{"id":7440,"date":"2012-07-02T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2012-07-02T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T04:09:12","slug":"eric-holder-says-republicans-have-made-him-a-proxy-to-attack-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/eric-holder-says-republicans-have-made-him-a-proxy-to-attack-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder Says Republicans Have Made Him a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcProxy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to Attack President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the regime continues its assault on the truth. Besides the constant lying about Obamacare being a tax they continue with the lie that contempt of Congress charges on the attorney general are politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this clown has stonewalled Congress, the Terry family and the American people for 18mos is now irrelevant. No, according to Holder and the regime its all about politics and taking anger towards the Emperor out on Holder.<\/p>\n<p>Typical arrogance of monsters infesting this nation, that which they are accusing the GOP of they are in fact doing. The only ones politicizing this is them!<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/eric-holder.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6786\" title=\"eric holder\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/eric-holder.png?resize=240%2C237\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/eric-holder.png?w=240 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/eric-holder.png?resize=90%2C90 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/eric-holder-says-republicans-have-made-him-a-proxy-to-attack-president-obama\/2012\/07\/02\/gJQAKDxMJW_story.html\">By Sari Horwitz | Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\nAttorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sharply criticized lawmakers Monday for voting to hold him in contempt of Congress last week, saying Republicans have made him a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153proxy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to attack President Obama in an election year.<\/p>\n<p>In his first interview since Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vote, Holder said lawmakers have used an investigation of a botched gun-tracking operation as a way to seek retribution against the Justice Department for its policies on a host of issues, including immigration, voting rights and gay marriage. He said the chairman of the committee leading the inquiry, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), is engaging in political theater as the Justice Department tries to focus on public safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing all of these things all the time Darrell Issa and his band have been nipping at my heels,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a defiant Holder said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been nipping, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been walking.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general has long been a lightning rod for Republican lawmakers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 anger toward the Obama administration. But Holder said the debate over documents related to the gun operation, known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fast and Furious\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d along with the National Rifle Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempts to make it an electoral issue \u00e2\u20ac\u201d have made matters worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve become a symbol of what they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like about the positions this Justice Department has taken,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am also a proxy for the president in an election year. You have to be exceedingly naive to think that vote was about .\u00e2\u20ac\u2030.\u00e2\u20ac\u2030. documents.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The House voted Thursday to make Holder the first sitting attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt, after he withheld certain documents that lawmakers have demanded as part of their investigation of Fast and Furious.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the gun operation, run by the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal agents watched as more than 2,000 guns hit the streets; their goal was to trace them to a Mexican drug cartel. Two guns linked to the operation were later found at the scene where a Border Patrol agent was killed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/eric-holder-says-republicans-have-made-him-a-proxy-to-attack-president-obama\/2012\/07\/02\/gJQAKDxMJW_story.html\">&#8230;READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the regime continues its assault on the truth. 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