Probably no posts today, unless I need to to take a break or Eric Holder resigns.
Go do some Christmas shopping. . . Buy some more ammo for your two-year old. (A better investment you're unlikely to encounter at this juncture of history.) Spend some time with your family or your God. . . It's Christmas for Pete's sake.
David Codrea has a link here along with a suggestion as to how "Gun owners should tell White House what they would do with $40."
I linked to the White House through David's site and wrote 'em:
Forty dollars that I could give the Brian Terry family to sue Eric Holder's ass off for wrongful death in the Fast & Furious scandal. And yeah, I'm serious. What is more serious than wrongful death at the hands of you stinking socialists?
Statement from Alan D. Bersin, Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionEarlier today, I notified the President of my intent to resign as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection effective Dec. 30. I have expressed my deep gratitude and appreciation to President Obama and Secretary Napolitano for the opportunity to have led such an exceptional organization and for the confidence they have shown in me.My service as Commissioner has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my public life. I am immensely proud of the significant and meaningful achievements we have made on our borders and at our nation’s ports of entry over nearly two years. Through innovative solutions and strengthened partnerships, we have measurably strengthened border security, enhanced our ability to prevent potential terror threats, streamlined the entry process for lawful trade, and expanded our trusted traveler programs.These extraordinary accomplishments are the result of the unstinting dedication, professionalism and sacrifice of the men and women of CBP. It has been my honor to serve with them and I depart with full confidence that they will continue to secure our borders and foster the lawful exchange of people and goods with vigilance, service and integrity.
Well, I'm sure that has nothing to do with Joltin' Joe Lieberman's new investigation into inter-agency miscommunication in Fast and Furious. Naw. Musta been one of them killer rabbits
I met the Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle when I went to DC for the 8 December hearing. He's young, 24, driven and very smart. He was the guy whose stories on the increasing cascade of congressional calls for resignation provoked Eric Holder into his paranoid episode.
“You guys need to — you need to stop this. It’s not an organic thing that’s just happening. You guys are behind it.”
Matthew was as proud as a frog eating fire that Darrell Issa used that now semi-iconic photo and quote as a backdrop for the 8 December opening questioning.
Well, if Holder didn't like that, he's sure not going to like this troika of Boyle stories today. This is what I was hinting at earlier in my post about the possible opening of a Second Front in the Gunwalker investigation. The Second Front is here.
First, comes this lovely line from Congressman Jason Chaffetz: “The Attorney General is always involved in very serious matters . . . It’s the nature of the job. If he can’t handle it and thinks it’s somehow based on something other than his performance, maybe it is time for him to get another job.”
Next, young Matthew brings us this: "RNC chairman promises to make Fast and Furious a 2012 election theme."Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus reiterated his call for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation on Wednesday, and promised Operation Fast and Furious will be an election issue in 2012. “Holder may want to point fingers and play the blame game, but as the Attorney General, he bears the responsibility,” Priebus told The Daily Caller. “It’s past time for the attorney general to come clean and take responsibility and if he doesn’t, he has a boss who should.” “Obama’s leadership deficit in holding the members of his administration accountable demonstrates yet again that the president is taking Washington in the wrong direction and only making things worse,” said Preibus. “If Obama won’t fire Holder, we will,” Priebus added. “We’ll fire the whole team in just 11 months.”
Ah, yes, the stone albatross of a dope-on-a-rope. Of course the Obamanoids knew that that was part of the equation when they backed Holder and embraced him, hair on fire and all. But this next story. . . this makes it even worse.
"Lieberman directs staff to investigate Fast and Furious coordination."
Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman has directed the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which he chairs, to investigate miscommunication between law enforcement agencies related to the Justice Department’s Operation Fast and Furious.A spokesperson told The Daily Caller Wednesday that Lieberman “believe[s] that the lack of interagency coordination along the border merits further examination, and as Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he has directed his staff to follow up with the relevant federal agencies on that topic.”
OOOOOH. "Interagency coordination." Watch out Bobby, Janet and Hillary. Yer underwear is showing.
Worse for the Gunwalker Conspirators is that with the addition of Joe Lieberman to the sleuthing team, this has suddenly become a bi-partisan "witch hunt."
The Second Front has arrived, with hearings promised for the rest of the Obama presidency, however long that may be.
If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had possessed a Mauser rifle, twenty rounds AND THE WILL TO USE IT, Adolf Hitler would have been an obscure footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic. -- Aaron Zelman.
The founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Aaron Zelman, died a year ago and is sorely missed by all who knew him.
Although I missed it at the time, here is L. Neil Smith's remembrance of a good, gentle and great soul.
Man shoots at mouse, hits roommate; another roommate arrested for rape.
Now, justice would have been if the projectile had hit and killed the rapist.
NOTE: I almost titled this one "Adventures amongst the white trash tribe," but I didn't want to appear racist. ;-)
Word has it that there are going to be some big political-side stories breaking in the Gunwalker Scandal in the next day or so. Will this constitute the long-awaited "Second Front?" Could be, gentle readers. Could be.
Well, well, discovery in this case should prove interesting.
A reputed Mexican drug cartel leader was charged in the ambush slaying this year of a U.S. immigration officer in Mexico — a killing that set off a massive search for the assailants on both sides of the border.Julian Zapata Espinoza, an alleged chief with the Zetas cartel, pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance Wednesday in the killing of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata on Feb. 15. He and another agent, who was wounded, were ambushed in their car by a convoy of vehicles in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi. . .According to an internal report by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, three firearms with obliterated serial numbers were recovered by Mexican authorities after the shooting. The serial numbers were raised by U.S. agents, and the firearms were subsequently traced.One of the weapons was "traced directly" to Otilio Osorio Jr. of Lancaster, Texas. Ballistics testing further confirmed the weapon "was used in the murder" of Zapata, the ATF report said. It had been illegally purchased at a gun store in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Osorio, 22, pleaded guilty in October to three counts of weapons violations.Lawmakers in Washington who are investigating the ATF's bungled Fast and Furious operation, which attempted to track illegally purchased guns on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, have contended that Osorio was known to the ATF as an illegal purchaser. But, they said, the ATF failed for three months to file reports on his activities, and did not do so until Feb. 25, the same day the ATF traced the Zapata murder weapon back to Osorio.
