Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
June 21, 2012
US Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s cheese has finally slipped off its
cracker. Her elevator is officially not rising to the top floor. She is without
a doubt one taco shy of a full combination plate.
To understand what brought on this barrage of
“platitudes” toward Pelosi, all one need do is listen to the absolutely
convoluted speech she gave on Thursday in response to the decision made
Wednesday by the Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee to
charge Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress.
“They [the Republicans] are going after Eric Holder
because he is trying to overturn voter suppression in the states. This is the
plan,” said Pelosi, the House Minority Leader.
In continuing with what she called a “theory,” Pelosi
made the illogical and emotional leap from a legitimate charge against a
stonewalling Holder, who refuses to provide a congressional committee with the
necessary documents to investigate the Fast and Furious gun scandal, to the
accusation that the GOP is hell bent on stifling the vote of liberals and
minorities.
“These very same people are holding him in contempt are
part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote. They are closely allied with
those who are suffocating the system – unlimited special interests – secret
money – and they are poisoning the debate. This is no accident. This is their
plan,” said Pelosi in a rambling finger-pointing screed.
US Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) called Pelosi’s comments
“beneath the office of Congress,” and “mind-numbingly stupid.”
There must be a separation between Holder’s involvement
in the Fast and Furious scandal cover-up and the Holder that is attempting to
prevent states from performing their duties of purging their voter rolls of
those who should not be permitted to vote. In both cases Holder is wrong. Both
cases are supremely significant, but the two are unrelated.
The case before the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee pertains to the Fast and Furious gun scandal that put thousands of
guns in the hands of Mexicans – criminals, drug dealers and cartel leaders and
other miscreant thugs – from the United States government. Both AG Holder and
Barack Obama claimed no knowledge of such a transaction. Holder continued his
denials when questioned about who did
have such knowledge, who did allow
for such a criminal operation to occur. Taking a page out of the Bill Clinton
playbook, Holder continued to deny, deny, deny.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is
chaired by US Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). His repeated pressing for the thousands
upon thousands of documents related to Fast and Furious were arrogantly
rejected time and again by Holder, who not only owes answers to the committee,
the American people, but to Josephine and Ken Terry.
Josephine and Ken Terry are the parents of the late Brian
Terry, a heroic border agent murdered by guns linked to the Fast and Furious
scandal in 2010. Two guns found at his body are linked to those firearms
released into the hands of nefarious sources in the Obama administration’s Fast
and Furious program. This administration is responsible for the murder of
border agent Brian Terry.
“They’re lying and hiding it,” said Ken Terry, interviewed
by Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Compounding the scandal, Obama declared Executive
Privilege, further impeding the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s
ability to collect the documents that Holder is obligated to present.
“The decision to invoke Executive Privilege is an
admission that White House officials were involved in decisions that misled the
Congress and have covered up the truth,” said Speaker of the House John Boehner
(R-OH).
Meanwhile, the flip side of the Pelosi ramblings and
illogical accusations, claim it is the GOP that is attempting to suppress votes
by performing legal operations of purging the rolls. It is not, as Pelosi said,
“suffocating the system,” to ensure voter fairness by preventing illegals from
casting votes that would dilute the power of votes cast by citizens. Nor is it
“a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote” when certain states are purging the names of the deceased to ensure
their names are not used by people committing voter fraud by casting a ballot
in those names.
It is neither a scheme to suppress the vote nor a plan to
suffocate the system to require ALL voters to present a photo ID at the polling
places – something Holder has been fighting calling such a requirement racist.
This is simply a scheme by the Obama administration to
deflect from the disastrous economy, high rates of unemployment, high misery
index, ever-rising gas prices and an unwillingness to do what is right by the
American people.
The Fast and Furious scandal and subsequent cover-up is
making Watergate look like child’s play and the “third rate burglary” as had
been described as for the past 40 years. Watergate was wrong; but nobody died.
Clearly, there is blood on the hands of the Obama
administration. Where is the openness and transparency promised by Obama ad
nauseum?
Sanford D. Horn is
a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.
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