Obomination: The Man Obama Picked To Be at the Helm of Justice
As news started to break about Fast
and Furious, Obama said of Attorney
General Eric Holder, "I have complete confidence in him." Obama may now be the only one who does. As we learn more about Holder’s role in the
Department of Justice in matters such as voting rights, politicized hiring as
well as Fast and Furious, concerned members of Congress as well as presidential
candidates are concerned that the man Obama picked to be at the helm of the
Justice Department is unfit.
This week, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) proposed
a resolution declaring “that it is the sense of the
House of Representatives that Congress has lost confidence in the Attorney
General of the United States.” The tally
of members of the House of Representatives calling
for the resignation of the current Attorney General is now at 65.
On Tuesday, Louisiana Representative John Fleming said, “The
nation’s chief law enforcement officer has created a highly politicized
atmosphere at the Department of Justice, and the time has come for him to resign
or be fired.”
On Thursday, two candidates for president agreed with
Fleming. Texas Gov. Rick Perry said, "If
I'm the president of the United States and I find out there is an operation
like Fast and Furious, and I found out my attorney general didn't know about
it, I would have him resign immediately." Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum also would
have fired the Attorney General in such circumstances, saying, "This
is something he should've been aware of, something that shouldn't have started
in the first place."
Operation Fast and Furious is a program where the U.S. tried
unsuccessfully to track guns as they were passed to elite drug traffickers in
Mexico by selling thousands of guns to Mexican drug dealers. These guns have surfaced in a number of crime
scenes.
And it’s not only Republicans that are losing confidence in the
Attorney General. Illinois Democratic
Rep. Luis Gutierrez said that if
Holder knew of Fast and Furious, he “should leave.”