Should we be worried that some republicans are praising Eric Holder?

[EraOfResponsibility]

What are they up to? What are they planning? Are they going to try to persuade him not to investigate Bush crimes? hmmmm

[Eric J in MN]

1. Maybe it's because he's pro Drug War. (NT)

NT

[BlooInBloo]

2. I'm worried that republicans breathe oxygen. *I* breathe oxygen!

[EraOfResponsibility]

5. LOL smartass

:)

[Andy823]

3. Maybe some republicans

Are just as tired of all the crap that went on with Bush as we are! Obama is trying to unite the country, and getting republicans to help is the only way he can do it. Not all republicans are bad, and if we treat them that way we are no better than Bush and the neocons that destroyed our country. We need to unite the country not divide it more.

[avaistheone1]

4. Yup. Because Holder is for warrant-less wire tapping

I was all for Holder until I learned this today.

No wonder the Repukes are feeling gleeful.

[EraOfResponsibility]

6. a-ha! see? I KNEW it was something!

[BlooInBloo]

10. No, you know some jackass who makes shit up SAYS it was something....

Here's Holder YESTERDAY saying precisely the fucking opposite.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/16/1526/81222/541/684935

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9muQ5c7Ck

Sheesh. I fucking hate how people just make shit up, and then others fucking believe the shit, simply because they were already predisposed to believe in stupid shit.

[EraOfResponsibility]

17. You know what? I'm not even mad at this.

I'm THRILLED to be proven wrong! So thank you, Bloo :)

[BlooInBloo]

7. Link to Holder saying or writing that he's in favor of warrantless wiretapping please.

[avaistheone1]

11. Here's a link with a direct quote from Holder supporting wiretapping.

Holder's responses to the question of warrantless wiretapping gave even less to be optimistic about. "There are certain things that a president has the constitutional right that the legislative branch cannot impinge upon," Mr. Holder said, stressing that wiretapping had proven to be a critical intelligence tool. Like Obama, he said he supported the immunity provisions for telecoms as provided for by the Protect America Act of 2007.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/120221/under_eric_holder,_'war_on_terror'_would_still_define_the_doj/?page=2

[BlooInBloo]

12. Thanks for spreading pure, unmitigated bullshit.

[avaistheone1]

13. So if you are saying that Holder is an unmitigated bullshit artist I am going to

have to agree.

Holder said it. You wanted the link. Now deal with it. :crazy:

[BlooInBloo]

14. No, that's NOT the link I asked for. Look at what was requested....

It's all stupid, of course, since you're just making shit up. But if you can get me the link I requested, I'm happy to listen.

EDIT: Here's more kryptonite to your stupid:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/kyl-holder-torture/

"As for Holder’s views on FISA, he’s on the record opposing President Bush’s bypassing of the law, saying in June that he never thought he “would see that a President would act in direct defiance of Federal law by authorizing warentless NSA surveillance of American citizens.”

Apparently, Holder’s belief that “we are best when we operate as people governed by the law” is reason enough for Kyl to oppose Holder’s nomination to be the nation’s chief enforcer of the law."

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/holder-justice-issues/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122102326_pf.html


Keep burning yourself with your own stupid. Please.


EDITEDIT: And get back here with those goalposts! You initially claimed it was WARRANTLESS wiretapping that Holder was for. The magic word is somehow magically missing in the last thing you said. How fascinating.

[AtomicKitten]

20. I don't believe that's a valid conclusion about Holder, but it's a moot issue.

The FISA court ruled that warantless wire-tapping was/is legal. This is the court's second ruling in decades. The ruling is a bit fuzzy on past actions, though.

edited for link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/washington/16fisa.html

[Thrill]

8. No he's not. Go back and watch the hearing

[Barrymores Ghost]

22. Try again, sport. N/T

[Thrill]

9. They can't stop his nomination. So what do you expect?

[nsd]

15. Yes, absolutely.

We should be worried all the time, about everything.

:sarcasm:

[jenmito]

16. If Faux News was praising him maybe I'd worry. But they're constantly trashing him, so I'm not.

He MUST be OK.

[Occam Bandage]

18. Should I be worried that some Republicans praise the Chicago White Sox?

Bush even had them at the White House after the 2005 season! What are they planning? Are the White Sox complicit in war crimes? Are my hard-earned entertainment dollars going to support torture?!

[Barrymores Ghost]

19. Yes, because he's a Black pro-life Neo-Nazi who favors Israel, uber alles. N/T

[Barrymores Ghost]

21. P.S. Thanks for staying on top of this.

:eyes:

[Telly Savalas]

23. Obama has an 83% approval rating.

Saying nasty things about his appointments probably isn't going to help the GOP's cause.