Serious Question

10 Comments

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   Bazooka Joe on June 13, 2012 at 6:47 pm

   After checking the relevant news stories to see what you’re talking about, the Dimon thing was a thoroughly bipartisan affair, so there’s that.

   But the Holder thing would never happen to a nonwhite AG, so there’s that.

   It is a tough question. I guess my vote is for Holder. I wonder how many billions, short of abject bankruptcy, your firm would have to blow before Congress feels safe bashing you? 2008 and 2009 were apparently a lifetime ago.

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     BooMan on June 13, 2012 at 7:03 pm

     you have to admit, Jamie’s presidential cuff-links were a nice touch.  

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   mainsailset on June 13, 2012 at 7:04 pm

   two sides, same coin.

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   lamh31 on June 13, 2012 at 7:22 pm

   the Dimon hearing I fully expected.  Wall Street rulz the pols, but the Holder hearing was nothing short of a high class lymching.

   But I at least gotta give it to Holder that he willing to defend himself and not let the GOP Senators just say boo and he says nothing.
   Senator John Cornyn demands AG Holder resign, Holder gives epic smack-down response

   Yesterday, during his ninth appearance before Congress regarding the “Fast and Furious” debacle (read more about that HERE), Senator John Cornyn, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, saying he hoped President Obama would replace him…

   So after Coryn’s bit, Holder’s responds

   Holder: With all due respect, senator, there is so much that is factually wrong with the premises that you started your statement with, it’s almost breathtaking in its inaccuracy, but, I’ll simply leave it at that…

   If you want to talk about Fast and Furious, I’m the attorney general that put an end to the misguided tactics that were used in Fast and Furious. An attorney general whom I suppose you would hold in higher regard was briefed on these kinds of tactics in an operation called “Wide Receiver” and did nothing to stop them. Nothing. Three hundred guns, at least, “walked” in that instance.

   I’m also the attorney general who called on an inspector general to look into this matter, to investigate this matter. I’m also the attorney general who made personnel changes at ATF and in the U.S. Attorneys office that was involved, have overseen the changes of processes and procedures within ATF to make sure that this doesn’t happen ever again.

   So I don’t have any intention of resigning. I heard the White House press officer say yesterday that the president has absolute confidence in me. I don’t have any reason to believe that in fact is not the case.

   And in terms of, you know, what is it that we have turned over to Congress in this regard, let’s put something on the record here. … We have collected data from 240 custodians, we have processed millions of electronic records, looked at over 140,000 documents, turned over 7,600 pages. Over the course of 46 separate productions, we have made available people from the department at the highest levels to be interviewed.
   And I’ve also said…to the extent that all of that is not enough to satisfy the concerns… I am willing to sit down and talk about the provision of more materials. I have sent letters in that regard, the deputy attorney general has sent letters … and have not had responses. Which leads me to believe that the desire here is not for an accommodation but for a political point-making. And that is the kind of thing that, you know, you and and your side, I guess, have the ability to do if that’s what you want to do. It is the kind of thing that I think turns people off about Washington. While we have very serious problems, we still have this political gamesmanship.

   That taste in Coryn’s mouth should be blood from the slap across his face by AG Holder.

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     lamh31 on June 13, 2012 at 7:25 pm

     this is why the Senate is prepared to hold AG Holder in contempt.  He’s not willing to act like the “yessir massa” folk they like.  He’s acting more like the “uppity negro” variety and those Southern just ain’t having that from some….lawyer doncha know.

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       BooMan on June 13, 2012 at 7:49 pm

       it’s the House that is considering contempt.

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   Brendan Skwire on June 13, 2012 at 8:09 pm

   That’s like asking which steaming hot pile of fly-covered, disease-ridden, maggot-riddled corn-crusted shit tastes worse.

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   americanforliberty on June 13, 2012 at 10:10 pm

   I say Dimon,because it takes a lot of campaign money to get a Senator to ask how he (Dimon) would regulate banks after losing 2 to 4 Billion dollars.

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   rikyrah on June 14, 2012 at 9:17 am

   Holder, hands down.

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     utried on June 14, 2012 at 9:26 am

     Agree, because a big donor will be treated well.