Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, right, and House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
BALTIMORE, Md. — During a House GOP retreat in Baltimore on Friday, press secretaries for Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor balked when asked if their bosses believe Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation Fast and Furious.
Sixty-three congressmen, two senators, two sitting governors and every major Republican presidential candidate have demanded Holder’s ouster over the resulting scandal. And 89 congressmen have signed a House resolution of “no confidence” in Holder as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Between the two lists, which don’t perfectly overlap, 101 members of the House have “no confidence” in Holder, believe he should resign or both.
Though that number — 101 Congressmen — is nearly half of the 242-member Republican caucus in the House, and the surge continues to grow, the press secretaries for Boehner and Cantor refused to answer the question.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel has ignored emails on the subject for months, but when TheDC caught up with him at the retreat and again asked if his boss thinks Holder should resign for the gunrunning operation that killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and at least 300 Mexican civilians, Steel replied, “I don’t think he has said anything on that.”
TheDC followed up with Steel in the lobby of the Waterfront Marriott and asked him if he’d just ask Boehner the question. “Yeah, maybe,” Steel replied.
As of 5 p.m. on Sunday, Steel still hasn’t answered whether Boehner agrees with the 101 members in the House GOP caucus about Holder. Instead, Steel said, “The speaker appreciates the hard work that Chairman Issa and many others have done to expose this scandal. President Obama’s Department of Justice needs to be accountable.”
Cantor’s press secretary, Laena Fallon, deflected questions in a similar way, telling TheDC that Cantor “doesn’t sign onto legislation, as a rule, as majority leader”
Fallon was referencing House Resolution 490, the bill that expresses “no confidence” in Holder because of Fast and Furious. When asked if Cantor agreed “with the concept,” Fallon replied, “I don’t know.”
TheDC: Can you ask him for me?
FALLON: I’ll see, he’s in meetings.
TheDC: I can take an answer whenever. It’s just a “yes” or “no.”
FALLON: I’ll ask and see if I can get you something, but I don’t know what he’ll say.”
By Sunday at 5 p.m., Fallon has still not responded.
Fast and Furious was a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, overseen by Holder’s DOJ. It sent thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers — people who legally purchased guns in the United States with the known intention of illegally trafficking them somewhere else.
At least 300 people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as was Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. The identities of the Mexican victims are unknown. Allegations have surfaced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata was also killed with Fast and Furious weapons.
On the heels of victory against the racist “La Raza” ethnic studies program in Tucson, Arizona, this shocking item from San Diego shows how far we have yet to go to Defund La Raza and its divisive, anti-American influence in America.
At a time of record debt, rampant unemployment, and a financially strained citizenry – our Federal government somehow can afford a whopping $1,600,000 to restore “Chicano” murals depicting communist butchers Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, and with maps featuring “Aztlan” – the mythical “nation” that La Raza activists demand be taken from the United States to create a new ethnically-pure proto-Mexican state.
The funds are being provided by the Department of Transportation and is called a “federal transportation enhancement” (as if there are no unsafe bridges across America that could use the funds!)
The murals begun as Mexican nationalist graffiti in the 1970s. The graffiti was first painted on highway underpasses in an attempt to stop the construction of a California Highway Patrol office there. Activists proclaimed the area a “Chicano park” and appeasing leaders – fearing violence – “negotiated” with activists to keep the murals and cancel the police station.
The Federal money will pay to restore 18 panels. 9 have been restored so far. Funding was first approved in a Congressional earmark in 2002, but was (wisely) held up by the Bush DOT because of the frequent mention of the racist “Aztlan”. But with Obama and his La Raza sidekicks Hilda Solis and Cecilia Muñoz in power – and Latino votes to be bought – the funding is now going ahead full steam.
Here are some selections:
Above: One panel depicting the mythical “Aztlan”, carving up nearly half of America into land that Chicano activists claim was “stolen” from Mexico. Also a lovely image of naked, armed woman and some creepy ‘baby’ with severed arm holding a machete.
Above: the first of several appearances of Communist murderer Che Guevara – darling of the left – who conducted more than 500 show trials and executions in Castro’s Cuba.
Above: Yet another appearance by Guevara, along with Castro (far right), and a flag declaring “The Race…YES, Border Patrol….NO” – oddly depicting Cesar Chavez’ United Farm Workers flag above it – despite the inconvenient truth that Chavez himself was strongly opposed to illegal immigrationand amnesty.
Your tax dollars at work promoting ethnic separatism and Communist icons in the good old U.S.A.
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For those who think Cain is guilty and ask, “Well where was this guy three weeks ago? This seems fishy”
I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT!
It didn’t seem fishy to you that those women all of a sudden popped up many years later. You just took them at their word.
I don’t know why this guy waited until now.
All I can say is this. He’s either a phony, or He’s probably just now getting up the nerve to have his life torn apart by the left wing for daring to defend Cain.
But the left wing media may not have to, because the establishment republicans will be dismissive of this, and the left wing media will just enjoy watching the establishment republicans snub Herman Cain.
Oh, and I’ll remind those who keep asking about Cain’s support going to Gingrich.
You’ve enjoyed seeing the left wing bring a man down, over ALLEGATIONS in hopes of your candidate.
Whereas Gingrich has PROVEN indiscretions. Yet you can over look those.
You don’t see the big picture. YOU LET THE LEFT WING WIN, AGAIN!
You let the left wing control what people think of conservatives. AGAIN!
Too many Americans think republicans are, racists, sexists, and homophobes, when democrats are the real perpetrators.
Why? Because you’ve let them accuse you, and you’ve stood there and look stupefied as the left FALSELY accuses us with the things they’re guilty of.
You’d think you’d be a little more sympathetic when Cain looks stupefied when he’s accused of something that could end his more than forty year marriage to Gloria.
I see these establishment republicans roll over like a sick dog and drool while the democrats lay the blame of a failing economy on Republicans when it’s as obvious as Rosie O’donnell standin’ butt naked in the middle of the street that it was the democrats.
But Herman Cain is an idiot because His answer to foreign policy is, “Energy Independence”?
What more does he really need to say?
Yeah. I’d pause too!
Because I’d be like, “Oh yeah. I forgot. I gotta give a long winded answer so I can appear informed and smart n’ stuff, instead of being practical.
I say again. We live in the times where people value politicians who appear informed, over those who demonstrate practicality, and who are tested and successful in the risk taking world.
We live in times where people shout that they are fed up with politicians, and then destroy those who step up to remedy that.
America gets the government it deserves.
And the only ones who say Cain is done. Are the ones who never wanted him to win.
“Public-Private Partnership” is statism, is crony capitalism, is in today’s world, most often global Marxofascism.
Think of that when you see the triple-P phrase. Also: “smart growth,” or “sustainable development,” or “triple bottom-line finance,” or just “green.”
We will copy our prior post and add this, which covers more ground, including the very, very dirty Baron Buffett.
Hear the entire interview and be sure to go through the book as you recruit candidates in the GOP (and perhaps even Democratic) primaries, to oppose nearly each and every member of Congress in the 2012 election.
And it is very much time for independent and third party candidates for Congress to arise.
Rehearsing the Script in the Oval Office, White House photo
Copy of original post (Tuesday, Nov. 29, 10:28am)
“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
- Jesus the Messiah (Luke 16:13)
Governor Palin referred to his work in her recent Wall Street Journal column, featured here.
Two brief interviews tell part of the story of this endemic corruption in Washington (and in state capitals throughout America).
The facts exposed in this book explain much of the tycoon transnationalist capture of the GOP, as well as DNC debauchery. The bigger and more multinational that corporations are, the more ungoverned they are – and the closer they tend to be in their aims and their complicity, to globalist, central bank financiers and all the authoritarian tyranny in the cauldron they fuel.
To the wolf: My, what big investment opportunities you have, grandma…
Nov 29, 2011- 5:04 - Former Rep. Tom Tancredo on the importance of border security and how the candidates will approach the issue.
BASHIR: STOP GINGRICH’S FOOD STAMP RHETORIC BEFORE SOMEONE GETS KILLED
MSNBC host Martin Bashir rarely misses an opportunity to dramatize and string-together current Republican happenings with obscure incidents from the past. Example. On Friday Bashir made the arguably far-fetched comparison linking the murder of a black British teenager in 1993 to Newt Gingrich calling President Obama “the most effective food stamp president in American history.”
Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo discusses the extent of the investigation into the Department of Justice.
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