How does the AG STILL have a Job?

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Did this man lie under oath?

So what does it take to get fired in Big Government today? If you run the IRS, at least temporarily, and you are set to leave your post in a month, then you may be asked to resign when your organization targets people based on political and religious beliefs that run counter to that of the ruling party.  Oh yeah, and all of this started before you took office, then you might get fired. Or maybe if your firing helps out the ruling party as was the case with the IRS and its former acting director Steven Miller, by firing Mr. Miller and effectively ending his public service career the ruling party can be seen to somewhat distance themselves from the IRS scandal.  Because, as Americans, we are too dumb to see through this blatant political attempt of deflection of blame.

However, if you are the Attorney General, you can continue a program that runs guns illegally into Mexico, lose track of the guns, and eventually those guns kill an American border guard. Then you target a reporter with a subpoena of his phone records during an investigation of a security leak and to skirt any First Amendment issues, you know the one that says something about a free press, you label the reporter as a co-conspirator but this is ok because he works for Fox News. Then, once again, you target reporters, this time from the AP, in another security leak investigation.

Then you can go into Congress and not give accurate testimony and refuse Congressional attempts to have your office produce documents, as is required by the Constitution. You then call a the behavior of a sitting member of Congress “unacceptable and it is shameful” because he is trying to pin down your story 

Eric Holder will be brought back in front of Congress in the next couple of weeks to account for not only his roles in these scandals but to account for his previous accounting before Congress. This man MUST lose his job and should be indicted for perjury to Congress if it can be proven that he mislead or lied while under oath.

This will not happen because he has some strange type of hold on the President. I wonder just what dirt he has that is keeping him from losing his job. Lord knows that if this were a Republican administration the AG would be out on the street i.e. Alberto Gonzales and there would be cries from the media for impeachment for willful violation of the First Amendment rights of all Americans as well as the use of a federal agency to intimidate your opponents.  I guess Anita Dunn’s isn’t the only person in the Presidents circle who admires Mao.

A Pyrrhic Victory on Benghazi

Republicans in Congress need to ensure they do not win the battle at the cost of the overall good of their party. Let’s look at things realistically; most Americans, and almost all the media, don’t care about the semantics and the deceit that the Administration put forth in the days and months after the September 11^th 2012 attacks in Benghazi.  Outside of the conservative echo chamber, very few people care, it is sad but true. People that I have discussions with believe that the President and his administration tried to hide the true nature of the attacks in order to keep the President looking strong on terrorism for the November election. Most are willing to forgive and forget as long as security has been raised and these mistakes don’t happen again.

Thanks in a large part to the whistleblowers and Sharyl Attkisson, @sharylattkisson, we have learned the Administration did indeed try to convince the American people that the attacks were not based on Islamic extremists’ intentions to destroy the US but to pass it off as a spontaneous reaction to an internet based movie trailer. Attkisson published a story earlier that detailed the changes made to the talking points to soften the blow of four dead Americans. This is a huge story but unfortunately the narrative has already been written on this point, and the truth has lost out. It’s time to move on.

It’s only time to move on because there are bigger and more important issues that have come to light in the last few days. The IRS story keeps getting bigger and bigger every day. What were initially reports of a few low level employees in Cincinnati has now turned to higher level players in Washington. Conservative groups, Jewish groups and several others have come forward to state that they have been harassed by the IRS. Now even a liberal group,  ProPublica, has come forward saying that the IRS gave them unapproved applications which are not legally available until they have been approved for tax-exempt status. This is the story that has legs and which could potentially bring the most discredit to the Obama Administration.

Yes the facts must come out of Benghazi and they will in time but the IRS and possible the AP scandals are where the Republicans in Congress must center their efforts if they wish to win this war. The American people will forgive someone who was trying to mislead them but they are not willing to allow elected members of government to use their positions and the powers of their offices to torment their political opponents. Just ask Nixon.

Will it be this man that turns the Media against his boss?