Making Sense of Obama's Bailout of Holder
The NRA is already pretty fired up about defeating Obama, it is their number #1 priority. From what I see and hear they see it as close to the most important thing they've ever done. They are already hard at work and this gambit from Obama to grant Eric Holder executive privilege over Fast & Furious is gasoline on the fire.
It is fairly clear to knowledgeable observers that the federal government was supplying weapons to Mexican drug cartels for one of two purposes, either to give one cartel an advantage over rival cartels or (possibly and) to exacerbate gun violence in an attempt to impose stricter gun control laws in the U.S. (It is this latter possibility which is more likely and precisely what has the NRA fired up - they see a second Obama term as a lock for aggressive regulatory gun control.) Until now, it has been Eric Holder taking the public beatings and twisting in the wind. Obama has had the opportunity for some time now to throw Holder under the bus to garner some good government bona fides. Not only did not cashier Holder, Obama, with this move, has adopted the controversy as his own. The Lightworker has bailed out Holder and taken on every liability for himself - the liability of a potentially deeply cynical ploy that has left murder and mayhem in its wake, the liability of government secretiveness, the liability of government ineptitude, etc. Why Obama would want to own all this is puzzling.
Now, Holder will face a contempt vote anyway, the documents will not be forthcoming giving a new set of fresh legs to the controversy for Obama's foes to pound him over, and Obama has attached his name to something that threatens to further his reputation as cynical, secretive and disdainful. The only calculus that justifies this move is that the documents are so incendiary that they must be shielded at all costs. Either that or Obama is just pretty stupid or doesn't care.
Beyond all that, does Obama think that these documents won't come out? These documents are now prized gold that a number of media outfits are now keen to find leaked to them. Might there be a Clintonite loyalist in the DOJ that just might leak these docs?
It is fairly clear to knowledgeable observers that the federal government was supplying weapons to Mexican drug cartels for one of two purposes, either to give one cartel an advantage over rival cartels or (possibly and) to exacerbate gun violence in an attempt to impose stricter gun control laws in the U.S. (It is this latter possibility which is more likely and precisely what has the NRA fired up - they see a second Obama term as a lock for aggressive regulatory gun control.) Until now, it has been Eric Holder taking the public beatings and twisting in the wind. Obama has had the opportunity for some time now to throw Holder under the bus to garner some good government bona fides. Not only did not cashier Holder, Obama, with this move, has adopted the controversy as his own. The Lightworker has bailed out Holder and taken on every liability for himself - the liability of a potentially deeply cynical ploy that has left murder and mayhem in its wake, the liability of government secretiveness, the liability of government ineptitude, etc. Why Obama would want to own all this is puzzling.
Now, Holder will face a contempt vote anyway, the documents will not be forthcoming giving a new set of fresh legs to the controversy for Obama's foes to pound him over, and Obama has attached his name to something that threatens to further his reputation as cynical, secretive and disdainful. The only calculus that justifies this move is that the documents are so incendiary that they must be shielded at all costs. Either that or Obama is just pretty stupid or doesn't care.
Beyond all that, does Obama think that these documents won't come out? These documents are now prized gold that a number of media outfits are now keen to find leaked to them. Might there be a Clintonite loyalist in the DOJ that just might leak these docs?
posted by Donny Baseball at 11:38 AM
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