| Remember a few months ago when Tim Walberg vaulted his way into the top three of the Most Odious Political Figure rankings by insinuating that a gun running operation gone wrong was really a stalking horse by Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a bonechilling assault on everyone's "right" to bear arms? Right, Lil' Fella, the man who would be Ron Paul's love child, votes to hold Eric Holder in contempt over it. Washington, D.C. – Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, voted to approve contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder over his stonewalling of the Committee’s “Fast and Furious” investigation. The Committee approved the contempt charges with a 23-17 vote this afternoon.
Just so we're on the same page about this, this is the one investigation of the hundreds promised by Darrell Issa to gain legs. It's like the fishing expedition conducted by Newt Gingrich's House into Bill Clinton that eventually turned up an Oval Office blow job and that cost millions of dollars, some of the credibility of the Secret Service, and diverted law enforcement resources away from other things ... like hunting Osama bin Laden's terrorist ring. It's also an operation that predated the Obama administration, and an investigation that has prompted Holder to already turn over thousands of pages of documents to support. It's also an investigation that is widely seen on Capitol Hill to be such an overreach that past Justice Departments have said that rules were specifically written up to prevent its intrusion into law enforcement strategies and tactics, and that has prompted Republican leadership to try to quietly quash even as Issa has soaked up lots of free publicity on national Tee Vee. This is what the "principled Libertarian" Amash has signed on to support ... a baseless witch hunt intended to give Darrell Issa time in the spotlight that he undoubtedly would like to parlay into Gingrich levels of Republican acclaim by doing what the rest of the GOP leadership doesn't want to do, which is impeach a sitting president (again) for no real reason. Update! ... Unsurprisingly, Tim Walberg votes in favor, also. Unsurprisingly, the Jackson Citizen Patriot article that mentions this doesn't mention that Walberg had in February spoken out on this issue in saying that he believed that this was the Obama administration's moment to start confiscating firearms from regular people. After all, mentioning that one person buys into an utterly batshit crazy conspiracy theory without mentioning some trivial crime of logic committed by someone on the "other side" is a violation of modern rules of fairness and balance. |
