Sen. Pat Leahy on New Black Panther Party case: Blame Bush, twiddle thumbs
Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans demanded a hearing on the New Black Panther Party shenanigans of the Obama Department of (Social) Justice.
Sen. Pat Leahy has replied. Cliff Notes’ version: Blame Bush. Hide behind Abigail Thernstrom. Wait for Eric Holder’s next spin cycle. Read the response right here:
7-29-10 PJL to Sessions Re – NBBP
Speaking of Thernstrom, Andy McCarthy responds to her latest weak sauce at NRO — and her own obstructionist refusal to get to the bottom of the NBPP case:
On July 16, her colleagues on the Commission gave her a chance to put her money where her mouth is. They voted to ask the Justice Department for the testimony of Christopher Coates, the guy Thernstrom told NRO readers she’d “love to hear first-hand” from. The request is set forth in a letter sent yesterday to Attorney General Holder, signed by Commission Chair Gerald Reynolds. This short letter can be read in its entirety here, and Jen Rubin has posted the relevant parts of it at Contentions. But to put the letter’s requests in the words Thernstrom used, the Commission would like to ask Coates (a) “what Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes actually said about the Civil Rights Division’s enforcement priorities” (remember, that’s the thing Thernstrom told NRO readers “the world deserves to know”); and (b) “whether the Obama DOJ has a policy of offering protections for black voters but not white ones.”
Yet, at the July 16 hearing, Dr. Thernstrom refused to support the Commission’s request for this testimony. As Pete Kirsanow wrote in his post, replying specifically to Thernstrom’s claim that she would “join [her] colleagues in welcoming further testimony” from Coates and others with relevant knowledge of DOJ’s civil rights enforcement policy:
This is news to the other members of the Commission. On July 16, a majority of Commissioners approved a motion to once again request that the Justice Department produce the very witnesses that Thernstrom now claims she is interested in hearing from. The motion was crafted in a manner to circumvent the Justice Department’s year-long refusal to produce such witnesses.
Thernstrom refused to support the motion. [Emphasis in original.]
I find this jaw-dropping. I do not know Dr. Thernstrom — we’ve been introduced once, I think — but I have always admired her work. Consequently, it pains me to note that her responsive essay, which NRO published on July 27, was obviously written several days after the July 16 Commission meeting at which she would not support the motion to ask DOJ for the pertinent testimony.
Wow.
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I wonder if Holder will get involved with this one “WHITE MALE ASSAULTS BLACK MALE WITH HIS FACE”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0728101rap1.html
President Bush also sank the Titanic, blew up the Hindenberg, caused the 12 plauges of Egypt, started the Civil War,……
But he did not or ever think to say this:
“President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are “sort of a mongrel people.”
“I mean we’re all kinds of mixed up,” Obama said. “That’s actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it.”
I actually am speechless, but perhaps the libtards will find a way to blame this on Bush as well.
Methinks they are probably sitting around telling each other, “Pull my finger!”
On July 29th, 2010 at 12:23 pm, tre said:
President Bush also sank the Titanic, blew up the Hindenberg, caused the 12 plauges of Egypt, started the Civil War,……
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And killed Kenny.
…invented DDT to kill off the world’s wildlife, is melting the ice caps while simultaneously creating the coming ice age, and was and will be the cause of every natural disaster in the last and next 2000 years.
I take offense & am thinking of a lawsuit. 1) he called me a ‘mongrel’ and 2) says that biracial people are more intelligent than I.
The kid is lucky this white racist didn’t gouge his thumbs using his eye or groin him on the knee!
What he meant to say was, the right to vote is sacrosanct – unless you are a “cracker” who intends to vote for anyone other than Obama.
Who cares whether the Bush Admin chose to pursue a civil rather than criminal case against the NBP thugs – it was the current admin that dropped the case, and, if one believes the testimony of one J. Christian Adams, did so for racial reasons – on this DOJ’s watch, it is not possible for blacks to violate the rights of whites.
Hatred last a while in people … How do you think Obowma was elected? By an electorate of useful idiots, blinded by hate, all instilled by the sycophant media.
Anyone know of a slimeball bigger than Leahy? I don’t.
Kenny who? Hope it wasn’t Kenny G.
Actually, I can think of a lot of them!! Too many to list here. Just start with the entire Congress and the Obama administration all the way to the top, for starters.
Leahy’s blaming “partisan advocacy cable and radio shows” (Fox & Rush) was priceless! So original and fresh an idea that I cannot understand why other Democrats have failed to use it. (Sarc/)
On related a point, Kirsten Powers and the other Lefty pundits at FNC ( Alan Colmes and the like) regularly argue that no voters were intimidated by the NBPP because complaints remain to be filed; however, what about the poll watchers?
In my state, poll watchers observe in the districts where they themselves vote.
Thus shouldn’t the harassment charges filed by the poll watchers count as direct voter intimidation?
I just wonder how many here actually think that this bho and team will do anything to the black panthers? It is like everything else they do, it is someone else to blame and stall to hope it goes away and people will forget about it. I have to say, I really appreciate Issa for all he trying to do.
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Which is a bald faced lie. Complaints were filed; one of them by an ex Clinton appointee and supporter.
“There are still inequalities out there. There’s still discrimination out there,” Obama said. “But we’ve made progress.”
Since his mouth was moving, you know he was lying.
There is more discrimination in law and regulation under Obama and the Deemocrats than ever before, and it is TOTALITARIAN (i.e., “comprehensive”).
Leahy is just a Collectivist enabler for Black Liberation
TheologyApplication.Somewhat on topic, HA has that sherrod gal is going to sue Andrew Breitbart. This should be good getting what this gal thinks about a lighter shade of human beings.
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A few weeks ago I heard someone mention a report of two elderly ladies turning from that polling center when they saw the two men in NBPP garb. Does anyone know if this was ever proven true or not?
Are those typical white people? I know my heritage. PS – I even know the name of the hospital where I was born.
We already know that…
http://hindenblog1.blogspot.com/2010/07/burn-sherrods-further-display-of-true.html
And we know what her hubby thinks, too…
http://hindenblog1.blogspot.com/2010/07/burn-tell-me-if-you-think-this-is.html
But I volunteer to hold Sherrod’s coat.
Please, please, please keep this story in the public eye…!!!!
I have read reliable accounts that there were at least three people who have made formal statements that they turned away from voting.
I have heard so many of our right-wing talk show hosts now arguing vehemently against the “blame Bush” argument, the “race card” and other stupid progressive talking points. The more we call these morons on their stupid answers, the more chance we have to stop it. Many of the libs are starting to look sheepish when they say those things, and if they are chastized for it, they will eventually stop. I love how Laura Ingraham stops these idiots cold when they try to spin. The other night, she stopped a liberal almost immediately and said, “Sorry for interrupting you, but you told three complete lies in the first 30 seconds of your talk. I can’t let that go by.” Bravo!!!
On July 29th, 2010 at 12:54 pm, walterc said:
And killed Kenny.
Kenny who? Hope it wasn’t Kenny G.
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South Park reference; a character named Kenny died in every episode, after which another character would yell, “Oh, my God, you killed Kenny!”
Kenny G lives to play his sax another day.
If you don’t KNOW that the 2008 election was the most corrupt and illegitimate election in U.S. history, you are a koolaid drinking dumbass. Even Hillary supporters know they were screwed in the primaries by Obamathugs, aka blacks and seiu. But the Republicans were screwed by the Florida primary Obama plan to take away that primary which then allowed all those democrats to vote for their candidate McCain. The evidence of voter fraud in nearly every state is rampant, Franken is but one example which is documented.
New Yorkers voting in Ohio, New Yorkers voting in Florida, Californians voting in Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon. Illinois sending it’s welfare minions into neighboring states to vote. If we don’t start enforcing our laws, we are doomed to turn into a banana republic with el heffe for life running the country. This crook in chief showed us that it can be done in 2008.
On July 29th, 2010 at 1:05 pm, Flyoverman said:
On related a point, Kirsten Powers and the other Lefty pundits at FNC ( Alan Colmes and the like) regularly argue that no voters were intimidated by the NBPP because complaints remain to be filed; however, what about the poll watchers?
Which is a bald faced lie. Complaints were filed; one of them by an ex Clinton appointee and supporter.
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Not to mention the poll-watcher (and staunch Democrat) who quoted one of the NBP thugs as calling him a “cracker” and warning him he was “about to find out what it’s like to be ruled by the black man”.
Notice, according to them, Obama would not be our duly elected President; he would be our “ruler”, presumably by force if need be.
Using the adage “Wisdom is the reward of a lifetime of listening” it is apparent that the electorate of this country has spent their lifetime talking instead of listening. That’s why these fools are in office!
After reading this letter, it confirms why I could never be a politician: I just dont have that amount of bulls**t in me.
Bulls don’t have that amount of BS in them…
Bull’s bulls**t doesn’t have that much bullsh**t in it. This is war-grade material.