acting like this is about them politically and not about people being killed, murdered by these guns, legitimate gun owners being blamed, the Attorney General lying or anything else but their petty little political carriers. You got to see right out in the open yesterday, public officials not give a diddly damn about murder, honesty or integrity and be totally focused on their politics. Frankly it was disgusting and we need to remember what we saw, come November.

Terry's death is very bad but do not forget the ICE agents and the 10,000 or so Mexican citizens these guns were used to kill including Mexican Government officials.
Ed

[powell&hyde]

I watched the vote go down yesterday, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and especially Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) who both stood up for Holder saying that he was trying his best.

Them 2 and others were slammed by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (UT-03), I did send him an e-mail congratulating him even thou I do not live in Utah!!

[buckhunter]

Naturally 2 of our idiots patted him on the back.

[Rapier]

Today will tell the tail, we should get a full hearing and vote in the House, one motion on Criminal Contempt and one motion on Civil Contempt. Looks like up to 24 Democrats are going to vote for contempt.

What is troubling to me is the attempt by the Black Caucus to make this into a Racial issue. They plan a walk out. That to me is insulting to the house as a body.

Before this is over we well may see a Supreme Court decision on Obama's Executive Privilege claim as well, just like Nixon.
Ed

[Rapier]

17 Democrats voted with all but one Republican to find Holder in Contempt of Congress today. Now the drama really starts as we see if we still have a democracy of and by the people or a Chicago Mafia in the halls of DC.
Ed

[Skinny Shooter]

It's a Republic.