Rep. Chris Van Hollen blasts the Republican move to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt over "Fast & Furious" documents. New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof and Washington Post Columnist Dana Milbank discuss.
The Republicans' crazy "Fast and Furious" conspiracy is starting to unravel and Democrats are pouncing.
Tonight, Ed has the latest on Darrell Issa’s political witch hunt with Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA).
The "Fast and Furious" controversy is so hot right now, Ed will ask our panel -- Keith Boykin, CNBC Contributor and Democratic Strategist, Susan Del Percio, Republican Strategist, MSNBC Contributor, and Catherine Crier, attorney and best-selling author of “Patriot Acts: What Americans Must do to Save the Republic” -- to weigh in on that, too.
As Republicans obsess over Attorney General Eric Holder, more than seven million college students are about to see their student loan rates double. But President Obama is keeping up the pressure.
Mitt Romney fails to lead on immigration yet again. Ed will have the latest on the Republican Dream Act nightmare with Chuck Rocha, Executive Director of the American Worker Latino Project.
The Romney campaign reportedly tells Florida Gov. Rick Scott to shut up about his state's rebounding economy. More proof that Republicans are rooting for failure? Ed will ask Ben LaBolt, Obama re-election campaign National Press Secretary.
And in the Big Finish, millions of Americans will be getting a rebate from their health insurance plan, all thanks to Obama care. Former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) will join Ed for reaction and analysis.
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hey, Big Eddie,
go get 'em!
Go! Big Ed! Go! God bless you for fighting for the people and not specias interest who cares only for their deep pockets.
Yea like the Unions. They are not Special Interests
not much to comment about the Romney today.....hard to comment when he says the same things again....nothin...........
how'd that go? something like if I said it it I guess I did....oh boy......nothin like commitment and standin tall. sure do miss the Perry.....he was fun to listen to.
Romney's platform-"Uuhh, uuhh,...vote for me."
I proose a vote for the american people to hold congress in contempt
all in favor:91% of americans
opposed:the 9% who approve of congress' job performance
Maybe they should worry about that vote or the student loan rates which will double in ten days....yeah one of those thngs Boehner is always crying the president isn't doing his job for him so he needs to work to do something about that which will affect millions not one person. But that is the republican plan and viewpoint, stop the whole government show and affect millions for a handful of individuals.
There are huge things happening in the next week and since congress will take another week off after the end of next week maybe they should work on something. The Dems better not act like their usual cowardly selves and surrender to this latest act of 11th honor legislative strong arm by the GOP. We've seen this before...
What's the house doing on Boxer-Inhofe, 70+ votes in the Senate....women deserve ability to get payback when they know that they've been cheated out of equal pay couldn't get 70 votes in the Senate.....House GOP listen to your smarter senate counterparts
Fast and Furious, huh? That WAS instituted by Bush/Cheney, right? Hey, what happened with all those Mexican Special Drug Agents who were armed and financed by George W. and then started working for the Drug Trafficers? What about those two Federal Air Marshalls who were caught smuggling cocaine? Did Issa or anyone in the Republican Corporate Ho Party investigate ANYTHING during Bush/Cheney?
Funny but I didn’t see any Issa hearings after 175,000 weapons turned up missing in Iraq during the Bush/Cheney disaster. By the way, wasn’t Darrell Issa a car thief? What a bunch of shameless hypocrites. It seems the real crooks are politicHo’s making laws to protect themselves from being prosecuted for the 100’s of crimes elected officials have committed since 2000.
When I heard real life “Goodfella” Henry Hill died, the first thing I thought of was how much Republicans reminded me of the crooks, RIP paisan, ya ****’n rat (sorry, lol)
They say Mitt Romney learned how to be a Vulture Capitalist watching the scene in “Goodfellas” where the hoods takeover the chump’s restaurant. Voting for Romney is a vote for fascism. “…more appropriately called Corporatism…” or will he make the trains run on time? (lol)
Italian-Americans got a saying about Rudy Giuliani, “Rudy got rid of the Mafia in NYC and then the US Government took over organized crime”. (LOL) I know, I KNOW, it’s just another coincidence a new smokable form of heroin showed up in inner city America not long after Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld invaded Afghanistan. The same thing happened during Reagan/Bush with crack cocaine, Tosh Plumlee & Iran/Contra… strange, right? Rumors since tell how the GOP learned to launder drug profits through their campaign contributions. Evil, right?
HEY, I heard George W. Bush’s favorite movie is “Goodfellas”, lol. I wonder who killed more people and stole more money, the Mafia since 1932 or the Bush Crime Family since 1988. I know, I KNOW, it’s just another coincidence every time a Bush is in the White House Americans have to suffer through a banking,/financial crisis/scandal, suckers. WASP, white collar, Bank robbers with police and Secret Service protection, now THAT is Un-American. Maybe economic terrorists?
Talking about an evil mob, the Republican Corporate Ho Party turned us all into the United Suckers of America. The Wise Guys would’a loved the suckers of the Right-wing because the hypocrites are thick as thieves. Open your eyes and look at the Bush/Cheney catastrophe… The rich guys spit in American faces, pulled down Americans pants, f***ed Americans in the @$$ for 8 years and stole your wallet before they left in 2008.
All the adults of my youth were Italian immigrants, so I’ve heard the stories about living under Mussolini during WWII. They suffered, they endured and they DAMN WELL KNOW A FASCIST POLICE STATE WHEN THEY SEE IT! So forgive my inbred hatred of anything resembling totalitarian tyranny.
Speaking of tyranny has anyone read the new Free Trade Agreement?
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I like the way you think.
Whoa, folks...wait..
The Republicans come up with this conspiracy of the Obama Administration to institute gun control and the Democrats counter with a conspiracy of their own regarding civil rights and voter suppression?
This is nuts.
Only half right but then you are a Fox news viewer who doesn't have a clue about reality. When republicans purge voters that is no conspiracy theory it is a fact when they target democratic voters. How do we know this why because their lists are slapped together without verifying if the voter is in fact an innocent voter caught up in the purge witch hunt.
Whom it May, all states purge the voter's list. This is nothing new and you know it. You Dems are affraid that there will not be any more Dead People voting this time.
This 'fast and furious' debacle is completely an attempt by the Republicans to measure the level of American public gullibility. If they pull this one over the eyes of the American public, then, they can do anything they desire and fuhgitabout our democracy, or democratic values.
I agree with Pelosi, this is a ploy to get Holder out of office so that they can place someone in that position who will help them with voter suppression. This is a blatant attack against President Obama. The Repubs are spinning their webs of lies and coming up with this BS instead of trying to mfg jobs for the country. It is a SHAME that they are holding this country hostage all because they hate the fact a "BLACK" man is in office....racism plain and simple.
The senate must hold a hearing and call in those congressman that are going outside of the house and making claim to knowledge of a gun control conspiracy connected to the fast & furious issue. They must get to bottom of this because maybe they have been leaked such information or they found a document with such plan because surely they are not just making this up.
ct, if you had watched the Rachel Maddow show last night you would have an answer to your question. Republican Senators Sessions and Grassly along with Issa interveiwed a right wing idiot that somehow got inside imformation on a conspiracy by Obama and Holder to take away our guns by giving guns away. Don't know how this was supposed to work. Naturaly Fox News found this idiot.
It is the lunatic who thought he could over throw the government after health care reform passed by breaking windows of democrats. He is one of those militia nuts who go out in the woods to terrorize the wild life on weekends after getting drunk.
The extent of the Obama administration's knowledge and connection to Fast and Furious is like Voter fraud only limited by the scope of one's own imagination.
So if you're a right wing idiotic you'll naturally be gullible enough to think Obama used his secret psionic socialist powers to hypnotize GWB to start the program and all the ATF agents in Arizona to smuggle guns to catch cartel smugglers so they'd kill more people so when he came into office he could take away all our guns by hiding that he wants to take all our guns by not doing anything to take our guns
Really it's insane how the after trying to claim all that the right isn't against legalizing drugs...
These tea party folks need to self deport themselves back to imagination land where they came from
I agree with you KentuckyBluebird and Pelosi. But, the tactical game that the Republicans are playing will not work. The people are watching and listening. "Actions speak louder than words."
Mitt Romney is a very abstract political speaker. I do not know if this is by design, or if he just lacks the vision to be more concrete in his political ideology. I think his abstract ideas are supposed to make him more likable to all people. However, what is it the Republicans always preach? The devil is in the details? He will not come out with the details until he senses that the Obama campaign won't have time to run against his ideas. I think for Mitt, though, that will be too late.
PRESIDENT OBAMA 2012!!!
No comparison between a failed President who only worked on the taxpayer payroll as a community organizer whose boss said he was mediocre versus a very successful businessman praised by those who worked for him.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and wasinaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Now now now Chris thats to much information his head might explode and then you are guilty of manslaughter, LOL, logic according to the tea bagged nation.
I don't think it would be manslaughter; more like cruelty to animals.
Sorry. I left out during all this, he wrote two books.
Watch out for PETA
Now on failure's latest lie, the right believes community organizing is evil so Obama sucking at it should be a good thing right? You dummies can't even remember your previous states since you're too busy being 1000% full of hate of Obama. Priceless.
Eds guest that talked about housing is completely wrong. If you keep propping up foreclosures you continue the problem of people that borrowed large sums to buy boats, cars, atv's and other toys and now have loans they cannot afford. Responsible homeowners who did not live over their means are being punished by Obama handing out taxpayer money to those that did.
President Obama is a fine, fabulous, fantastic president!
Obama/Biden 2012
Open your eyes Dems your all Delusional. Obama is finished. Romney 2012
Romney/Nobody 1812
Right because everyone knows that 40% of likely voters want Mittens which is more then the 53% of likely voters who want to keep Obama. Boy been smoking the magic underpants I see. Oh and Mittens unfavorable poll among likely voters 48%, yeah Mittens is very well loved by the delusional tea bagged republicans everyone else see's him for the wanker he is.
Just because that is what you do with your money don't go around saying everyone does as you, they don't. I wish you conservatives would stop with your projection nonsense, the only people like you are yourselves, you are not wonder human beings and nobody but people with the same mental instabilities like yours want to be like you. The ones who need to be punished are the liars that blame poor people for the housing mess, like you.
The housing mess was caused by a) Clinton who signed a law giving loans to people that previously never qualified (Clinton has admitted this was a major mistake on his part) and Dems who then pushed banks. Suddenly people with limited financial means bought houses they could not afford and many others obtained second mortgages under the relaxed rules. Of course a crash occurred.
The housing mess was created by greedy bankers and your buddies on Wall street. Stop using old information from 2008. That the housing mess was pure greed from the loan industry has been proven time after time, you are just stuck on excuses not reality.
The Repuli-Cons are the criminals in this debacle... They are so disgusting they make me want to vomit... Romney is a spineless empty suit, with an empty braim and a lot of empty WORDS... How do you vote a person in as President that has no clue on what to do for this country... Not only is Romney clueless he is ball-less... My girl Nancy Pelosi has more balls than him and the Repuli-CON House of Representative... These men all act like Puss...... Now we have a new puss-n-boots along with the others Issaa... We have to vote President Obama back into office and give him some help by voting a majority of democrats into the House of Representatives.... If we don't this reccession we are in will be a Great Depression... an election bought and rule by the rich... We better get busy folks..
You have to admire their insanity on the whole thing, Obama is trying to take away guns by not taking away any guns but he is selling guns to take away guns, Really tea bagged republicans need time off in a rubber room and all the free drugs they need to cure them of their delusions.
I think that it is important to remember that even if this theory of the Republican's is correct, which it is not, but even if it was, that Mexico prohibits foreign authorities from carrying weapons in Mexico. I don't think that the U.S. government would purposefully smuggle the weapons into Mexico and completely ignore that country's national sovereignty.
Tea bagged republicans never sweat the details all they care about is having fake outrage to rant and foam at the mouth over.
Nancy pelosi could be the most ignorant person on this earth, it's scary to think of the idiots her vote her into power, there should be an aptitude test before you can vote lol. I'm glad to see the republicans have the balls to do what is right on fast and furious and hopefully the full House will hole Holder in contempt for lying and stonewalling Congress. Also if the democrats were so worried about jobs they would not have wasted all there time on Obama Care, hopefully the Supreme Court will do the right thing and strike down all of it.
"Wide Receiver" is the ATF , Border Patrol and Local Law Enforcement "gun - running" operation started in 2007 - 08 and under supervision of political apointee's of the Bush - Cheney Adm., and it went into full action while A.G. Michael Mukasey was in charge of the DoJ, and it continued into the Obama -Biden Adm. and A.G. Holder and under the name "Fast & Furious" , and in between there were at least 2 or 3 more small operations, some of them under local Border State's Law Enforcement members , that have gotten very little attention, and as we all have seen in 5 US Congress Hearings ( House and Senate, c-span.org/ video archives ) in 2011and 2012, and according to many Senators and Representatives , it was L. Breuer and Weinstein at the DoJ the ones who knew about it, did not tell anyone and let them run on and on , and when confronted by House and Senate members, Breuer apologized three times and went home, even when many House and Senate members demanded that they resign right there , so why no one in the media tells the American People all these facts ? why no one talks about Mukasey,Breuer and Weinstein approving these projects and never telling anyone about it for years , and why is the Media and some in Congress focusing only on A.G. Holder who ended it ? Partisan Politics ? special privileges for Mukasey,Breuer and Weinstein ? why ? Maybe the Ed Show could put all the facts of this operation on the table and so let the USA Taxpayers ( it was their money which paid for all these guns and gun-runners, all deliveries, full logistic support, expense accounts, lawyers, advisers, gun dealers fees and commissions, etc., etc. ) decide , and again decide from the beginning , since A G. Mukasey approved it , like multiple e-mails , staff and reports prove.
Well Anton, if it was all Bush's fault, then why the Executive Privilege? Obama has been saying for the past 3 years it is Bush's fault and he had no idea about nothing, this will fit into his narrative.
Nixon White house. Watergate. Nixon supporters..."It is just a witch hunt" "Love America of Live It " "Get off President Nixon,s back." This is just politics, pure and simple " "This Watergate thing is just a screw up." "They are trying to say that Nixion authorized the break in" "The Nixon haters are at it again" "Watergate thing is just a distraction" "The White House has more important issues of national importance"
SOUND FAMILIAR ? Ink out Nixon, Watergate and fill in Holder, Obama and Fast and Furious. THIS IS NOT GOING AWAY ANYTIME SOON FOLKS !
If John .F Kennedy what his speech would be today.......Think of his voice inflections...as you read.
Today...as a.nation.. We have not yet come to the promise.. of a world of known as freedom.. As it would be known today..............We have not failed as a nation of people.........Yet as a government we have opened doors... for business and they have prospered... and made there way to all corner’s of the earth
Yet their of those who believe that the loopholes in the written words give them right to exercise control the moral beliefs of what the words where written in the Constitution. To them, I say We the people are the bearers of the torch of freedom.....
Let it be known to those who's wishes are contradictory to the rights that are God given.. will not be of the few...but of the many.
JFK did have a way of using words............
The Earth isn't flat....We have landed men on the Moon..yet I don't think he's dream is gone
http://youtu.be/FPZsYAphUSg
Word's "reassemble" words be quick...words resemble walking sticks...watch them waver so...
ZZ TOP/ http://youtu.be/-BwKGFb0PgI