Attorney General Eric Holder Resigns

[Spindrift]

Well, Holder did his main job. Slow-walk and stall any proscectuion of Wall Street fraudsters long enough for them to be protected by the statute of limitations of their respective crimes.

I bet 1 internet that within six months he will be pulling down a $300k+ job with a major Wall Street firm, or by a lawfirm with a significant Wall Street client list.

Any takers?

$300K? Are you kidding? That's chump change. And why should he be any different than a lot of previous AGs?

 

[Cleon]

Well, Holder did his main job. Slow-walk and stall any proscectuion of Wall Street fraudsters long enough for them to be protected by the statute of limitations of their respective crimes.

I bet 1 internet that within six months he will be pulling down a $300k+ job with a major Wall Street firm, or by a lawfirm with a significant Wall Street client list.

Any takers?

For the work he's done? No way in hell he'll only be pulling in $300K.

 

[Myron Proudfoot]

Interesting. Your article was written by Hans von Spakovsky (for Fox News). Who is von Spakovsky? He was a Bush appointee to the Federal Election Commission; Bush used a "recess appointment" to put him on the Commission. At his confirmation hearing Senate Democrats charged that von Spakovsky was unacceptably partisan and, citing his tenure at DoJ, would use his position to disenfranchise low-income and minority voters.

Hans von Spakovsky has spent his career trying to deny people the right to vote. Generally he targets African-American voters. During the 2000 election he was one of Bush's lawyers and was one of the team that made sure 28,000 votes, cast mostly by African-Americans, were not counted. During WWII his father fought for neo-Nazi Yugoslavs against the Allies. Nice role model.

 

[eeyore1954]

$300K? Are you kidding? That's chump change. And why should he be any different than a lot of previous AGs?

Beat me to it. In his case 7 figures is more like it. And why should he be unlike a lot of previous AG's, cabinet members, presidents, senators, representatives etc.

 

[DDWW]

Holders shenanigans goes back to helping the Marc Rich pardon by Clinton. Marc Rich one of, if not the biggest, tax cheats in America.

But at least Pres. Clinton did get a $450,000 donation to his "Presidential Library" in return.

 

[sunmaster14]

Hans von Spakovsky has spent his career trying to deny people the right to vote. Generally he targets African-American voters. During the 2000 election he was one of Bush's lawyers and was one of the team that made sure 28,000 votes, cast mostly by African-Americans, were not counted. During WWII his father fought for neo-Nazi Yugoslavs against the Allies. Nice role model.

Neo-Nazis? During WWII? Were you taught history by Bluto Blutarsky?

 

[MattusMaximus]

Holder was great on civil rights, for which I applaud him.

Civil liberties? Not so much.

 

[Mike!]

Neo-Nazis? During WWII? Were you taught history by Bluto Blutarsky?

That's Senator Blutarsky, thank you very much.

 

[newyorkguy]

Neo-Nazis? During WWII? Were you taught history by Bluto Blutarsky?

Apparently von Spakovsky's father fought, not for neo-Nazis in WWII, but for contemporary garden-variety Nazis. Point being, no reasonable person should have a problem with that? (Von Spakovsky says his father "fought against communists.")

In all seriousness, von Spakovsky does have a troubling record on voter fraud.This is a Jane Mayer article from The New Yorker magazine:

Von Spakovsky recently sat down with me in a conference room at the Heritage Foundation...he cited a 2000 investigation, by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, of voting records in Georgia over the previous two decades; the paper reported that it had turned up fifty-four hundred instances of dead people being recorded as having voted. “That seems pretty substantial to me,” he said...."

Only when Mayer checked with the Atlanta newspaper she discovered:

The Journal-Constitution ran a follow-up article after the Georgia Secretary of State’s office indicated that the vast majority of the cases appeared to reflect clerical errors. Upon closer inspection, the paper admitted, its only specific example of a deceased voter casting a ballot didn’t hold up. The ballot of a living voter had been attributed to a dead man whose name was nearly identical. Link

 

[MattusMaximus]

Neo-Nazis? During WWII? Were you taught history by Bluto Blutarsky?

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!!!

 

[mgidm86]

Interesting. Your article was written by Hans von Spakovsky (for Fox News). Who is von Spakovsky? He was a Bush appointee to the Federal Election Commission; Bush used a "recess appointment" to put him on the Commission. At his confirmation hearing Senate Democrats charged that von Spakovsky was unacceptably partisan and, citing his tenure at DoJ, would use his position to disenfranchise low-income and minority voters. Here's what some former DoJ colleagues remembered about von Spakovsky:



Senate Democrats were eventually successful in getting von Spakovsky to withdraw his nomination. Von Spakovsky then took a position at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank.

Shoot the messenger then geez - Eric Holder is still resigning. I don't see too many people defending him, though it took two days for a thread to even appear here at JREF - wonder why? To quote Dirty Harry: "Gutless. Punk."

I notice how quickly threads pop-up here when some no-name conservative makes an embarrassing gaffe, but an Obama appointed Attorney General stepping down under these circumstances? The silence here for two days speaks volumes.

And thanks sunmaster14 for showing us all how to make an opening post without a ton of hyperbole and screaming capital letters. The snark at the end was justified in my opinion

 

[mgidm86]

Neo-Nazis? During WWII? Were you taught history by Bluto Blutarsky?

They were still new then

 

[newyorkguy]

Shoot the messenger then geez - Eric Holder is still resigning. <snip>

The message wasn't that Holder was "stepping down," but that "Holder is the worst person to hold the position of Attorney General since the disgraced John Mitchell," and this was presented as if it were a generally accepted fact. Only when the "messenger" is someone like Hans von Spakovsky, who has a reputation for being a) extremely partisan, and b) having demonstrated a lack of integrity (in fact I'd go so far as to classify him as anti-democratic, small 'd'), than I think that should be made clear.

Made clear that the comment should probably be taken with a fifty-ton boxcar load of salt!