BASHING ERIC HOLDER AND OTHERS HAS BEEN JUST ANOTHER WAY TO
GET AT PRESIDENT OBAMA. AND AGAIN, IT
SEEMS TO BE BACKFIRING
No Holds
Barred: Darrell Issa's committee has disgraced itself in its
treatment of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
As
events have unfolded in the Eric Holder contempt saga, there's one
thing that's become painfully obvious:
Clarence Thomas never really had a clue as to what it's like being the target
of a "high-tech lynching."
As President Barack
Obama , Van
Jones , Shirley
Sherrod , Valerie
Jarrett , or Sonya
Sotomayor might privately attest, there's been a long and dreadful hunting
expedition undertaken by a seething, boisterous claque of hate-filled anti-Obama
ideologues who are simply unwilling to accept the outcome of the 2008 Presidential
election. And like the President and the
rest of them, Holder has been among these anti-Obama partisans' designated prey.
But the public spotlight that's
been cast upon the harsh going-over the Attorney General has received from
Darrell Issa and company presents a perhaps deeper, more revealing indication of
the bitterness which lurks within the contempt some hold for this President.
It's become Issa's turn to inculcate
life into one of the many outlandish wolf tickets sold by Obama's GOP opponents;
that of the need for " hundreds
of hearings " into the goings on within the administration. Judging by his treatment of Holder, Issa seems
to pursue his perceived mandate based on an underlying principle: for this particular President, there are no
rights or privileges -- including executive privilege -- in which they are bound
to respect.
For those to whom Issa pandering
is directed -- Tea Party congressional Republicans and their constituents --
deleting the legitimacy of this
presidency from the historical record is the ultimate goal to be pursued one
small step at a time. Indeed it's a breathtaking example of political chutzpah. After all, it comes from a party that offers
fawning tributes to the concept of democracy and American "exceptionalism" even
though its last presidency was secured -- at least initially -- via a selection
process that any democracy-lover would view as perverted; by judicial fiat .
But another part of this
disdain stems from their unyielding certainty that the "socialist,"
Constitution-loathing Obama Administration is hell-bent on stripping away their
rights, including perhaps their most sacred, the right to own guns.
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