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- "obama’s Organizing For Action, Will Have Information About Everything On Every Individual In Ways That It’s Never Been Done Before”
Maxine Waters, describing the fundamental transformation of his election committee to one aligned with his personal political goals.WATERS: Well, you know, I don’t know; and I think some people are missing something here. The president...
- Poll Finds Huge Majority Of Americans Think Obama Abused His Power With Use Of Executive Privilege In Fast And Furious Case, 56%–29%…
Via The Hill: A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately — particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for...
- Headline, British Daily The Telegraph: "the Fast And Furious Scandal Is Turning Into President Obama's Watergate"
From the Telegraph: Obama is repeating many of the mistakes that led to Nixon's resignation in 1974Fast and furious hasn’t been discussed a lot in the mainstream media, which is why the facts can seem so preposterous when you read them for the first...
- Byrd: Obama In Power Grab
This is getting good. . . from Politico h/t Dr Bulldog Byrd: Obama in power grab JOHN BRESNAHAN 2/25/09 11:24 AM EST Byrd is a stern constitutional scholar who has always stood up for the legislative branch in its role in checking the power of the White...
- A Perfect Opportunity To "moveon" Otherwise, Bypartisan Efforts Are Horseshit, And It's Just Going To Be 4 Years Of Trench Warfare
Choose, democrats. NYT: Congressional Democrats prepare to move forward with investigations of the Bush administration "The Bush administration overstepped in its exertion of executive privilege, and may very well try to continue to shield...
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Real Questions about the Executive Privilege Fiasco
- While it appears that the president himself does not have to be personally involved in a conversation to claim executive privilege, how many times in history has this been done?
- How many times during non-wartime moments has executive privilege been claimed over congress investigating the death of an american officer?
- How many times in history has executive privilege been used when the executive branch has been caught in a lie (in my lifetime I can think of only one other - 1974)?
Now perhaps the answer to 1, is many times.
Perhaps the answer to 2 is many times
Perhaps prior to Nixon the answer to 3 is many times.
If the answer to these questions is, ‘quite a few times’ the admin is off the hook and this can be CLAIMED to be political. Too bad for the Terry family then, I guess. Who do THEY see about this?
If the answer to these questions is, ‘quite a few times’ the admin is off the hook and this can be CLAIMED to be political. Too bad for the Terry family then, I guess. Who do THEY see about this?
However, since Holder, who neglected to prosecute men wielding clubs at a voting station, clubs which could be meant for only one purpose at such a place, has now admitted there was no Fast and Furious PRIOR to this administration, it is IMPOSSIBLE to imagine that if this had occurred under ‘W’, Nancy Pelosi, Waxman, Wiener (may his career rest in peace), Steve Cohen of TN, Dingell, Barney Frank, John Conyers, Maxine Waters, etc. would NOT be moving right this second to have the man IMPEACHED.
Now, I certainly am not in favor of that, but it is FLABBERGASTING that Obama would invoke executive privilege over revealing emails and docs concerning how and why the justice department ended up lying to Congress over the death of an american officer by weapons they encouraged the smuggling of for any reason other than it was both political DEATH, and significant people were going to go to jail.
If Mr. Romney should be elected, there will be calls to open this up. When this occurs I would normally say forget it, it’s just political vengeance, but what about the man’s family?
Democrats with conscience should speak FORCEFULLY to Mr. Obama over this, and employees at justice with knowledge of the realities have a moral responsibility which cannot be avoided.
Brian Terry is dead.
Murdered by a gun Mr. Holder CERTAINLY agreed (somehow) to smuggle into Mexico, then colluded in some way to cover that prior fact up?
The need to both find out if that horrible assertion is factual in either half is, since the man was murdered, one of those things that is impossible to grant benefit of the doubt on.
The documents, as was FINALLY the case with Harriet Myers and Karl Rove, should be released, and no one was killed there.
This is BAD, but compared to the economy, organizationally it’s just another example of amateurish incompetent execution of ideology over governance.
Barack Obama will be recorded as the worst president since the depression, and may well exceed James Buchanan once the legacy of these ideological stupidities play out.
- "obama’s Organizing For Action, Will Have Information About Everything On Every Individual In Ways That It’s Never Been Done Before”
Maxine Waters, describing the fundamental transformation of his election committee to one aligned with his personal political goals.WATERS: Well, you know, I don’t know; and I think some people are missing something here. The president...
- Poll Finds Huge Majority Of Americans Think Obama Abused His Power With Use Of Executive Privilege In Fast And Furious Case, 56%–29%…
Via The Hill: A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately — particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for...
- Headline, British Daily The Telegraph: "the Fast And Furious Scandal Is Turning Into President Obama's Watergate"
From the Telegraph: Obama is repeating many of the mistakes that led to Nixon's resignation in 1974Fast and furious hasn’t been discussed a lot in the mainstream media, which is why the facts can seem so preposterous when you read them for the first...
- Byrd: Obama In Power Grab
This is getting good. . . from Politico h/t Dr Bulldog Byrd: Obama in power grab JOHN BRESNAHAN 2/25/09 11:24 AM EST Byrd is a stern constitutional scholar who has always stood up for the legislative branch in its role in checking the power of the White...
- A Perfect Opportunity To "moveon" Otherwise, Bypartisan Efforts Are Horseshit, And It's Just Going To Be 4 Years Of Trench Warfare
Choose, democrats. NYT: Congressional Democrats prepare to move forward with investigations of the Bush administration "The Bush administration overstepped in its exertion of executive privilege, and may very well try to continue to shield...