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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:18 PM
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I simply think it's time for Eric Holder to go.
He is NOT running the Justice department to protect Americans but rather to protect big business. When Republicans get outraged because of handing of guns over to criminals and persons needing medical marijuana are being treated as criminals, I think we need to start the call of his firing.

You know how to get in touch with your Congress critter.


For the people.
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uponit7771 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:19 PM
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1. Conservatives think Holder needs to go too, that makes me want to wait. KKKons are fuckin stupid
Edited on Wed Oct-12-11 12:20 PM by uponit7771
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:22 PM
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2. One of the Conservatool commentators from the WaPo was calling for Holder's head
yesterday. Seems like noone likes this guy.

:shrug:

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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:30 PM
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3. He refused to prosecute Booshe and Chinney, that alone should have been enough to oust him.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:47 PM
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8. Obama does. nt
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Maven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:32 PM
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4. Holder needs to go, Geithner needs to go, Monsanto Vilsack needs to go...
It's a long list.
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:42 PM
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6. Now that would be change I could believe in.
NOT holding my breath...
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Owlet Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 01:55 PM
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16. Dump the whole cabinet
Before the election. Tomorrow would be a good time. And replace Biden on the ticket with Hillary.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 05:03 PM
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28. The guy who appointed them all needs to go.
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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:35 PM
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5. I agree. Fast and Furious was outrageously stupid. He should take the fall. (nt)
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:43 PM
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7. He should have gone before he came.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 01:02 PM
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11. Agreed
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PufPuf23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:52 PM
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9. Eric Holder should never had been appointed in the first place.
One of Holder's accomplishments is representing Chiquita in a guilty plea for supporting murdurous paramilitaries in Latin America.

POTUS Obama and DOJ Holder have failed to uphold the rule of law and, worse, are selective in enforcement.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 12:54 PM
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10. Arne, too...
I cannot imagine both surviving a second term...
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 01:47 PM
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12. They'll get jobs working for their masters.....
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 01:51 PM
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13. Duncan is simply carrying out President Obama's education agenda
Edited on Wed Oct-12-11 01:51 PM by Freddie Stubbs
If President Obama were to replace him, it would only be someone else implementing a different agenda.

If you don't like the current education policy, your options are changing the President's mind or changing Presidents.

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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 01:54 PM
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14. I think this is the other way around
I think it was Duncan that sold Obama a bill of goods, not Obama having Duncan institute his policies. Duncan was advocating his ideas long before Obama had any clout.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 02:27 PM
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22. Then what you are saying is that Obama is weak willed
and does not know how to gather advisors around him that share his principles
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 03:24 PM
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24. No,
He accepted Duncan's projections and plans because they worked in Chicago, so he's gone nationally.

The gathering of advisors I'll give you, he is terrible at that...I can't think of many of his choices I would have gone with.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 05:05 PM
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29. I think Obama's advisors share his principles.
One or two bad eggs might be a fluke, but ...
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 01:55 PM
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15. As someone who personally knows the man
I couldn't even begin to tell you all how wrong you are.

Continue on with the hate fest against this and democrats. It's a real winning hand. Keep at it. You'll get what you want soon enough.
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LooseWilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 02:02 PM
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19. Well, now I'm convinced...
If the hate fest will get us what we want soon enough... then Holder needs to be fucking gone!!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 02:07 PM
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20. Eric Holder is a disaster and he can't go soon enough. n/t
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 02:28 PM
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23. Then you have an obligation to inform the masses here
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demmiblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 05:06 PM
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32. Lol!
:rofl:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 05:41 PM
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33. I AM A FUCKING DEMOCRAT, been since 1969
Edited on Wed Oct-12-11 05:42 PM by DainBramaged
I WORKED for the Clinton campaign in NJ in 1992, I WORKED for his re-election in 1996,

DO NOT PREACH TO US THE RIGHT OF CENTER TAKE WHAT WE GIVE YOU OR ELSE BULLSHIT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS FEEDING YOU.



And one last thing. I have been called a Union shill, and I am proud of that label, I would NEVER want to be called a political shill.....
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 05:50 PM
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34. How does your personal knowledge of the individual change his professional actions?
It isn't unusual for personal affection and/or friendship to result in tolerance that goes beyond what would be accepted from a stranger.

Your response also is snide and lacking in wisdom (or at least such is implied) as you indicate/hint/allude that the OP wishes for TeaPubliKlans when the reality is they don't like the job your buddy is doing.
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Admiral Loinpresser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 04:17 AM
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35. As someone who personally knows his policies,
I say "judge the tree by the fruit it bears."

He has time to persecute medical marijuana dispensers, but no time to prosecute Wall Street criminals. Do you know something in the public record we don't?
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 05:15 AM
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+1
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 05:15 AM
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38. +1
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 05:18 AM
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39. Ask him how he sleeps at night.
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pecwae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 07:28 AM
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40. Isn't that special.
And dissing DUers into the bargain makes this reply such a winner.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 01:57 PM
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17. He's been bowing down to his coporate masters and now his coporate masters
want him out...he should have seen this failed game plan because now the Dem base won't rally behind him...he's toast.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 01:59 PM
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18. What ever happened to that News Corp investigation?
They sure found that celebrity hacker fast. Why are they so slow going after News Corp?
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 05:06 PM
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31. Because they have to invent plots so they can bomb Iran...nt
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creon Donating Member (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 02:10 PM
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21. no
In one word: no.
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Tatiana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 03:26 PM
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25. Eric Holder is only following the agenda and tone set by the WH.
I have my issues with him, but I don't believe the number of prosecutions (or lack thereof) are solely a result of his lack of willpower.

The buck stops at the top. Direct your disgust towards the correct boss.
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Dragonfli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:37 PM
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26. Yes and no, I agree entirely that the agenda is set by the WH, but they were chosen because they
have/had similar goals. They contribute to the cause by making suggestions and doing at least some ear whispering for their own personal money daddies, in short they are all just as guilty and of the same mind.

They are stronger, more capable, and more damaging as a dedicated group than they would be as simply yes men to one guy with bad Republican ideological goals.
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 05:12 AM
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37. I don't believe they have similar goals. Holder has gone toe to toe with Obama, but Obama
gets the final say. If Obama were to tell Holder to go after bank barons, I bet we'd see charges filed in less than a week.
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Dragonfli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:40 PM
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27. K&R I agree completely DB /nt
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mfcorey1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 05:05 PM
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30. Not before he stops this voter supression effort!
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Firebrand Gary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 04:48 AM
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36. NO WAY! We would never get confirmation on another AG.
Holder needs to stay focused on all these stats trying to take away peoples voting rights.
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