Its been quite a week for news. Everything happened at a fast and furious pace which always means a mixed news bag. Some events are so large they can eclipse what would otherwise be startling headlines. That’s why the powers that be plan things to shake-out the way they do. Eric Holder is being crucified as Obama’s proxy by a bunch of bullies headed by Darrell Issa who claims he wants to get to the bottom of the ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-walking scheme; but without so much as taking a peek at the program’s origins. The question is: who knew what when about US agents gun-walking arms to the Mexican drug cartel and how did a border agent wind-up dead? I don’t know, but maybe Issa should start by asking the Bush Administration? Then all heads for news turned, when Arizona’s ‘Papers Please’ law was struck-down by the Supreme Court; leaving Eric Holder’s trials and tribulations to smolder on metaphorical page six. Good call on the part of the Supreme Court….
Meanwhile, Darrel Issa is Eric Holder’s smarmy and unbalanced inquisitor grilling the Attorney General on the floor of the House of Representatives all week long and all the week before that…. and all the week before that…. Ad nauseum. Issa bears a striking resemblance to the reptilian Grand Vizir in Walt Disney’s Aladdin. The man has a cruel and unlikable face. I suppose he can’t help that, but he can help playing to ‘type’. Issa is lubricating the House of Reptilians with his own brand of McCarthy’s Famous Political Snake Oil in an effort to draw attention away from his own objectives to curtail citizen’s rights to vote (which has no connection to Fast and Foolishness other than serving as a diversionary tactic). Things get so layered in politics…. When suddenly Nora Ephron died and there was a legitimate period where everyone had to catch our collective breaths to respectfully laugh and cry. And Eric Holder remained sitting in exile on metaphorical page six. No one was talking about the ‘Fast and Furious’ program or how it was implemented during the Bush Administration. Darrell Issa wants to get to the heart of the matter, but without ever venturing back to the daze of George Dubbuah Bush. He wants to find wrong-doing on Holder’s watch even if he has to plant or fabricate his own evidence to do so. We’re living through a truth be damned kind of decade….
Then the Supreme Court upheld Obama’s ‘Affordable Care Act’ and everything ground to a screeching halt. Even before people had time to tweet, Rand Paul made one of his customary poorly thought out comments: “Just Because SCOTUS Says It’s Constitutional, Doesn’t Make It So.” Actually it does, but when you have a barely nodding acquaintance with truth and reality, and you’re Rand Paul, you also have full license to be your father’s son. Of course Romney called a press conference and said something but no one was interested in hearing it. Nor should they be. Some people tuned in to watch John Boehner bungling out a word or two, but only to see if he’d cry. Pundits pontificated and purists of polar opposites retreated to their prospective camps – but in the final analysis, the Affordable Care Act took ownership of the week. That’s when America’s first black Attorney General, Eric Holder was voted in ‘contempt of Congress’ – straight down party lines by House Republicans over strong objections from Democrats who shouted ‘SHAME’ repeatedly on the House steps. This historic censure happened largely because of Holder’s own honest willingness to cooperate with his inquisitors. After all, the program was busted on Holder’s watch – not implemented…! Unfortunately the House of Representatives fell down a rabbit hole an election or two back…. And Eric Holder still sits metaphorically on page six as a token gesture of Republican tribal sacrifice. He’ll survive this faux-scandal intact. He’s from Chicago.
- Dissociated Press, 6/29/2012
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/?iid=HP_River