An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Contempt? Contemptable!
A House panel voted Wednesday in favor of holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a move that inflamed partisan rancor on Capitol Hill and sets up the possibility of legal action against the attorney general himself.
Holder has not yet been formally held in contempt of Congress. The full House would still need to approve the resolution in order for that to happen — Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., afterward told Fox News that such a floor vote can still be avoided.
But the 23-17 party-line vote on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee marked a significant turn in lawmakers’ 16-month investigation into the botched anti-gunrunning operation Fast and Furious. With the vote, Republicans on the committee signaled they had exhausted all other means to extract sought-after documents from the Justice Department — though Democrats had insisted there was still an opportunity to sort out the mess without a contempt vote.
“We and the American people need answers sooner, not later,” said Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the committee.
The fact that this vote was along party lines is extremely disturbing. I guess the Democrats don’t care that a man, a Border Agent, an American citizen, an officer of the law, was murdered. Have they sucked up so much of the liberal bullshit, that they aren’t even concerned with the lives of American agents? Is that the problem? Because, if it is, then things are MUCH worse than I thought.
RE: your headline
Spelling contempt as coMtempt is contemptable.
Well crap! You’d think I’d notice that! I was pretty pissed, and sometimes, the fingers don’t work in conjunction with the brain. sigh…
Give em Hell even if you can’t spell!
“sometimes, the fingers don’t work in conjunction with the brain”
I am prone to have that problem with my mouth.