Tuesday, June 19, 2012

- The Politics Of Contempt

I guess an election year is the worst time to be a politicized stonewalling hack. The WSJ has a very interesting piece on Eric Holder and his options now that the house is ready to vote him 'in contempt".

I saw his statement about his offered 'accommodation' and I didn't believe him. It looked to me like a more complicated stall. It could be that the the house is asking for 80,000 documents so he goes in and offers then 40. Then the negotiations begin, and stretch as far into the future as Holder can manage.

Or he could be planning some other nonsense as a delaying tactic - he goes in there with Photoshopped pictures of John Boehner in his wife's clothing, or of Daryl Issa's body painted gold like Mercury, and wearing Mardi Gras beads. Who knows.

But he did not seem to me like a guy who planned to finally cooperate with the legal authority. He looked to me like a man who planned to fight on whatever the cost, assuming his enemies are all imbeciles. (I'm quite sure he thinks they're actually all "racist" imbeciles.)

If the WSJ piece is correct, and I think it is, then his far left goose is cooked. Either he hands over the emails where he's complaining about the "turbulent priest", or he gets tossed out on his ear, and maybe ends up in jail. In other words, from here it looks like god is in his heaven and all is right with the world.

1 comment:

ikaika said...

No wiggle room with those three choices and ultimately it rises to his boss.