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Quote Of The Day

November 8, 2011 by

Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. According to advanced copies of his written testimony, he is expected to say we need more gun control, that Operation Fast and Furious would not have happened if we had stronger gun control, and that the Republicans in Congress are being irresponsible regarding Project Gunwalker.

Mike Vanderboegh’s response to this and an AP headline about the hearing is priceless.

My favorite headline: Holder on ‘Fast and Furious’: Never again.

“Never again”!?!? Eric Holder taking the pledge on gunwalking is like Reinhard Heydrich swearing off Holocausts or Jeffrey Dahmer announcing that he is an enthusiastic convert to vegetarianism. Like every other criminal, Holder’s not sorry he committed the crime (in his case to advance the gun control agenda), but he’s damn sorry he got caught.

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Thirty And Growing

November 2, 2011 by 2 Comments

Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL) becomes the 30th Representative calling for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder due to Project Gunwalker.

Florida Republican Rep. Connie Mack became the latest congressman to demand that Holder step down, telling The Daily Caller late on Tuesday that “Eric Holder should resign Fast and Furiously!”

Mack is a high-profile political figure who entered Florida’s Republican primary for Senate last week. Mack’s decision to call for Holder to resign appears to signal that it’s politically popular.

His wife, Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) has also indicated she is “deeply concerned” about Holder’s involvment in Operation Fast and Furious but has not gone so far as to call for his ouster.

The other 29 congressmen include in order from most recent to oldest:

Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC)
Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA)
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD)
Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO)
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX)
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA)
Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL)
Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN)
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX)
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY)
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO)
Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN)
Rep. Allen West (R-FL)
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS)
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ)
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS)
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS)
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)
Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL)
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)
Rep. John Mica (R-FL)
Rep. Quico Canseco (R-TX)
Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL)
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID)
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX)
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ)

When Democrats start calling for Holder’s resignation, it will then become critical. As much as I’d like to see Holder gone now, I hope he sticks it out through 2012 so he becomes an electoral albatross around the neck of President Obama.

UPDATE: As I said in the headline – and growing. Four more Republicans have joined the call for Holder’s resignation. They are:

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI)
Rep. Diane Black (R-TN)
Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH)
Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-TX)

There are other Congressmen who have expressed concern and displeasure with Attorney General Eric Holder who have not gone so far as to ask for his resignation. Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) had this to say:

“At this point, it appears that a full scale cover up occurred, and Mr. Holder must answer the fundamental questions of what he knew and when he knew it, as should the White House staff who knew the details of ‘Operation Fast and Furious,’” Pearce said. “I would like to see the congressional investigation run its course and for Mr. Holder to show the veracity we rightfully expect from public officials.”

I find myself in agreement with Rep. Pearce’s call to let the investigation runs its course and to have Holder called to testify under oath which he is scheduled to do in December. If Holder resigns before the investigation is complete, it will lead to a call to stop the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearings and the complete scale of scandal will be hidden from public view. Given that building a rationale for more gun control seems to have been the impetus behind Operation Fast and Furious, the hearings need to continue.

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So Is Asst AG Lanny Breuer The Next Fall Guy?

November 1, 2011 by

Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer admitted in a statement released this afternoon that he knew of both Operation Wide Receiver and Operation Fast and Furious as early as April 2010.

Today, Breuer issued a statement saying he “regrets” that he didn’t alert others in Justice Department leadership, apparently including his boss Attorney General Eric Holder.

In a separate ATF case reported by CBS News earlier this year, called “Fast and Furious” and started under the Obama Administration, Breuer says he likewise regrets not alerting leaders about the similarities in the cases. That, said Breuer, was a mistake.

Given the increasing number of Representatives calling for Attorney General Eric Holder’s ouster as well as the new ad campaign from the NRA, my surmise is that this is an effort to deflect attention away from Holder. It appears to me that Breuer is willing to take the fall in order to protect those higher up in the food chain. It would be interesting to know what perk or promise he is being given in exchange for being the designated fall guy.

I think a pattern is developing in which mid-level officials are taking the hit in order to protect Holder and eventually President Obama. First you had former US Attorney for the District of Arizona Dennis Burke and Acting ATF Director Ken Melson take blame and now you have Assistant AG Lanny Breuer do the same thing. At the rate this is going, the Administration is going to run out of successively more important fall guys. However, it won’t be for a lack of trying on their part.

UPDATE: Katie Pavlich of Townhall.com writing today about Breuer’s sudden acknowledgement of knowing about Operation Fast and Furious:

Breuer’s testimony and statements about “not making connections” between two separate but similar gunwalking programs and his claim he never told Attorney General Holder about his concerns or Fast and Furious at all, raise new questions.

Why is Breuer coming out with these revelations now? The House Oversight Committee Investigation into Fast and Furious has been going on for months, yet Breuer all the sudden regrets not sounding the alarm about the dangers of gunwalking when Operation Fast and Furious started in the Fall of 2009? While claiming he never told Attorney General Eric Holder about the program? Although Breuer claims he personally never told Holder about the tactics being used in Fast and Furious, five detailed memos about the lethal program dated July and August 2010 were addressed directly to Holder. Despite Breuer’s testimony, the question of “who authorized Fast and Furious,” remains unanswered.

It looks like someone, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, is falling on a sword, and that sword happens to be Eric Holder’s.

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Walsh Becomes 4th Congressman To Call Upon Holder To Resign

October 28, 2011 by

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) was one of the speakers at the recent Gun Rights Policy Conference held in Chicago and made a very strong, pro-gun address. He has now become the fourth Congressman to call on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over Project Gunwalker. In his letter to Holder, Congressman Walsh said the motivation for the operation seemed to be to curtail American’s Second Amendment rights under the pretext of stopping guns going to Mexico.

Your Department has made an enormous error in judgment. It instructed federally-licensed firearms dealers to illegally sell at least 2,000 guns that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) intended to be trafficked to drug cartels in Mexico. The results of this error in judgment have implicated the United States in well over one hundred deadly crimes and the deaths of two federal agents.

This not only raises serious questions about your ability to serve as the head of the Justice Department, but also begs the question of why an anti-gun Administration would knowingly force licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to violent criminals. I raise this because Operation Fast and Furious — if the facts of this case had not come to light — would have been used by this Administration as another false argument to attack law-abiding American gun owners.

The American people deserve to know if your Department had any intent to link the legal purchase of firearms here in the U.S. to crimes committed near our southern border. Operation Fast and Furious funneled firearms legally purchased at gun shops in the U.S. to known criminal syndicates to prove these syndicates have access to legal purchased weapons. This is a deliberate attempt to vilify and attack the millions of gun owners in America who value our Second Amendment and have never broken the law.