SandBox Comments: Mountain Valley News "Is it complete incompetence or outright lying? - 12/28/11 "

Mountain Valley News:

"Because we feel so strongly about the entire constitution and because we have very personal reasons to believe that the Second Amendment is squarely in the sights of those who want to weaken that great document, we have tried to monitor what is going on with the so-called hearings regarding “Fast and Furious.”

In a nutshell, the Fast and Furious operation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was supposed to be a sting operation involving the shipping of guns to Mexico. It was conducted completely outside the normal law enforcement undercover operations procedures.

First, we have a real problem with the three people who should have been aware of this operation telling us (the people) that they did not know about it until early this year. Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are at best incompetent, and at worst, outright liars. Either way, the public has a right to better inquiries into this fiasco...."

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SandBox Comments: Power Line "The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel"

He has not even picked up the phone to speak directly to Brian Terry's family.


John Hinderaker:
"In today’s world, it is playing the race card. There are two notable miscreants in the news today. The first is Eric Holder, who, in a weekend interview, suggested that criticism of his job performance in relation to Fast and Furious and other issues is–sometimes, anyway–racist:

"Mr. Holder contended that many of his other critics — not only elected Republicans but also a broader universe of conservative commentators and bloggers — were instead playing “Washington gotcha” games, portraying them as frequently “conflating things, conveniently leaving some stuff out, construing things to make it seem not quite what it was” to paint him and other department figures in the worst possible light.


Of that group of critics, Mr. Holder said he believed that a few — the “more extreme segment” — were motivated by animus against Mr. Obama and that he served as a stand-in for him. “This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” he said, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American....”

Why are Colorado's Independent Conservatives sending Texas Governor Rick Perry to the White House in 2012?

He's hitting every mark.

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