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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member, attended today’s House Oversight Committee hearing regarding Fast and Furious and the Holder contempt vote. He joins Ed tonight.
The NRA is ready to flex its political power in tomorrow’s Fast and Furious contempt vote—putting the pressure on Democrats. Jonathan Alter, MSNBC Political Analyst and Bloomberg View Columnist, and Bob Shrum, Democratic Strategist, join us to talk about how the gun lobby could change the fate of Attorney General Eric Holder.
Justin Bieber made an appearance on the House floor? Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) joins Ed to explain what Bieber can teach us about the immigration debate.
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IT SURE IS Amazing - that when THEY CREATE A Problem and Then Turn and Point Their Fingers Else-where - Ha Haaa - What A Joke These GOOFBALLS ARE
Damn - I had A Nice Article - then Time Ran out on me - SjH!T - Pi$$ es Me OFF !!!!! NOTE TO VINE ---- INCREASE THE Time Limit For COMMENTS ---- PLEASE !!!! This Time - Limit Just DELETES MANY GOOD Rebuttal's and Shuts Down Many Good Opinions !!!!!!!!! Seriously - COME ON !!!!!
Don't you hate when that happens!!!
Yes Sir ----------- I HATE THAT !!!!! IT LIMITS ONES OPINIONS - For Cryin' Out LOAD !!!!!! IT Limits Ones Freedom Of Speech --- Seriously - and Then When the Time Limit Runs Out - It Obliterates Ones Expressions -- It Just Isnt RITE !!! Know What I Mean ???????
OMG -0- I Almost Ran OUT Of Time - AGAIN !!!!!!???????????????????????????????
Lets ALL Get Together And Send A Message To The VINE About This Comment-Time Limitation !!!! hey !!!!! Its Crazy !!!! It IS Far TOO Limited !!!!! LUV YA ED !!!!!!!OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 !! WOOoooooHhhhoooooooo !!!!!
MD...
Perhaps this article???
Fortune Magazine article - The Truth Behind Fast and Furious Scandal
Hey David = Brother - Yes = I have Read Much About This and it is Just Incredible that THEY Are Blaiming PRESIDENT OBAMA and E. Holder For ALL Of This Debacle that the Bush/CheNay Administration STARTED - hey !!!??????? THEY Are CRAZY AND They Do NOT EVEN KNOW - OR ARE Being Purposefully Ignorant as To Just What This Stupid and Out Of Control CRAP That THEY Started Has Evolved Into - OH - OH - But Of Courrse - Its ALL Prez. Obamas Fault +++ Go Figure - hey !!????????
What I find amusing is how they just can't grasp that unless they can link 1 of the 2 ATF weapons as they murder weapon then there is no case against the ATF. Nor will they admit that the whole problem was created by NRA/GOP lax gun laws that allowed drug dealers to give people money to but guns. You got to laugh when they then whine guns are getting into the hands of criminals, well yeah thats what happens with lax gun laws, dumb asses.
Democrats win again...Student loans kept rates down much to the chagrin of Teapublicans. They are only doing this because there has been so much push back....petitions seem to work....sometimes!
Two down..one to go...KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED!
XXX OOO , This is wonderful news. We will hold there feet to the fire and there witch hunt on fast and furious will come back to bite them. You are so good finding stuff. I thought i heard this was first began in BUSHS term. Can you research and get us ammo so s to speak . That Isa is a criminal and how he ever got into public office is beyond me. I think there's allot to this story. Identifies may need to be protected and with there witch hunt agents could be sold out. Holder has gave them above and beyond info on this. The boarder guards are like the military they know what they are getting into. Boner is shooting his mouth off again and its a vendetta plain and simple!
pam read the fortune report on fast & furiuos. it will answer your questions. this is a witch hunt for sure.
Petition/End the New Majority Agenda's lies!!! Be sure to UNCHECK box if you don't want your name to be seen!
http://www.change.org/petitions/hulu-remove-the-misinforming-ad-by-the-new-majority-agenda
Issa should be held in comptempt and be removed from office for lying to the American people. He should also apologize to President Obama, Eric Holder, and the American people. Every democrat that votes with Issa and the NRA should also be replaced.
IT is classic attack on your weakness/accuse the other of doing what you are doing and blame them for your mistakes.
Modern repulbican are contemptable, caused the deficit, grew the debt and collapsed the econmy for personal gain while denying access to healthcare to profit.
Issa is a career criminal who made it into the Republican party where he gained a lot of respect for his character.
GOP Head Of Oversight Has Criminal Past
April 16, 2012
By Matthew Malone
Since the GOP took back the House in 2010, it’s been common to hear about California Rep. Darrell Issa, the head of Oversight Committee, launching investigations into alleged misconduct. He famously called a hearing on contraceptives, asking a group of only men to testify.
It’s not as common, though, that we hear about the man himself. As it turns out, he has a criminal history of his own. In the 1970s, he was arrested on suspicion of stealing a Maserati. The charges were later dropped, but it was ironic, considering he later made his fortune creating the security system used in the Viper. His brother ended up serving hard time for auto theft.
In addition to that, Issa got nailed for illegally carrying a concealed weapon — in fact, a handgun and a teargas gun, with ammunition for both. He pleaded guilty in that case.
And then there are his lies. He used to brag that he had been on a special bomb detail that had protected President Nixon at the 1971 World Series. NPR looked into it, and found that Nixon never went to a World Series game that year.
Issa was, at one time, particularly vocal about his honorable military career, too. But as it turns out, Issa had ended up with a bad conduct rating. He was demoted, and was accused by a fellow solider of — yup, you guessed it — stealing a car.
And then there was the big one. In 1982, just three weeks after quadrupling his fire insurance policy and putting all important documents in a fire safe, a warehouse owned by Issa suspiciously burned down. Issa never got fingered for it, but with reports of “suspicious burn patterns,” it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to think he set the fire.
I wonder what he’s been up to since then that we haven’t heard about?
Of course, all this makes him a perfect candidate, in the GOP’s mind, to head the Oversight Committee. Who better to catch criminals in Washington than a man who is himself a criminal?
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/16/gop-head-of-oversight-has-criminal-past/
With this GOP party, they should be held in contempt because they have done nothing to help Americans, other than their rich and powerful employers. The top 1% have already bought the GOP and now is trying to get the rest. Racism at its Best. It has nothing to do with anything that will help this country move forward, but to put us back to times when only the super rich and their lackeys control everything and the rest of us are left to die!
The primary issue today is class, not race. Your rights as a citizen actually are, by policy, determined by class. We've made a number of changes in social policy to ensure that nearly all of our poor will remain locked into poverty, largely funneled into jobs that pay minimum wage or less, serving as a local Third World workforce to reduce the corporate costs of shipping our jobs to foreign countries. I promise you, they couldn't care less about the color of the people they're able to exploit.
I just love it when Ed changes facts on guns trafficed from the US to mexico.
Maybe he should try telling the truth for once.
Hey, full-of-somthing, Ed didn't change the facts. The facts were as Fortune Mag. presented them. Republicans are the ones that nevver lets the facts get in the way of a lie.
TODAY IN HISTORY - 1844 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum were killed by a mob in Carthage,Ill. Hmmmmmmm
Guess they weren't wearing their magic underpants that day huh.
full blown jack for brains
Shouldn't that be...who blew jack's brains out?
If Cummings can't say it, I can. It is racism. it was racism from day 1. I was born in the south and attend school in the north, and I know racism when I hear it, see it , smell it, touch it, and taste it. This is not America. I pledged allegiance when I had to ride in the back of the bus, go to the back door to buy food, drink water from a separate fountain, color hospital, schools, movies, taxis, trains, playgrounds, housing, I can go on and on. I recognized the word colored/coloured before I took my first step. June 28th will be a day of embassment and the world is laughing.
Second that.
Fullblownjack left speechless
Result of being brainless.
Whooo Ed, let's not be too hasty on the poll where President Obama would be a better choice if aliens landed....Although the President would be more diplomatic and a more intelligent conversation, Mr Romney could assign Bain to buy the spaceship, then take it apart and sell for profit and send those illegal aliens overseas to work in call centers...thus doing three things, helping keep the economy rolling and implement his immigration plan and creating jobs.
What idiot nutjobs would concider voting for this Nazis party, sorry, I ment the Republican party.
Nazi wannabes.
If aliens invaded mankind would make a declaration rejecting surrender....then President Romney would give up and say he's always been severly in favor of aliens running the planet the whole time.
Day 1
(reporter)President Romney how would you fight the aliens?
(Romney) The answer is that I will have a long term solution that we'll discuss when we get to that
(reporter) Mr. President they're already here what are we going to do?
(Romney) I have a long term solution that will fix that......trust me I'm a robot and an outsourcing king I know how to get aliens moving.....
(reporter) So what's the plan?
(Romney) Aren't there interesting matters going on in America like the economy......or our biggest geo-political foe Russia?
(reporter) But they're here, in the streets of our city we need a plan
(Romney) If people are so worried they should just go into their high tech security panic room with a couple of their butlers where they can have cake.....what you guys don't have those?
Day 2
Aliens ask Romney what his plan is for immigration and the US economy. They receive no reply.
Day 3
President Romney, his wife, five sons of numerous grand children take off from a private space shuttle Romney bought with all his money he had in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland to fly into space with their dressage horses on the roof.
Day 4
Aliens beam Michelle Bachmann, Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Koch brothers and other members of the tea party right off of Earth because not even the aliens can stand how stupid and conspiracy driven they are. They leave planet to find out how someone could ever be that dumb and crazy
Day 5
Earth begins a great new age of scientific understanding and research, equality for all regardless of race, religion, or sexuality, repairs effect of global warming creating new renewable fuels, and an era of world peace.
From AP:
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has refused to stop Florida from removing potentially non-U.S. citizens from its voter rolls.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state to halt the purge, arguing it was going on too close to afederal election.
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle said Wednesday that there was nothing in federal voting laws that prevent the state from identifying non-U.S. citizens even if it comes less than 90 days before the Aug. 14 election.
Hinkle ruled that federal laws are designed to block states from removing eligible voters close to an election. He said they are not designed to stop states from blocking voters who should have never been allowed to cast ballots in the first place.
Gov. Rick Scott praised Hinkle's decision, saying "irreparable harm will result if non-citizens are allowed to vote."
The irreparable harm that would result if eligible citizens are not allowed to vote does not, apparently, bother Gov. Scott or Judge Hinkle.
It does, however, make me really really mad.
Hundreds of those on the list were clearly legal citizens who had the state gone through would have been disqualified. This is why the DOJ told them to suspend the operation because the veracity of the information had not been confirmed and had Florida done a more thorough investigation to ensure this wasn't the case things would be different. They concluded that all those on the list were illegal by trying to purge them.
Now here's what happened they picked the DMV database for names however as the state's previous election superviser noted this list would not be to the accuracy that would be advisable. The governor did it anyway by taking all the names on the list on the purge list but did not check to make sure they weren't citizens before putting them on the list. Had they used a "potential illegal" category which would have become the "purge list" this would be different. They did the opposite by putting everyone there on the purge side essentially skipping the fact checking stage.
So say you were on the list and you are a citizen but for whatever reason didn't respond to the letter sent you would be denied voting rights, now you may believe that isn't a big deal because they should have just responded but it is from a legal standpoint. You see the government can't legally take your voting right by saying you're not a citizen if you are a citizen, the burden is on them not you the voter to do the fact checking.
The problem with the poll question, "Do you think the country is on the right track" -- it is dead wrong to assume that a NO answer is a criticism of President Obama. What keeps this country on the wrong track was the stated Republican goal of "making Obama a one-term president," even if they have to destroy the country in the process. Try to remember that we don't have a dictatorship, and that what the president can accomplish depends a great deal of Congress.
This is ridiculous for the house of representatives to hold the attorney general Eric Holder in contempt of the house.. The evidences in this case of fast and furious speaks volume that there are loose guns laws in the state of Arizona but the Republican are ignoring all the facts and blaming the attorney general for absolutely nothing. Republican are quick to vote for such stupid things that does not hold water at all but not legislation to create jobs for millions of Americans people who are struggling every single day to put food on the table for their loved ones. This article said it all (Fortune Magazine article - The Truth Behind Fast and Furious Scandal) but i guess those conservative nuts made up their minds to bring down the attorney general even though he gave them all thousands of documents and played by the book since he was elected. It is embarrassing for the house of representative to proceed and vote to hold the attorney general in contempt, i hope some Republican in house of representative repudiate such ill political tactic and focus on the issues that matters to American people otherwise they will suffer the consequences in the general election.... shame on GOP!