The U.S. Department of Injustice
My column today looks at the political corruption of the Obama Justice Department. With the crime-coddling crony Attorney General Eric Holder in charge, no one should be surprised, of course. Members of Congress who care about electoral integrity need to press the administration on who intervened in the New Black Panther Party case and why. Members of Congress who care about voter fraud need to press the administration on its decision to undermine Georgia voter verification rules. And members of Congress need to continue connecting the dots to ACORN and the larger plan to wield power to preserve and protect a permanent Democratic majority.
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The U.S. Department of Injustice
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
The seal of the U.S. Department of Justice bears a Latin phrase: “Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur. The motto refers to the Attorney General “who prosecutes on behalf of Lady Justice.” But under Barack Obama’s politically corrupted DOJ, Lady Justice is getting the shaft.
To wit: Let’s examine the uproar over Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to protect hate-mongering thugs who harassed and bullied precinct workers and voters on Election Day in Philadelphia.
Oh, wait. There’s been no uproar. Let me tell you why.
Two weeks ago, in a highly unusual move, Holder dismissed default judgments his department had won against two of three defendants charged with violating the Voting Rights Act. On November 4, 2008, a billy club-wielding militant in military-style boots and beret stood outside a Philly polling location with a similarly-dressed partner. Citizen journalists from the Pennsylvania-based blog Election Journal captured the menacing duo on video. One of the watchdogs observed: “I think it might be a little intimidating that you have a stick in your hand.”
That was an understatement. Witness Bartle Bull, a Democratic lawyer who organized for Bobby Kennedy and worked for the civil rights movement in Mississippi, signed a sworn affidavit decrying the Election Day brutishness. Serving as a poll watcher that day, he called the behavior of Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson “the most blatant form of voter discrimination I have encountered in my life.”
One of them, Bull reported, taunted poll observers: “[Y]ou are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”
If the pair had been dressed in white sheets, all hell would have broken loose. But the ebony-clad thugs were members of the New Black Panther Party who had been dispatched by Malcolm X wannabe Malik Shabazz to “guard” the polls. Translation: Protect them from scrutiny. Shield them from sunlight. Keep independent voters and observers out.
Who is Malik Shabazz? The bespectacled race hustler grabbed the spotlight in the weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks by defending Osama bin Laden, blaming President Bush for 9/11, bashing Israel, and blasting our founding fathers as “snakes.” His group also infamously rallied behind the Duke University lacrosse rape hoaxer. And on the day before the presidential election last fall, one of Shabazz’s “field marshals,” Minister Najee Muhammad, held a “black power” rally promising to send his forces to polls across the country “to ensure that the enemy does not sabotage the black vote.”
The Bush DOJ filed suit against Malik Shabazz, Samir Shabazz, and Jerry Jackson in early January 2009. None of the defendants filed an answer to the lawsuit, putting them all into default. Instead of taking the default judgment that DOJ is entitled to against all of the defendants, the Obama team fully dismissed the lawsuits against Malik Shabazz and Jerry Jackson. Jackson, you should know, is an elected member of the Philadelphia Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher. Witness Greg Lugones told me “Obama campaign operatives were on site throughout the entire episode.”
Former Justice Department official and voting rights scholar Hans Von Spakovsky added: “I have never heard of the Department dismissing a case it has already won by default. They have…sent the message that hurling racial epithets and slurs at voters and intimidating and threatening voters at the polls is fine with the Holder Justice Department – at least if you are African-American. I seriously doubt that would have happened if the races had been reversed in this case.”
Exactly. And to repeat: The harassment was aimed not just at voters, but at white poll workers trying to ensure a fair and lawful process in a city infamous for machine politics and street money pollution.
Who are the racial cowards, Attorney General Holder?
On the heels of this voter intimidation protection plan, the Obama Justice Department issued another decision that undermines electoral integrity – but bolsters Democratic voter drives. The department this week denied the state of Georgia the ability to enact strict citizenship voter verification rules previously approved by two federal courts. As the Georgia secretary of state Karen Handel explained: “DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists.”
On top of all that, Holder recently politicized the legal review process involving the contentious issue of D.C. voting rights. After careful study, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel had issued an opinion that a House bill on the matter was unconstitutional. Holder, who supports D.C. voting rights along with President Obama, overrode his staff lawyers’ ruling—and simply ordered up an alternative opinion that fit the White House agenda.
Lady Justice is now protected by a security force armed with billy clubs and lawyers who serve the cause of protecting the re-election of Barack Obama over the rule of law.
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There is a race war brewing…..thanks to THE WON and his homies.
The 2010 elections are our last chance to save the country we know.
MrOlympia, I wish I had a different thought. I don’t. This all looks more like naked “pay-back” than a “post-racial America”.
Hey Holder! Isn’t this an opportunity for some of that racial dialogue you suggested for the rest of us cowards?
Or is it just another one way street?
Hope and change, my wrinkly white bewtocks!
Time for ALL to get involved in booting this fraud out of office. 2010 it is!
Well we fully understand what reality is, what we face, and what we are up against. Time to make their lives very uncomfortable.
The road to one-party rule…by any means necessary.
Thank you stupid sheeple. Idiots.
I remember once when I was a free man living in a free nation governed by rule of law.
I’m not a law expert, but I would think that full disclosure of the reasons the JD dismissed the default judgments would be a requirement as opposed to a choice.
BTW, Michelle, ANOTHER excellent piece. Well written and researched.
Thank you!
ahh. Hate to tell you but the 2010 and 2012 will be dicided before they take place!
In my jurisdiction, a plaintiff has an absolute right to dismiss–with or without prejudice–a lawsuit they bring that involves no counter-claim. A judge might ask why, but would have no power to compel any response. We don’t have to give a reason, or any argument.
Now, a SENATOR OR CONGRESSMAN could ask Mr. Holder what the hell he was thinking…
That would work…
Holder, that racist pig, is worthless scum. He should be jailed. Right in the same cell as Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson should be in.
I truly hope that the next republican administration remembers how these people behaved and prosecutes them with a vengeance. I could care less at this point whether that’s an appropriate thing to do. The right needs to start playing by the left’s rules. And that would be… with no rules what so ever.
This reminds me of the militants of the late 60′s. Must be their spawn at work now.
Looking at the amount of damage they’ve done in the first 4 months, I’m not sure we have until Nov 2010. Between the racial tensions, the state vs federal control, coming hyper inflation, the coming muslims vs Jews and Christians middle east wars etc. etc., I think we’ll be in a major economic and social meltdown by then. And OB will have a reason to declare marshal law and suspend the elections.
Mission Accomplished, America is socialist, rainbows and unicorns all around.
It hasa been my opinion for the past year that Obama will do more harm to race relations in this country than good. I could easily have supported a black man that had similar values as I, but this man, The ONE, is dangerous. Just looking at the DOJ is a good place to start, but by no means is it all inconclusive.
Oh, and great article Michelle.
Here come the riots, because people will then believe it’s necessary to meet somewhere and travel to the polling location as a group, with their own security. I guess when you elect a Kenyan, you get Kenyan style elections.
Ya know something? I don’t think Obama is doing a very good job on all this racial healing stuff. Maybe it’s just me, but I am not feeling the love here.
(Do I really need to put a sarc tag on this?)
when the worthless have nothing to support their claims, race becomes the answer. and frankly if race is all they have to counter with, they have nothing. it’s time for the guilt driven ones to develop some courage and see it for what it is, a scam. some pee their pants at the thought of race coming into the equation, race is just another word, used very well by some to further their agenda and get something for nothing.
Without an ounce of irony! Reminds me of the scene in 1984 (oh those were the days) when someone is wondering why there is no recorded history from a period of the recent past (hint: it’s because that section had just been expunged). Have you expunged the history of the Bush DOJ?
And Holder is throwing out many Bush era cases because they were incompetent. The Stevens case, and other Alaska corruption cases, are “history” (but only if you remember them).
The man is like an octopus, tentacles into everything. And everything he does is to consolidate power. He will make Fidel Castro, Hugo look Like capitalist.
Next comes purple thumbs.
I haven’t checked but did Holder go to the Idi Amin School of Law? If so, he’ll fit in quite nicely in D.C.
Yes there certainly is Ollie. Sadly so. Obama is stirring the pot. Holder is the American Black Himmler and DOJ is his tool. 53% of America asked for this.
It is going to be a bumpy ride. When Minorities take charge the Majority suffers and Nations are destroyed. Ours is on the table and waiting for the butchers knife. Pick your side and arm yourself. Good Luck!
LGM: OBAMA is president, not Bush. Its OBAMA.
Again a jew such as yourself should be well aware of the danger of scapegoating.
NOTHING RELEVANT AS USUAL.
don’t forget the other front from La Ratza….they are just as bad when it comes to supporting illegal activity and shoving their culture down America’s throat…
LGM’s answer to everything from now untill obama is gone,…..
BUT BUT BUT BUSH DID…… (fill in the blank)
That’s the problem with post-partisan government. No loyal opposition. I know Rogue Cheddar would approve of the following trenchant Three Stooges quote:
“If we had some ham, we could make ham and eggs! If we had some eggs.”
Ah, but a good question would be which personality of this individual posted?
affirmative action and race go hand in hand. using race for anything is a sign of weakness. race is a crutch for those who are too cowardly to stand on their own two feet.
No truer words spoken. Look at the African continent and the once great countries that are now fourth world hell holes. Rhodesia anyone? S. Africa not much better.
Haiti was once a very prosperous nation, until….
We need to buck up our representatives and get them growing some if we stand a chance to derail the downfall of the USA.
Then I assume, lgm, that you have no objection to Attorney General Holder testifying under oath as to why these cases were dismissed. Since you “know” it was incompetence, I think the Attorney General should tell the Congress why the Bush DOJ was so incompetent in this circumstance.
Let’s party.
lgm said:
Once again you have demonstrated why sniffing glue is not a good thing to do. Noe repeat after me: It is now Obamas Administration!! It is now Obamas Administration!!
OK, we all know the BS meme. Now, tell me what corruption the Bush DOJ was guilty of committing. Please, don’t tell us about firing political hires, because that is common practice, and Bill Clinton did it harder and faster.
How was this case against the NBPP cats remotely “incompetent”.
You REALLY don’t want to evoke 1984 around this group. We read it, and most of us understand that Orwell meant it as an indictment of collectivist tendencies to totalitarianism.
Yeah, they were so incompetent they WON a default judgement. How do you give up a fight that you won?! I am so pissed about this!
Uhhh, lgm, listen. I know honesty can be a problem for looney, leftwing liberals, but, you simply can NOT continue to blame George Bush when anything goes wrong, and credit Duh One when something goes right. That just isn’t honest.
Duh One has been in office nearly half a year now. By now, if there is a problem, he OWNS IT!
One of the last, good democratic Presidents, Harry Truman, had a sign on his desk reading, “The buck stops here.” Duh One needs a sign reading, “The buck stops with George Bush.”
Lest we forget…the POLITICAL decision was made to OVERRIDE the CAREER attorneys in the NBPP case.
And, with respect to Stevens, I don’t think there is a case to make that the man is NOT corrupt, just that the case against him was very badly handled. Kind of like OJ and murder…
The Chicago Way continues to flourish in Washington under the gaze of The Messiah and his cronies. It will get worse.
I have just sent this letter to my Congressman and both of my Senators. I will followup WHEN they all waffle.
Michelle, please excuse me for borrowing a couple selected lines. Everyone, feel free to use this if you wish.
On November 4, 2008, a billy club-wielding member of the New Black Panther Party in military-style boots and beret stood outside a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, polling location with a similarly-dressed partner. They were recorded on video tape and numerous affidavits regarding their attempts to intimidate voters and poll workers at that voting place were submitted.
In January 2009 the Bush Department of Justice Department (DOJ) filed suit against Malik Shabazz, Samir Shabazz, and Jerry Jackson. None of the defendants filed an answer to the lawsuit, putting them all into default. Instead of taking the default judgment that DOJ is entitled to against all of the defendants, the Obama DOJ fully dismissed the lawsuits against Malik Shabazz and Jerry Jackson. Jackson is an elected member of the Philadelphia Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher.
Former Justice Department official Hans Von Spakovsky has commented, “I have never heard of the Department dismissing a case it has already won by default. They have…sent the message that hurling racial epithets and slurs at voters and intimidating and threatening voters at the polls is fine with the Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”
I concur. This e-mail constitutes a formal request for a Congressional inquiry into why these charges were dismissed. I request that you demand a sworn deposition from the Attorney General stating his department’s justification for this dismissal and that you make his deposition available to me and the media.
Ragspierre said:
How right you are..
Politically, this would be called a “hanging curve” – you gotta swing at that! It’s too easy!
Darned baseball euphemisms – probably went over the heads of our wuss politicians.
Elected officials, go ahead.. Now’s your chance! Republicans? RNC?
Crickets chirping.
sonofdy said (#29):
There is some truth in this. It’s disturbing to read you day after day slamming Obama for doing things you defended when Bush did them.
Try proving that it’s really the politicization that bothers you, not the fact that those doing the politicizing are liberal.**
**Do not misinterpret this as a stipulation that Holder is politicizing the DOJ. You have no evidence of that. Instead you are complaining about decisions you disagree with.
Thanks, Flyoverman. I sent copies of you letter to both my senators and my congresscritter.
It sure looks like one who said “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker,” knew what they were talking about. I suppose “hope & change” was code.
As far as Georgia is concerned, I live here, in Gwinnett County, which is the headquaters of the Mexican drug cartel. The worry about voter fraud is like the old saying of closing the barn door after the animals have left. Unfortunately, Gov. Perdue put this state in this situation and has done absolutely nothing to make Georgia unattractive to illegals.
Funny thing is, I live in an area where there is a lot of illegals and I don’t see them voting. They don’t have to, the Democrats take care of them, and it’s mainly our black population that keep voting the Dem’s in. Go figure.
I am proven right. Sad sad little obamabot.
The American worms are turning…
Make them squirm!
I don’t post here that often, but I do read and when I read your postings, you make little to no sense. The topic is about dismissing charges against the New Black Panther for voter intimidation, which there are laws against.
By your analogy, you are stating that Bush did the same. Post your facts of where and when did Bush’s DOJ defend the New Black Panther for voter intimidation. Something tells me you can’t and you won’t because you’re a sad intellectually dishonest person.
Eric Holder, ODopey, and the rest of his cronies are conniving, traitorous, racists. Dropping the case against the New Black Panther Party is about as upfront, in your face arrogance and disregard for law as I have seen. They want a war. It’s becoming more and more obvious. They are going to get one. They are delusional enough to believe that no one will stand up to them. They are WRONG.
I’d like some examples of this. Name a few things Bush and Obama have BOTH done, for which we’ve defended Bush and slammed Obama. I can’t think of any.
Massive Gov’t spending? No, we slammed Bush on that, too.
Nationalizing private companies? No, we slammed Bush for TARP/AIG.
Did the Bush DOJ dismiss a default win in a lawsuit over right-wing voter intimidation? I seriously doubt it.
Put up or shut up.
To quote part of a comment made by Barry Goldwater “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” This not moderation this is justice denied. This administration is full racist in violation of how many Amendments? Marxism is just around the corner.
Oh, and this idiot troll “lgm” is a complete loser who has no life and types out his crap just to inflame things over an anonymous medium. No facts, no evidence, no corroboration. Just spews commie talk points and propaganda. Go back to Havana, you troll.
Note the same “false choice” meme used by THE ONE.
The fact is that the tension between effective national security policy and civil liberties has ALWAYS been a very TRUE choice, and has been debated since the Founding.
Calling it a “false choice” is simply a lie.
so in the memorable words of candidate ronald reagan in 1979/80. What’s the misery index? or today he might have said, “are you hoping for change yet?” UAW, how’s obama working out for you? Yo, homies, how is the one finding you new mortgages and jobs? American women, are your children and grandchildren facing a better future than you faced as children? if not, why not? will there be a middle class after this mess? Doing what? the only growth industry in the u.s. is gubmint work, and to increase gubmint, you must fund it by confiscating money from someone working. i guess you can tax gubmint workers to fund other gubmint workers, but isn’t that robbing peter to pay paul. i see microsoft says it will transfer numerous jobs offshore if obama tax goes through. so soccer moms, you want your children to grow up to be doctors under the new obamacare system of medicare for all, or lawyers who no longer get to sue doctors under obamacare. i hear there is a school for butlers and the servant business is another growing opportunity. the rich and the servants. sounds like 1909, not 2009.
I was right!!!!
He is, you just refuse to see it.
No, this is what you have been doing on this site for the last year and half against the Bush Administration.
You had even less evidence of the numerous, inane claims you made against President Bush and his administration, yet that didn’t stop you from proceeding at full bore.
Thank you – moonsbreath#49 – I was just going to say that about lgm! (Mind reading?) But you left out the part about him being an incredible putz!
2010 and 2012 are not in the bag for the GOP…no matter how badly Obama does.
Before 2010….Obama and the Dems will legalize 20,000,000+ illegals giving them the right to vote. (and the ones of those who do vote, will vote predominately Democratic).
And if you think there was voter in 2008…now that Holder and the Obama DOJ are in charge, there will be millions of fraudulent votes cast in 2010 and 2012 elections.(thanks to ACORN and company).
Welcome to the dictatorship of Barack Hussein Obama.
Sorry my above sentence should read “And if you think there was voter fraud in 2008″…..
Sad but true, CiE.
As I remarked to you on the other thread:
Just imagine dangerous clowns like that poster you cite running our country.
Oh, wait! They are!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/TaxDollars/
Please everyone sign this petition and then pass along to your email list and other sites you peruse… Michele Bachman, the only one standing up for us…
“Pipe down, you guys, you’re spoilin’ the whole war for me!”
- Larry (HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS, 1936)
I miss Ronald Reagan, too.
How bitterly ironic that we should be considering the state our nation is in on this, the commemoration of D-Day.
This is not the America our predecessors lived, fought, and died to give us.
sonofdy, you are exactly right. In lgm’s mind, it’s ok for Democrats/progressives to do bad things because Republicans are “worse”. lgm thinks it is ok for Obama to abuse the Constitution because he thinks that “Bushitler” completely ignored it.
Granite,
3 will get you 5 if LGM tops himself again today. I honestly think his lunacy knows no limits.
Cannot say you are wrong, M’sB.
Take a look at this from another thread:
If you have read enough of this individual’s posts over the last year or so, you will have noticed a definite change in the tone of said individual’s posts.
The posts, instead of simply sounding silly, foolish, and cheerleader-like; now give the impression of a feeble attempt at firmness and edginess.
We here are not sure whether the poster is trying out Charles Atlas’s makeover of a 97-lb. weakling who doesn’t want to get beachsand kicked into his face any longer – or whether more than one individual now posts under that same screen name, giving the posts an eerie feeling of multiple personalities.
Perhaps we should refer to that poster as “Sybil”, or “Eve”?
Uh-uh.
No way.
That’s a sucker bet!
As Curly says at the end of an episode, when The Stooges, in prison, are crushing rocks on his head, “Hey, that’s a real one!”
Then, looking at the camera, he says, “I’m no fool! Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!”
Agreed, Rags.
(BTW, D-day was June 6th.)
Michelle says:
I think it reads more accurately with the minor edit.
That Hope-a-Dope and his minions like Holder do what they do does not surprise.
- Anyone paying attention to Hope-a-Dope during the campaign knew that he was a radical leftist masquerading as the Second Coming.
- Anyone who knew that Tim Geithner was a flagrant tax cheat knew that installing him as Treasury Secretary would be a disaster.
- And anyone who recalled that Eric Holder was the architect behind the Marc Rich pardon knew that his tenure as Attorney General would make a mockery of the “Justice” Department.
The only eye-brow raiser thus far has been how quickly Hope-a-Dope and his goons have cast off any pretense of moderation. I thought they’d make the head-fake in that direction for at least a year before showing their true colors.
But then again, if they waited that long they’d have “wasted a crisis,” wouldn’t they?
You stated the crux of the matter well. 2010 would be our last chance to roll back what Hope-a-Dope and the donks are doing to destroy the Republic, but I expect by 2010 that they’re going to have the mechanisms in place to make our elections just as much of a joke as they are in Zimbabwe, Cuba or Venezuela.
“You ain’t seen nuthin yet!!”
- Hope-a-Dope, predicting the nature of the donks’ planned gaming of the elections in 2010
This government is fully, and openly, biased towards blacks, and is increasingly getting bolder and bolder about it.
These are blacks who do *not* want equality. They want revenge.
Pasadena Phil: There’s another 3-Stooges quote by Curly and it reminds me LOT of lgm.
nail49 said:
Or,
Why is lgm so off his rocker today?
Answer:He cannot see his own forehead, again.
Looks like the DoJ has become the DoV – Dept of Vengeance.
Look, I understand history pretty well.
The confluence of a perceived economic disaster, a megalomaniac at the head of a powerful central government, the apparent existence of a very large, indoctrinated organization which exists at the fringe of legality…or way beyond the fringe…, the apparent abandonment of all constitutional constraints, and the subversion of the legal system have a great deal of resonance with certain very unhappy chapters of history.
Flyoverman: Thanks for the template, I forwarded it to my two senators and my representative.
We the People…If the government does not work for us, “We the People”, it is time to fire it.
“There are those who will continue to want to divide by fear – to pit our national security against our civil liberties – but that is a false choice. We have a solemn responsibility to protect our people while we also protect our principles.”
E. Holder, AG
Tell that to the father of the slaying recruit.
Usually, I just skip over his/her inane blatherings. But, as you say, they’ve had a change in tone.
I think the name “Sybil” fits them better. They’re kinda like a caterpillar (no offense to caterpillars) going through a metamorphosis.
Michelle,
I posted something similar the last time you wrote of this debacle. I think we need a change of terminology. If we are a “nation of cowards”, Eric Holder just proved himself to be the “Coward General”.
Thanks, Rags, for the clarification. Now I’ll dutifully hold my breath for the soon to be inquiry from Congress. Or maybe not.
With the Dems holding power in the committees in the House and Senate, it is a fantasy to imagine Holder being grilled on the politicization and corruption at the DoJ.
Remember the difference in the parties, the Republicans, most of whom believe in God, and the Demonrats, most who don’t.
Compare and contrast Nixon’s after the fact coverup of the Watergate burglary with Bill Clinton’s lying under oath while being deposed, lying again under oath to a Grand Jury, and encouraging and coaching Federal employees to lie under oath.
It was a Republican Senator, John Tower, who said “what did the President know, and when did he know it”.
Elliot Richardson, the AG, and his deputy AG, both Nixon appointees, resigned before they would fire the Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox.
Go back to Congressman Foley, driven to resign by his party for sending perved e-mails to a 16 year old, versus Massachusetts Demonrat Jerry Studds who actually sodomized a 16 year old male page, or Barney’s Frank, who let a gay prostitute use his house as a brothel in exchange for sex.
Republicans seek justice, even for their own. Democrats, don’t.
This is just more proof that the GOP nor any third party has no chance of victory in 2010 or 2012 if you play by the rules. I am going to vote absentee and all my dead relatives and my dogs and cats will vote in the next election. I just might even drive to other states and vote. If you can’t beat them, join them.
Let’s sue for another election…
My election right’s have been violated by ACORN and the like. Any lawyers out there want to sue the DOJ?
Its really time folks to start petition drives and hire lawyers… this is only going to get uglier because we have left the door open.
I am writing the DOJ and demanding answers — as many of you that can do the same and then paste the responces to this thread. I have written several though, and did not receive a reply.
This statement is from the original post (emphasis mine):
When you read this, did you disagree with 1) the fact that the Bush DOJ filed the suit; 2) that a registered Democrat in good standing was making the complaint; or 3) the anyone complained that it happened at all?
Would it be acceptable to you, regardless of the administration, if white and black were reversed in this situation?
Do you suffer from white guilt, hatred of the law, or an inability to see that the law, the Voter Rights Law no less, was egregiously being broken here?
If these guys popped your kneecaps because they assumed that you were not going to vote for Obama, would you still be okay with it?
Please support all of your conclusions with cited evidence.
Hey, instead of all the talk about reverse voter fraud, race wars and race baiting (sorry, sonofdy – love ya- but tossing the j word on lgm was not appropriate), get a grip.
Michelle’s excellent article deserves a spirited and well-thought out defense, not such silly nonsense.
Oh yeah. lgm, would you please explain the rationale behind the Holder decision to throw out Georgia’s voter verification rules?
Please be consistent with your answer above, i.e. that Holder is not politicizing the DOJ.
Do understand, only Democrats, voting for Democrats, are allowed, no, encouraged, to do as you propose.
This DOJ will be on you fast and furious otherwise.
Dexter Alarius said (#51):
The example was in the post. Bush gets a gaudy necklace from the Saudi King, no problem. Obama gets the same necklace from the same King and you break out in racist hives over it.
And the original topic of this thread was politicization of the DOJ, which Bush did. Remember whatshername from Bob Jones School of Law (or was it Rush Limbaugh school of law?) who eventually admitted: “I crossed the line”
That’s right America. If you’re white, and Christian, you better behave yourself. But if you’re a Black Panther and you want to intimidate White Christians with night sticks at voting places, that’s A-Ok. No problem with that.
The way to play this game is to fight back. With ferocity.
How EXACTLY.
Speaking of the new “pay czar”…
Lessee…name a population that has no right of appeal…including GITMO detainees.
Bingo Michelle!!! ‘Nuff said.
“I crossed the line” of the Civil Service regs.
Not the line of the law, which would have resulted in a wrongful discharge law suit.
The employee in question, when last I knew of her, was working as a contract worker at the DOJ.
More relativism crap, lgm.
You know what lgm, I am NOT in the mood for your crap so answer the damn question or STFU.
sonofdy and Ragspierre: lgm is using the old canard of firing US attorneys. Of course, he turns a blind eye to Clinton having done exactly the same thing forgetting they are all Presidential appointees serving at the pleasure of the President.