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Paul Ryan: Eric Holder must go over Fast and Furious
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees with presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s call for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, or for President Barack Obama to fire him, over Operation Fast and Furious, a Ryan spokesman told The Daily Caller.
“The congressman agrees with the governor,” Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck told The DC on Sunday, referring to Mitt Romney’s call for Holder’s resignation or termination over the gunwalking scandal last December.
“Either Mr. Holder himself should resign, or the president should ask for his resignation or remove him,” Romney said in December 2011. “It’s unacceptable for him to continue in that position now given the fact that he has misled Congress and entirely botched the investigation of the Fast and Furious program.”
Ryan’s call for Holder’s ouster over Fast and Furious comes a day after he told a sportsmen’s group that gun owners should be worried about Obama trying to infringe on their Second Amendment rights if he is re-elected. Speaking about Fast and Furious specifically, Ryan said at the Saturday event that such an operation “would never occur under a Romney-Ryan administration,” according to CBS News,
Ryan now becomes the 131st House GOP member to demand Holder’s resignation over the scandal.
Fast and Furious was a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, overseen by Holder’s Department of Justice. It sent thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers — people who purchased guns in the United States with the known intention of illegally trafficking them somewhere else.
Fast and Furious guns were used to kill U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on Dec. 14, 2010, in Peck Canyon, Ariz.
Carlos The Jackal
October 1st, 2012
Not just resign, prosecuted!
Stranded in Sonoma
October 1st, 2012
Democrat preezies hold on to their AGs like Mooshell holding onto a tamale at a Weight Watchers meeting. 0bama and Clinton knew that they were going to need an AG that would cover their ass because they were going to openly violate so many laws. Why do you think Janet Reno was AG for 8 years?
CrustyB
October 1st, 2012
So Ryan wants to put a Hello Kitty t-shirt on him, eh?
Mountain Dog
October 1st, 2012
A jail cell or a coffin would be true Justice for Eric.
BILL
October 1st, 2012
Resign?
He will miss his chance to be “Frogged Marched” out of office on his way to jail !
Corky
October 1st, 2012
The Univision report on F&F was devastating but again–nothing will be done.
Death_By_Farts
October 1st, 2012
Put him in a windowless room with me….It’ll all be over soon.
RANDO
October 1st, 2012
I want this bastard in prison!
Bob M.
October 1st, 2012
What does Holder have ON Obama, that makes him “untouchable?”
Pics from INSIDE Man’s Country, perhaps?
PATH
October 1st, 2012
Apparently Univision’s show also spoke about ATF supplying guns to Chicago’s gangs. Read today where the mayor is asking “twitter” for suggestions to help with the gun problem. He should just call Obama to take back the guns.
whom
October 1st, 2012
PROSECUTE for high crimes and treason. Along with several others!
scr_north
October 1st, 2012
Hi all. Holder isn’t going to resign nor is Obama going to fire him. What will happen is when Obama loses (knock on wood) he’ll get a pardon from Obama just as Obama is leaving the Whitehouse with the big screen tv that he took from the situation room (Michelle is already packing up silverwear). Holder knows where the bodies are buried and the lefties can’t risk him cutting a deal to stay out of prison and I suspect the GOP rino’s wouldn’t want him on the stand either. The only way this changes is if the GOP wins damn near every Senate seat and a pile of additional Congress seats and that the winners are mostley real conservatives with values.
Joe
October 1st, 2012
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Joe
October 1st, 2012
Pardon me, I was gonna say “No sympathy for Holder.”
sTevo
October 1st, 2012
Send him to do time in Mexico.
Damn Lawyers
October 2nd, 2012
Love that picture of Holder. That’s the look he gets on his face when the sound of prison cell doors slamming shut echos through the cell blocks of his mind.
Damn Lawyers
October 2nd, 2012
Just had to do it, a song for Eric:
Everybody’s cussing at me.
Everybody’s cussing at me.
I don’t hear a word they’re yelling,
Only the echoes of my mind.
People groping, sharing,
I can’t see their faces,
Only the cold steel of their knives.
I’m going where the sun don’t shine
Thru’ agonizing pain,
Going where orange is the color of my clothes,
Prison food is good for breaking wind,
Sitting on my pimp’s knees
And skipping around the cell block like I’m stoned.