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Correction: It is unconditional war for the Commielibs, but it is only aKabuki dance for the GOP. THhe GOP is hoping that by sending a signal they can avoid a war. If you had to bet Boehner or Obama backs down where would put your money? How many times before today did you think "the GOP finally stand firm", and when did that happen?

The contempt charge is nothing but a mark put in Holder's permanent record. Because conservatives feel like the mildest disapproval is as bad as a public flogging they think threatening to show mild disapproval will be felt as a flogging by the Commielibs. All Obama and Holder have to do to weather this is ignore it and tell all reporters "no access" to anyone asking about it.

You will know the GOP is serious when they pass a bill to defund Holder'salary and expenses by a veto-proof majority

Quite frankly, concerning this situation, I could give a rat’s ass about Obama’s hubris and what the GOP should or shouldn’t do. Fucking guns were allowed to flow to Mexico and a border patrol agent was killed, not to mention the Mexican’s also killed. For what!?! (Let’s not forget that important piece of the puzzle). By fucking whom!?!

Go ahead Barry, whip out the executive privilege. “The truth has no agenda” (As someone with ties to Beck says). You will burn, you little asshole. Congratulation you’re making Nixon and that hillbilly from Arkansas look like amateurs. Pfff, a break in and some blowjobs look pretty goddamn tame now don’t they folks?

Finally all those Right Wing Extremists meetings every other Tuesday night are paying off.

NPR needs to pay their internet bill, so the service gets turned back on: while the story is all over the blogs, they apparently haven't heard the the AG Of the United States is up on contempt of Congress charges. You snooze, you lose, NPR.

Obama and Holder are particularly contemptable, but presidents have been ignoring the Constitution in a big way since the administration of John Adams. Usually, but not always, they use the crisis du jour as the excuse.

Obama learned about Attorney General As Firewall from Clinton, and he learned about Signing Statements from Bush. There isn't much new here.

Quent,

What Constitution provision, federal statute, or common-law principle explicitly prohibits signing statements?

And how does a signing statement compare to a president invoking executive privilege on something he (supposedly) had nothing to do with? In a situation that his AG lied (need the timeline?) about?

Here’s Holder’s speech from 2009! Where he mentions Fast & Furious. And he just recently finally admitted he knew about it?

http://sadhillnews.com/2012/06/20/fast-and-furious-shocker-cha-right-obama-asserts-executive-privilege

Oh my, those wicked signing statements. Please provide the signing statement that resulted in someone’s death.

BTW, signing statements go back father than G.W. Bush, nice attempt to deflect away from Obama.

Yeah, all things are equal…except when they’re not.

I don't recall anyone mentioning signing statements. The term is executive privilege. Eisenhower created them, they are extra-constitutional. Only those powers explicitly given to a branch by the constitution are legal. I'm not saying Obama shouldn't use it, I'm merely positing it reeks of desperation. Not unlike reducing executive privilege, and the imperial authority that term suggests, to the more plaisant "signing statements."

Vel,

Look two comments up from yours....Quent's...