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Will Holder stay or leave? — 18 Comments

  1. It’s certainly possible that Holder served as Obama’s hatchet man, cut-out, human shield. But that was when the buck could be seen stopping with Holder.
    Not the case today.

  2. Richard Aubrey: I still believe that Obama will only let Holder go if his hand is absolutely forced by circumstance. Holder is someone he completely trusts, IMHO. And there aren’t too many people like that for Obama. There’s really just his wife, Axelrod, and Jarrett, as far as I know.

  3. Since Holder has been the most visible civil rights/voting rights person and the one carrying the banner for Geneva convention issues that appeal to peaceniks, getting rid of Holder would cause some real splits in Obama’ base. Obama will try to wiggle around as much as he can so he doesn’t have to make a decision. Holder is Obama’s street creds.

  4. As a measure of Obama’s disinclination to throw Holder under the bus, consider that Obama pulled Executive Privilege out of the hat just before the House Committee voted on whether to hold Holder in contempt of Congress. This could be seen as an attempt to turn the contempt vote in Holder’s favor.

  5. I agree with this here post.

    If Hillary was causing this much trouble, she’d have been hung out to dry, then fed to the wolves, then whatever was left would have been tossed under the bus.

  6. Obama can always play the pardon card. Holder has nothing to worry about. Obama is shameless.

  7. I’m a fat little froggy
    with fat little thighs
    and a big fat belly
    from my throat to my thighs.

    I like to sit calmly
    viewing the scenery
    and slurp suddenly
    the lunch before me.

    I’m a fat little froggy
    with fatty fat thighs.
    My belly and my money
    float below the pond’s skies.

  8. Alternate ending:

    My belly and my money
    you see before you dies

    There’s also a good ending with the word disguise.

    Can anyone tell me why poetry that has absolutely no form, none, is called poetry.

    I call bullshit. Poetry is DNA, the coded instruction. How more formulated can DNA be? Hunh? Poetry without rules is like genetic instruction without rules: You get monsters and stillborn. Yech.

    Free verse is not poetry. It is musing and may be amusing but it is not poetry. I hate it. Let it go the way of the Commerce Clause and socialism and eubonics and eugenics and slavery and abortion and bring back the dodo because we all love the dodo.

  9. Maybe O trusts Holder. That means he knows Holder won’t do anything O considers unuseful. But that’s not the point.
    The point is that when the buck stopped with Holder, it didn’t get to O. Once Holder becomes, as he has, an involuntary conduit instead of a shield, his usefulness–which is not related to his perceived trustworthiness–is over.
    Question is, what can he be trusted to do or not do when he’s out on his ear.

  10. I don’t think this F&F affair seems very dangerous to Obama yet. The Dem base doesn’t care diddly about it and that’s what Obama’s campaign staff is trying to hold now. To throw Holder under the bus would mean that Obama would be admitting he made an error in appointing him and in keeping him. Obama can’t admit that kind of error.

  11. it must be very very lonely to be Obama. I suspect it is going to get lonlier.

  12. >>> Perhaps the proper word for the relationship might be “surrogate” or “mouthpiece.”

    I believe the ACTUAL term you’re seeking here is “two-bit shill”.

  13. Holder puts me in mind of Humphrey Bogart’s in-character observation about Peter Lorre’s character in Casablanca:

    “I don’t mind a parasite, but I DO object to a cut-rate one.”

    Holder is a tool, and he’s a great mirror for President Downgrade for the simple reason that he’s just as big a piece of cheap, perambulatory scum as The Wun is.

  14. >>> it must be very very lonely to be Obama. I suspect it is going to get lonlier.

    He can always rely on the companionship of his closest friend, the bus driver.

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