GOP Rep. Issues Ultimatum to AG Holder: Step Up or Step Down
- Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:41pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The Republican’s top House investigator has a suggestion for Attorney General Eric Holder: Step it up or step down.
California Rep. Darrell Issa said Holder is hurting the Obama administration because the Justice Department isn’t doing more to investigate several issues.
Issa – who’s set to lead the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee – said the department hasn’t done enough concerning the activities of the now-defunct community group ACORN, as well as a 2008 incident of alleged voter intimidation in Philadelphia involving the New Black Panther Party and those behind the WikiLeaks releases.
Issa told “Fox News Sunday” that Holder should either stop hurting the administration or leave it.
“He isn’t doing enough,” Issa said. “He’s hurting this administration. If you’re hurting the administration, either stop hurting the administration or leave.”
This story has been updated with a quote from Issa.
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Comments (78)
RealityCheck
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:16pm“Hurting the administration” big deal, how about we focus on rock solid fact and reality and forget the administration, how about “do your job or your fired?”. “Not doing enough” and “hurting the administration” is way too broad and people should be doing their job, kinda like how your supposed to read and understand a bill before voting on it if your job is in Congress.
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:14pmScrew Upton, the Republicans already have one strike against them for tapping him in. I even think they should have two strikes against them for not putting Ron Paul in charge of the Federal Reserve Investigations.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:10pmrun holder out of DC on a rail. get him OUT of power before he helps complete the obama agenda.
Report Post »justice
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:05pmSend him to Gitmo, live with the Terrorist for a while!
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:04pmI would bet anything that Holder/mimions are busily trying to get dirt on Issa. This is how they roll. They have the OK to do whatever they need to do to protect themselves, bo, his peeps, and black people.. and the OK actually a mandate to investigate and prosecute as many white people as possible. If you speak out against BO or SD.. you will be investigated by AG and audited by the IRS.. this is the Chicago way… ask Joe the plumber. It will be real nice to see all this corruption exposed. I have high hopes but bucking a mob that was able to get a fraud into the WH will not be easy.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:52pmHe should investigate the coward in the mirror!
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:49pmI hope the Republicans will also seriously investigate the Midwest Academy http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6725 and all the funds that contribute to it and other organizations like it.
Report Post »They should also investigate how George Soros launders his money into the political machine thereby controlling important outcomes in American elections all over the nation.
If they don’t investigate, expose, and stop this, nothing else they do will account for enough to stop the slide into socialism for America.
markamerica
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:45pmI agree: DOJ needs an institutional overhaul, starting with firing everybody above the rank of file clerk. Unfortunately, until you get a new President, that isn’t happening, and if you get a RINO, it won’t be done either.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:34pmIt’s not just Holder. While Holder is the slacker that brought the whole problem to a head, there are many more in the institution who need to be investigated. The DOJ has been systematically dismantled over the last three decades and needs to be rebuilt.
Report Post »TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:25pmTime will tell.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:29pmI hope we still have time.
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:19pmHolder is one of the most racist biggots in the goverment. How does he keep his job. The only good thing that could possibly come from obama keeping this guy is more and more people are going to be outraged . Maybe enogh to vote obama out. The same with palatono, all she gets done is flapping her jowels. She doesnt have enoug since to make any recomendations on mexican border so why is she in Afganistan dealing , or trying to give I guess professioal advice. Wonder why they got her out of town? Any way they need professionals those borders, someone that knows the region. Get rid of holder and polatono.
Report Post »Deanna in Missouri
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:50pmShe is homeland security right? What is she doing in Afghanistan? And she was there talking to them about their borders. What the hell about our borders? Oh I forgot she is for the invasion, even though she is from Arizona..go figure..doesn’t make any sense. What could possibly be so good as to let you help ruin the country?
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:18pmWhether or not he is hurting the Obama administration should have absolutely nothing to do with it. What matters is that he is not enforcing the law. That is his job and he is not doing for what appears to be political or ideological reasons, not legal. He is a disgrace and a disaster.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:16pmI cheered out loud when I watched this. Scared the dog though, sorry sluggo.
Report Post »Are we really returning to reason?
338lapua
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:15pmRep Issa has a full plate. So much corruption, so little time. Help me prioritize the order, main criterion would be which investigation involves the most (quantatatively) high ranking ,high value targets. ex; connect Sebelius,big sis, the clapperand whoever else into one investigation. Effectively ending continuous damage so the rest of the house can come up with a jobs bill….a real one!
Report Post »Come up with your best combo!
canuck44
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 6:58amThis all has to be done in conjunction with allocation or restriction of funding.
Priority Number one is to defund the EPA, stop the imposition of regulations that hurt the economy and restrict funds to interfere in any state…Texas, Arizona, etc.
Number 2: Defund and investigate the ObamaCare mess starting at the current mandates that kicked in yesterday.
Number 3: Investigate DOJ and ban the use of dollars to sue the States on Immigration or other matters specifically not conferred in the Constitution.
Number 4: Defund and investigate the FCC specifically banning the use of any federal dollars on the internet.
Number 5: Defund NPR, PBS and the NEA…no investigation necessary just dump them.
Report Post »FANGS
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:15pmSeize all bank accounts and property of the entire111th congress.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:10pmNo this looks simuliar to the last
Report Post »two years
http://www.johndclare.net/Nazi_Germany1.htm
Curator_JDR
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:07pmYep. Step down, Stedman.
Report Post »NEW: animated feature that exposes the insanity of the Progressives with big time humor. http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
MJ1025
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:05pmhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/nov/29/choosing-upton-energy-and-commerce-loser-gop/
I do not trust this Upton guy.
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:39pmThe only reason Upton can call himself a Republican is that he is from Michigan. Among many other stellar accomplishments, he is the primary pusher of the Federal Regs that mandate the worthless curlyque light bulbs. I only cite that, not because it’s the worst of his damage, but because those bulbs just tee me off for some reason. Pay 3.5 times more per bulb, get less and inferior quality light, and by the way you need a Haz Mat team to clean up if you every break one. Only in the government would this mook be anything more than the hall monitor.
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:34am@Cykonas
Report Post »I hate the bulbs also. I bought some and one burned out in less than six weeks. They’re supposed to last five years. The light bulb plant in Winchester, VA, just closed. Sad. And, like you say, the clean up and disposal of these new lights will pose a serious problem for “green” earth. We have lost all common sense in this country, and those in power are destroying us step by step.
DRB
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:01pmLMAO
Ignorance is bliss!
Report Post »Banter
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:56pmHolder surely missed his class on “justice is blind”,and all ethics classes. This guy needs to be gone.
Report Post »Bigbird1960
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:56pmQ: Why was Obama so disappointed when he went to a screening of The Men Who Stare at Goats?
A: Being a Muslim, he thought there would be more romance.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:55pmGo peddle your crap somewhere else, like MSNBC.
Report Post »2dollarbill
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:55pmAre you kidding? Obama will probably give him a raise…with OUR tax dollars!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:34pmOr sign an executive order protecting his office from investigation and sealing his records. Certainly he is well versed in having records sealed.
Report Post »doncarr61
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:48pmThe AG should be investigated for the Black Panther issue and the biased manner in which laws are enforced. That would be a great start.
DagneyT
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:54pmLet the oversight begin!
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:02pmIt‘s about time somebody stood in somebody’s face in this regime!
They treat American citizens like terrorists and the terrorists like American citizens.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:03pmI would love to get more of this racist goon on the record. Bring on the hearings!
Report Post »oldchevyguy
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:14pmAbsolutely!
Report Post »ilovetheusa1
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:47pmhe has done a great job protecting Muslims rights, what more do you want from him.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:05pmThe colorbind protection of all our rights.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 9:12pmThe New Black Panthers are muslim.. That’s the real reason they were aided and abetted by Obama..
Report Post »missionarydad
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 9:59pmExactly you nailed it he is doing everything Obama would want him to do. He is just like his boss voting present.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 11:21pmHolder will prosecute anybody……unless they are Communists, Socialists, Union reps, friends of Obama, radicals, crimminals, terrorists, Muslims, or members of Congress.
UPSETVET
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 4:23amHolder is too busy protecting his sovereign, President Obama, to take care of business, epecially if it has anything to do with investigating racial cases ( Acorn-Black Panthers ) that should have had priority treatment years ago. Black President, Black Attorney General, can we expect anything else ?
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:43amI’m starting to like Darrell Issa, I got a feeling he’s gonna be a thorn in the progressives side!!! Hey Mr. Issa, here’s one for ya; AUDIT THE FED AND ALL OF IT’S EMPLOYEES!!!!! SOON! We will be waiting. Could be very interesting what they find.
Report Post »JKN
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:03amAh yes… AG Eric Holder’s too busy defending Muslim terrorists and slamming down Americans – Arizona Immigration law, anyone?
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