You know, I-- I've lost confidence in the attorney general a long time ago over his cover-up over the fast and furious investigation. And the bogus claim of executive privilege when Congress tried to get to the bottom of that, which in part resulted in him being the first attorney general held in contempt of Congress. I think it's past time for him to go and for the President to appoint somebody who the public can have confidence in.
I was struck by Cornyn inserting the Fast and Furious operation into his answer because it’s not the first time I’ve noticed a Republican, questioned about one of the Administration’s current problems, bringing up Fast and Furious. I hadn’t really been paying attention - although I will going forward hence the title of this post - so I can’t cite previous instances but it always seems to be done in passing. I don’t know what it means, if anything, but it’s an interesting way to keep an old, presumably dead scandal in front of the public.
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A side question: when did the Fast and Furious scandal die?
What was its resolution?
Eric Hines
There was no resolution that I'm aware of but there also does not seem to be any ongoing interest in it. The media is not covering it - even the right-leaning blogs don't mention it often - and the public is not crying out to know more about it. To me, that equals death insofar as public interest is concerned.
The next major move concerning F&F is the sanction due Holder for his contempt citation. There's not a lot to report on that, yet, so perhaps generously, another possibility is simply that those who report on such things aren't wasting bandwidth reporting on "no change." What'll interest me here is whether they start speaking up when "no change" becomes stall.
A third possibility concerns the Obama bombshells of using government offices to overtly attack disfavored groups of Americans, getting caught lying about their covering up their murderous failure in Benghazi, their attack on the AP, their naked equation of seeking out things on which to report with criminal activity. There's only so much room on a newspaper's front page above the fold--or even on the NYT's 18th page below the fold. A news hour, whether on the NLMSM's broadcast TV or on cable TV, only has 60 minutes in it. The blogosphere faces similar constraints on it Web pages.
Even Fox News currently is obsessing--nationwide--on the tornadoes and damage in OK and KS. In their case I wonder if they've been cowed by the attack on Rosen or if they're using the storm to take a break from the scandals so as better to keep them fresh.
But none of that adds up to F&F being a dead issue in my mind.
[sigh] Seems we disagree about everything these days.... [g]
Eric Hines
There's nothing wrong with disagreeing. If we all agreed on everything, we wouldn't need politics in the first place.
So, do it my way, and let's eliminate politics.
I actually came back to whack a dead horse one more time: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/20/watchdog-report-says-doj-official-retaliated-against-furious-whistle-blower/?test=latestnews
Eric Hines
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