No Confidence List Vastly Grows for DOJ Holder

March 19, 2012
The Daily Caller

The no confidence list continues to vastly grow and Minnesota Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack became the latest U.S. House member to declare his lack of confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious in the wake of a newly resurfaced video in which Holder says anti-gun advocates should “brainwash” the American people to oppose gun ownership.


Cravaack told The Daily Caller on Monday that he has signed onto House Resolution 490, the official resolution of “no confidence” in Holder because of Fast and Furious. Cravaack becomes the 122nd U.S. House member to sign the resolution, call for Holder’s resignation or firing over the scandal or both.


“This gun walking program has resulted in the death of innocent civilians, as well as the death of dedicated Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry,” Cravaack told TheDC. “Attorney General Holder and the Administration’s obstinate refusal to comply, and their apparent efforts to whitewash facts surrounding Congress’ investigation is unacceptable."

"Enough is enough — Americans deserve honesty and accountability. Since Holder has broken the law, he should be brought to justice quickly.”


Over the weekend, Breitbart.com discovered a 1995 CSPAN video in which Holder — then the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — advocated using anti-smoking campaigns as a model for an anti-gun campaign.


“What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we’ve changed our attitudes about cigarettes,” Holder said.


Holder explained that he wanted to use influential figures like then-Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, as well as widely watched TV shows like “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and “Martin,” to forward his anti-gun campaign. He sought to push that same agenda through public schools as well, “every day, every school, at every level.”


Holder said these resources would be the driving force behind a campaign to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”