Thread: Eric Holder has got to go

Eric Holder has got to go


By:Gregory Kane | Examiner Columnist | 08/03/11 8:05 PM.

Let's impeach Eric Holder. Journalistic protocol requires that I use the phrase "U.S. Attorney General" in front of Holder's name. But I just can't.
Now I could use phrases like "pathetic excuse for an attorney general," or "so-called attorney general" or "bogus attorney general," but I won't go there.

I'll simply call Holder what he is: the worst attorney general in American history. And I thought former Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Janet Reno were bad.

My all-time candidate for worst U.S. attorney general ever was A. Mitchell Palmer, who was responsible for the notorious "Palmer Raids" of 1919, in which hundreds of suspected left-wingers were rounded up and imprisoned.

The Palmer Raids might arguably be called the most widespread violation of civil liberties in American history, but at least Palmer had an excuse: Someone tried to blow the guy up in his home.

Whatever bad or good might be said about Palmer, Ashcroft and Reno, at least they tried to uphold the law. Holder is cut from a different mold: He thinks it's his job to give aid and comfort to lawbreakers, to mollycoddle them, to hold their little hands and to pussyfoot when it comes to making them accountable for their criminality.

I'm referring, of course, to Holder's favorite bunch of lawbreakers: illegal immigrants. Or, as Holder, President Obama and their fellow party members would call them, "undocumented Democrats." (I'd like to thank Baltimore talk show host Bruce Elliott for that exquisite and oh-so-accurate term.)

Holder is at it again, this time using the weight of the Justice Department to challenge Alabama's new law that seeks to do what the Eric Holders of the country either can't or won't do: Make illegal immigrants accountable for their lawbreaking.

Arizona has a similar law, and Holder filed suit against that one as well. His justification, according to several news stories, is that immigration enforcement is the federal government's job.

It boggles the mind that Holder might have actually made that statement with a straight face. There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in this country. What is it about that figure that implies the federal government has even remotely done its job when it comes to enforcing immigration law?

Absolutely nothing. Alabama state Rep. Mickey Hammon, who sponsored the Alabama law that attempts to allow Alabamans to correct what the federal government won't, put it best in a news story that appeared on Fox News' website:

"The Obama administration and the federal bureaucrats have turned a blind eye toward the immigration issue and refuse to fulfill their constitutional duty to enforce laws already on the books," Hammon said.

"Now, they want to block our efforts to secure Alabama's borders and prevent our jobs and taxpayer dollars from disappearing into the abyss that illegal immigration causes," he said.

"Allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to run unchecked under the radar threatens our homeland security and insults those who come here legally."

Holder's selective targeting of Alabama and Arizona isn't the only reason he should get the old heave-ho. I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating:

By not hauling Maryland into court for allowing 350,000 illegal immigrants to renew their driver's licenses in a flagrant violation of the federal Real ID Act, Holder has politicized the Justice Department.

Not only has he politicized it, but he has also made the Justice Department a willing ally of, and advocate for, the nation's illegal immigrants, who are by definition lawbreakers.

The job of an attorney general is to enforce laws on the books, not protect the people who break them. Holder's got to go; if his boss protests, then maybe he needs to go, too.

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Eric Holder, Cultural Marxist Extraordinaire...

Has a nice ring and it fits that loser like a glove.