Tea Party Patriots’Jenny Beth Martin offered these comments on the resignation of Attorney General
Eric Holder:
He will go down in history as the nation’s most
corrupt attorney general. Americans must never forget that the blood of Border
Patrol Agent Brian Terry is on his hands. Eric Holder’s illegal scheme to put
guns in the hands of the Mexican cartels led to that brave patriot’s death. He
became the first attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, which is
fitting, given his utter and open contempt for the American people and the
Constitution.
He began his tenure by dismissing the voter
intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, and he
slithers out of office having played defense for Lois Lerner by his refusal to
appoint a special prosecutor. He is a disgrace to that honorable office.
As one chapter ends in the Obama Administration’s
war on the Constitution, Americans must remain engaged and vigilant. There’s no
doubt the President will try to ram through a lame-duck Senate another partisan
hack for Attorney General. We cannot allow that to happen.
Over at PJ Media,Roger L. Simon had this to say:
he was a political
bagman, a low rent consigliere whose unquestioning obedience to power was
evidently appreciated by Barack Obama and rewarded with the full position of
attorney general. Obama knew what he was getting for our number one law
enforcement official. With that background, no wonder Holder investigates
nothing, leaving “Fast & Furious,” the IRS, Benghazi, all the scandals,
untouched, stonewalled or deliberately obfuscated. He was chosen to be a
“Good German” and he was one. He spent most of his time inveighing
against what he perceived to be racial injustice.
Now I have a theory
about the etiology of Holder’s fixation on race. When you know deep down you’re
a dishonest person, when you have had to eat the bitter pill of your own
corruption who knows how many times (even Clinton finally admitted that he had
gone too far pardoning Rich and damaged his own reputation), you have to invent
a narrative for yourself to justify your activities. So over may years
Holder developed what I have called elsewhere a “nostalgia
for racism.” No matter that racism was diminishing in our
culture, he had to keep racism alive, believe it was alive. If racism
were going away, he would no longer have a raison d’être, an excuse for
his biased behavior, an excuse, as it turned out, to go beyond the law, act
unilaterally and punish political enemies.
Toward this end, in a
sense, Holder encouraged racism, as did Obama. They are both slightly
more polished versions of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Like Jackson and
Sharpton, they act as if they care about the black man or woman in the street,
but in actuality they just care about themselves. The racial posturing is
a form of moral narcissism that works to preserve racism, not to defeat it.
It’s not by accident
black America is suffering under Obama/Holder. At least subconsciously,
it’s by design. . . .
Who will be the next AG? The WaPo reports that
Possible contenders include U.S.
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr.; former White House counsel Kathryn
Ruemmler; Tony West, the former associate attorney general who just stepped
down; Loretta E. Lynch, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York;
Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York; and
Jenny Durkan, who is about to step down as the U.S. attorney for the Western
District of Washington state.
Perhaps I am not
paying close enough attention, but I never heard of any of them. I doubt that
the Obama administration would consider, oh, Kris Kobach.
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