Eric Holder: Less Cool Under Fire than William Hung, More Tongue-Tied Than Fonzie.
I have to think that some minor flunky in the Obama Administration tasked with making sure Eric Holder didn’t get loose in front of television cameras will be sitting in the unemployment line on Monday. That poor unfortunate’s goose was cooked when Holder sat down in front of a House committee and tried to answer a few simple questions.
Okay, perhaps “tried” is too strong a word. Holder went before the committee and flailed around like a roller-skating giraffe on a frozen duck pond. He made William Hung look like a master of stagecraft.
His first moment of stunning incompetence came thanks to Rep. Ted Poe of Texas. Holder had been very critical of the Arizona immigration law and Poe decided to find out just how much our Attorney General knew about the law. Hilarity (or horror, if you like your Attorney’s General to have just a smidge of basic competence) ensued.
Great. So not only did he not read the ten-page law, but he shifted all the blame to his crack review team, who haven’t managed to get a briefing to him on the law even though it made national news three weeks ago. Hey, dn’t blame Holder for his utter lack of intellectual curiosity. It’s just par for the course in this administration.
But Eric the Red (Faced) wasn’t quite done giving himself a wedgie. Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican on the committee, had a few questions for him about the recent spate of terrorist attacks attempted by impish little rapscallions like Faisal Shahzad. Smith’s main question was pretty simple: was “radical Islam” a possible reason for these attacks? Shouldn’t be tough to answer, right? We out here in Bitter Clinger Land already know that all three attackers had direct ties to the Islamist hate-preacher Anwar al-Awlaki. So, how did the top law-enforcement official in the nation handle the question? Was he forthright and honest with information we already knew?
Oh, heck no. This is Eric Holder we’re talking about. He was as reluctant to say “radical Islam” as Fonzie was to say “I was wrong”.
That’s only a hard question is you’re more concerned with being a smarmy politician than you are a competent law enforcement officer or national security administrator. We didn’t hire Holder to do the “let’s not insult some random Muslim” two-step. We hired him to uphold the law, investigate violations thoroughly, and make darned sure some whack-job Muslim isn’t trying to kill a few dozen or hundred of us. So far, Holder is a miserable failure and while I’ve had a few good laughs at his expense, his incompetent is not in the least bit funny. If our President had an ounce of regard for the American people, he’d fire that buffoon tonight and get someone in there who could do the job.
Yeah, right. Why do that when he’s busy playing the live-action role-playing version of 1984?
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- Eric Holder’s Very Bad, Posterized Day
- GOP Senators Again Demonstrate Why They’re in the Minority
- Gosh, Eric Holder’s America Reminds Me of Someplace…
Category: Fighting the Islamists, The Long War Here At Home
Any time the name Eric holder rears its ugly head it follows there are going to be ugly (Fannie Mae), discreditable (Marc Rich pardon), sleazy (Illinois Gaming Commission packing scheme)things happening as surely as the night the day.
Holder really does have a trail of slime behind him, doesn't he?
I'll cut Holder some slack on the terrorist question, as you don't want to talk openly too much about upcoming prosecutions.
The Arizona law however…