Holder moves forward: Screw up, move up
The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared the way for AG nominee Eric Holder. Only two nay votes — from GOP Senate Republicans John Cornyn and Tom Coburn.
Eric Holder’s nomination as the first African-American attorney general moved to the full Senate on Wednesday with broad bipartisan support, as Republicans who earlier criticized the nominee determined he was well qualified for the job.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 17-2 to favorably recommend Holder for the post.
The only senators who voted against Holder in committee were Republicans John Cornyn of Texas and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
Cornyn criticized Holder’s role in controversial pardons and questioned whether he would protect intelligence agents who participated in harsh interrogations.
Holder’s supporters said he wouldn’t be afraid to tell President Barack Obama he was wrong. They praised him for declaring that waterboarding as an interrogation technique is torture. And they said he would be tough on crime.
“When asked whether this country at is at war he said yes,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “He indicated the enemy have declared war on this country long before we realized it. He sees the battlefield as the entire globe.”
Graham said he supports Holder’s view that the country needs to interrogate terrorism suspects in accordance with American values.
“I am confident this new attorney general will have a balanced approach and I look forward to working with him. I know he’s made mistakes and so have I,” Graham said.
Yup. Mistakes make you more qualified for the job. Only in Washington.
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Hey, if a tax dodger can be Secretary of the Treasurer, why shouldn’t a perjurer by Attorney General.
Welcome to the New Age of Democrat Ethics.
oh, now, that’s funny. “you made mistakes, I made mistakes …heck, we all made mistakes…”
Going forward, lets not try to LEARN from mistakes, now, shall we.
A draft dodger for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? Some weasel lawyer can surely finagle Billy Jeff into that role.
Well hell, If that was the criteria, I should be King Of the World!
Affirmative action run amok!
Senator Graham: enjoy your last few years on the public payroll…you better get that resume updated.
because terrorism is a crime.
would taking a bite out of terrorism be torture?
Why do I have “chicken-skin” when I listen to all of these Obama selectees?
Semi-OT
Remember the secret camps Bush was going to build for gay people, according to leading Hollywood intellectual Cher?
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645
Probably not for gay people…
…and so, I’m afraid, is the Constitutional Republic once known as the USA.
A national government that holds the cowardly belief that it needs to be all things to all people (except its own citizens), in the baseless hope that they will respond in kind and not put their national needs first, is doomed from the get-go.
Good. Now get the hell out of the way, and let DOD handle it.
sorry, forgot my /sarc off
the anti-gunners now have a huge advocate in a position of power….whether or not you own a gun or believe in gun ownership, stats show that when the law abiding citizens are disarmed, the criminals run amok….God help us all…
Is the African-American thing supposed to offset his lack of competence and character?
Send Graham a little love note:
http://lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.EmailSenatorGraham
I just did.
Note to Rock River – where’s my M4?
Well, if “mistakes” are the main criterion for the Obama administration, then I guess we’ll soon be seeing the likes of former Democrat mayors of Detroit, Atlanta, Newark, Birmingham, and others to be named soon, since they’ve ALL made “mistakes”. Of course they’ve all gone to jail, or are about to, but what the hell, they were only a “innocent” mistakes, and these people are too valuable not to include in an administration full of crooks, liars, cheats and thieves.
Culture of corruption? Look no further than your own city mayor’s office in many cases. Then look up.
Worked for Obama, didn’t it?
It’s not as if executive experience is a requirement for President, so what do you expect?
We’ve had plenty of white incompetent people without character running the government I guess some incompetent African-Americans doing it won’t make much a difference.
I cry daily now. . .cry for my country and what she used to stand for. I e-mailed my congressmen about Geithner and his nomination and he still got it! We need to go to Washington and demonstrate against corruption, etc.
lindsey Graham…just the man to oversee the collapse of the country….The lapdog of John McCain makes me want to vomit.
Well, at least I’m proud that we hold our hiring candidates to a much higher standard than Obama. Tax cheats? Nope. You won’t be hired. Questionable past ethics? Nope, you won’t be hired.
Chuck “The Schmuck” Schumers endorsement alone should have negated Eric Holder’s nomination.
only in government. but then i remember nardelli at home depot and then to cerburus/chrysler. and just think of all the bank ceos who get hired despite screwing up at their previous job. but in government you don’t even get criticised, like the people who f’ed up fannie may and freddie mac.
I smell the essence of the Peter Principle in action, here.
So the New Surgeon General is going to be Dr Kevorkian, Bill Ayers Director of the FBI, and Osama Bin Laden the new Congressional Chaplain? Got it.
And maybe we can put that drug dealer that Ramos and Compean shot in the butt in charge of the Border Patrol.
I feel like I’ve fallen through the looking glass and even the mad hatter is confused.
Got it!! Qualifications and requirements needed to become an Obama political appointee - First African-American for that position, few mistakes in your past, and voila’ you’re in like Flint!
Yet another sad day in the USA. What ever happened to the words of wisdom of MLK, who said that crap (and now it is crap) that he looked forward to the day when a person was not judged by the color of their skin???? That’s all there is in Obamaramaland
Is this what they call being “kicked upstairs?”
I hear Kevorkian is up for surgeon general…
What I think is absolutely hilarious is the fact that Obama claimedand campainged on the pledge to “clean up Washington”, yet the balance of his cabinet is riddled with former Clinton people. How is assigning corrput people from a corrupt former administration “change” and “cleaning up” opf anything, let alone Washington????