The Holder Hold-Up--The Real Reason?

[tekisui]

Why is Specter holding up Holder?

He admits that Holder will be seated as AG, but insists on standing in the way. WHY???

[sutz12]

1. Other.....all of the above.

:shrug:

Kind of like the 'Repugs suck, don't need a reason' one, though. :)

[stopbush]

2. The Rs have to challenge a few nominees to appease the crazies,

so they chose to make trouble for Hillary and Holder. They just want to be able to say that they weren't rubber stamps.

[Kitty Herder]

3. Totally off topic, I love your avatar. n/t

[tekisui]

4. Thank you!

Call Me by My True Names

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to
Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea
pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and
loving.

I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my
hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my
people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.

My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all
walks of life.
My pain if like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh

______________________________________________________________________

We are all one.

[robinlynne]

5. and i think I read there is a statute of limitations on illegal spying about to run out?

[tekisui]

6. I don't think that carries the 5 year statute of limitations that the others

mentioned do. I could be wrong.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. I pick 1 and 3, but have a question.

If Specter is trying to make a backroom deal, wouldn't that be unethical?

[TheKentuckian]

8. and Republiscum have what problem with that?

They're probably the least ethical in history. The Nazis were more evil but probably had more integrity.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. True, but I thought I'd ask anyway. n/t

[DKRC]

10. I'm with sutz12 ~ All of the above

Plus some we aren't aware of yet.

:shrug:

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. One and Three

Which makes it a magic bullet that kills both things.