Holder Should Resign, but Obama Is the Problem
Holder Should Resign, but Obama Is the Problem
A prediction: there will be an effort by Team Obama to rally around Eric Holder, but before too long he will resign as attorney general. He'll do so because he's doing considerable, even durable, damage to the president–and the president, well-versed in the Chicago Way, will jettison Holder if he determines it's in his political interest.
It is.
The attorney general is being criticized, and being urged to resign, from those on both the left and the right. The House of Representative is considering looking into whether Mr. Holder committed perjury (he clearly misled Congress on his role in the James Rosen matter). And in the background of all this is the fact that Holder is a man of unusual incompetence.
Set aside Holder's record of pushing to reopen an investigation of CIA interrogators who had already been cleared by career prosecutors and wanting to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian court in Manhattan, both of which were busts (for more, see here); Mr. Holder can't even organize a mea culpa with the press without turning it into a controversy.
Now, I'd prefer for Mr. Holder to resign, if only because I'd prefer that a man who misled Congress regarding his role in secretly monitoring the private e-mails of Fox's James Rosen and for his role in the Fast and Furious operation (for which he was held in contempt of Congress)–a man who is self-righteous as well inept–not be attorney general of the United States. But whether Holder stays or goes is, if not exactly beside the point, not the central issue involved here.
What matters is that we have an administration that had contempt for the rule of law and believes it is right and proper to use the power of the federal government to target, intimidate, and silence its political opponents. That has been happening since nearly the beginning of the Obama Era. Eric Holder is not the generator of this culture of intimidation and corruption; he is merely one of its executioners. The real problem with the Obama administration begins at the top. Getting rid of Eric Holder may be a good idea. But it won't solve the deeper pathologies of this presidency.
Holder Should Resign, but Obama Is the Problem
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/31/holder-should-resign-but-obama-is-the-problem/
John Hames
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