Op-ed:
John Boehner...today’s Cowardly Lion
By: Diane Sori
‘Fast and Furious’ is now coming fast and furiously to a head. House Republicans, going against whiny crybaby John Boehner, have run out of patience with both Eric Holder’s arrogant attitude on the stand, and with Speaker Boehner’s stalling about bringing contempt charges. Representative Darrel Issa said yesterday that the House Oversight Committee will vote next Wednesday, June 20th, on a ‘contempt of Congress’ motion against Eric Holder "for his failure to produce documents" that were requested back in October 2011. Once passed it would then go to the floor of the House for a full vote.
Many in Congress feel that Issa has presented more than enough evidence to proceed against Holder. If indeed cited, Eric Holder would be only the second US Attorney General to be held in contempt of Congress by the Oversight Committee. Janet Reno was the first. In 1998 the Committee voted to cite Reno for contempt of Congress for not turning over documents during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. The full House never voted on the resolution and the documents were finally turned over.
Speaker Boehner has been stonewalling and trying to NOT bring charges by directly pleading with Obama to force Holder to turn over the thousands of pages of documents asked for, but Holder insists he’s met the requests asked of him by having already providing 7,600 pages of documents. However, those documents provided are only 10 percent of the documents Issa requested. Holder claims he cannot supply anymore documents, telling the Committee they will get nothing dated after February 4th of 2011, because the remaining documents pertain to ongoing open criminal investigations and thus cannot be turned over.
Yeah right, I sarcastically say.
But the bottom line in all this is that Representative Issa, the Committee, and ‘We the People’ all know that Eric Holder is withholding information...information that will probably implicate him and possibly Barack Hussein Obama in the gun walking scandal. And Holder has made it very clear to everyone that he won’t cooperate.
What amazes me is that Boehner needs to be coerced into bringing charges, especially since the Republicans are currently the majority in the House making chances good that Holder would be found in contempt. Even some Democrats in Congress have misgivings about Holder and his pattern of stonewalling in this investigation.
With Eric Holder’s circus performance on the stand and his manipulative abuse of the Attorney General’s office, it just might be impossible for Democrats to vote against the contempt charge once the resolution passes the Committee and goes to the full House. But Holder can still stop this from happening by simply turning over the subpoenaed documents, yet we all know he won’t.
Holder is a national disgrace as our nation’s ‘top cop’ yet Speaker Boehner whines that bringing contempt charges against this sitting Attorney General would take focus off the economy and that would be bad for Republicans in an election year. What I want to know is how that would be bad...it wouldn’t. In fact it would be another nail in the Democratic coffin across the board.
The Tim Man wanted a Heart, the Lion wanted Courage, and the Scarecrow wanted a Brain...what I want is for John Boehner to grow a spine and get the courage to do what he knows needs to be done, otherwise we don’t need or want him as our Republican Speaker of the House.
It really is that simple.
bravo,bravo
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