Why are Karl Rove and his fellow corrupt Republicans so afraid of Eric Holder becoming our nation’s next Attorney General?

Here’s my Answer: JACK ABRAMOFF

The Abramoff scandal is a very active investigation and it is flying far below the radar. One gets the sense that the professionals in the Department of Justice who have been investigating this scandal are waiting out the Bush Administration to minimize political interference and any possible pardons Bush might hand out to his co-conspirators as he leaves office. The US Attorney in Maryland had to be tasked with investigating the DOJ in Washington DC because Abramoff and his team had infiltrated the Justice Department. There is evidence in the Abramoff billing records, documents released from Court cases and from Congressional investigations that former Attorney General John Ashcroft may have exposure is the scandal. Two of his former staffers are involved. One has pleaded guilty and the other has been indicted, his trial should begin later this year.

Many in Washington and in the press want to point to the artificial scandals from the Clinton era or that dickhead Governor in Illinois as the biggest scandals of the day. I expect that the GOP will trot these out as they try to attack Eric Holder, Obama’s choice to be Attorney General. I wrote about this a few weeks ago (Why the GOP Fears Eric Holder) and we need to get ready to fight back.

When the GOP screams Marc Rich: We scream Abramoff!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/2/0828/92837/28/679346

gummitch, that’s it? Your world is THAT simplistic?

Me? I asked you to provide good reasons why Panetta wasn’t qualified and you had the simplistic response. I also pointed you to a column by someone with a great deal of CIA experience who thinks he’s a good choice — and I suspect he knows a LOT more about it than you do.

Who said I hate Republicans? I haveno patience for stupid people and you made a stupid post. I have a good deal of respect for conservatives in general I just see things differently but I have no patience for an idiot who comes in and insults us while snivelling that we hate or insult them. Your HYPOCRISY is just stunning and frankly ignorant. I dont do guilt by association can you show Holder being involved in Blagos corruption if you can then cough it up if you cant him doing his job for a corrupt politicican isnt anything at all as for Panetta the top man at CIA is a manager he isnt a spy. He was chief of staff he has dealt with intelligence at top levels before. He might not have been my pick but saying he isnt qualified when MANY of the top CIA guys were carreer politicians is the old game of attacking THIS President for doing what many Presidents have done before. You dont really have a good argument but at least this time you MADE an argument your first stupid post was whining that we were mean while insulting us and saying they werent qualified because you said so while making an ignorant comment about koolaid. If you WANT to be taken seriously make serious posts. Your snivelling is pathetic

gummitch, that’s it? Your world is THAT simplistic?

Panetta is a lawyer with absolutely zero foreign or domestic intelligence experience. I’m not saying he can’t do the job, I’m saying he needs to be scrutinized. He may turn out to be the best man for the job.

You said he didn’t meet the smell test, so obviously you did say “he can’t do the job.”

Others disagree.

Nonetheless, all the R’s points of contention will fail.

Marc Rich pardon: the President has the constitutional right to pardon almost anybody he wants. Rich falls into the category of pardonable criminals. Holder’s role was to confirm that. Don’t like it? Go blame Bill Clinton all you like.

Blago taint:

Attorney general designee Eric Holder once was Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s pick to investigate a state Gaming Board’s decision to award a controversial casino license, although Holder’s role in the matter quickly fizzled.

So he was selected to investigate a decision made by somebody else.

Everything else: He was doing his job. In most cases he was completing an investigative review on an already-expired situation. In other cases, he was presenting a thoroughly legal and defensible argument on behalf of the government. But it’s not like he was defending torture in front of a judge, or trying to argue that habeus corpus doesn’t apply – nothing ridiculously unconstitutoinal like that…

“issues of [Holder’s] character”: You know what, I’d flip that guy off and tell him to go f*** himself. Smearing someone’s “character” without good reason consitutes a personal insult, rather than a professional criticism.

The R’s are messing with Holder for two reasons – one, to try and scare off any attempt by the DoJ to investigate the Bush Administration (showing their teeth), and two, to set up the story that “Holder is a partisan hack” once such investigations start to bear fruit (blame the referee). While they’re at it, it also lets them try giving some old Clinton-era campaigns another day in the sun to see if they help their case any.

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drew3rd Says:

Panetta is a lawyer with absolutely zero foreign or domestic intelligence experience.

The White House Chief of Staff job is such that you get a little experience in everything. I think the CIA could use some organizational and policy discipline about now, and that’s what he knows best. A good manager doesn’t need to know exactly how to do someone’s job in order to manage them effectively. It’s not like they’ve been good at much of anything for the past eight years, seeing how as we’re in Iraq after all.

As with so many Republican complaints, the ansewr is the same: we tried it “your way” and you screwed everything up. Now we’re going to try something else.

It will be that much more fun to see what he does once confirmed… with such a fresh memory of what he is fighting for (against).

Well I’ll be a voice of sanity here. I’m amazed that the republicans are only questioning the Holder appointment. It seems a reasonable question given his recent dealings. As far as Burris, he’s not a Blago cronie, only a lower level player. Panetta should give us all pause. CIA?

If you’re all sane and everything, perhaps you would like to explain in some detail why Panetta isn’t qualified for the job.

Stop the vitriol while YOU tell us to stop drinking the koolaid and just decide on your own that two of Obamas appointments dont pass the smell test take your own advise and grow up.

That’d make ‘em poop in their panties, and Holder would breeze through in a snap.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are loading their big guns and taking careful aim… at their own feet.