Sipsey Street Irregulars: Patterico: "Issa Eviscerates Holder on Gunrunner" "Eric Holder makes Janet Reno look competent." Did Hillary throw a lamp?

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Patterico: "Issa Eviscerates Holder on Gunrunner" "Eric Holder makes Janet Reno look competent." Did Hillary throw a lamp?

(Holder to self: "Oh, shit, how did I get into this? It seemed like a good idea at the time.")

ISSA: Mr. Attorney General, we have two Border Patrol agents who are dead, who were killed by guns that were allowed, as far as we can tell, to deliberately walk out of gun shops under the program often called Fast and Furious. This program, as you know — and the President’s been asked about it, you’ve been asked about it – allowed for weapons to be sold to straw purchasers, and ultimately, many of those weapons are today in the hands of drug cartels and other criminals. When did you first know about the program, officially, I believe, called Fast and Furious? To the best of your knowledge, what date?

HOLDER: I’m not sure of the exact date but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.

Patterico has some great analysis of the Holder-Issa Fight, Round One here and here.

ISSA: How about the head of the Criminal Division, Lanny Breuer. Did he authorize it?

HOLDER: I’m not sure whether Mr. Breuer authorized it. You have to understand the way in which the Department operates. Although there are operations, this one has become — has gotten a great deal of publicity.

ISSA: Yeah, there are dead Americans as a result of this failed and reckless program. So I would say that it hasn’t gotten enough attention, has it, Mr. Attorney General?

A commenter at the first link has this priceless observation: "Eric Holder makes Janet Reno look competent."

Patterico also provides a link to the video of Holder v. Issa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NqH88cSBqI

When Hillary saw Holder's testimony yesterday, I'm just SURE she threw a lamp. Had to have.

3 comments:

PalmettoDrew said...: "You have to understand the way in which the Department operates."

No shit, Mr. Holder. We do understand.

I predict that this quote will be the eqivalent of "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," or perhaps the famous inquiry of the definition of the word "is."; May 4, 2011 at 8:01 AM
Kurt '45superman' Hofmann said...: Holder:

I'm not sure about the exact date, but I probably heard about "Fast and Furious" for the first time over the last few weeks.

Hmm--that's odd, considering that Sen. Grassley sent him a letter specifically mentioning "Operation Fast and Furious" on Feb. 16--one day short of eleven weeks ago.

Grassley is right to remind Holder to look into the loyalty and capability of his staff--they don't seem to even be getting his mail to him.; May 4, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Anonymous said...: I have felt their pain.--Eric Holder (smirking)

OMG This is priceless. Next, he will be insisting he never screwed our southern neighbor, Mexico.

MALTHUS; May 4, 2011 at 9:23 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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