It was only a matter of time before Democrats played the race card on the Eric Holder contempt vote. What else are they going to say? They need to obscure the real issue here as quickly as possible, and what better way than to shout “racist!” again and again at bewildered Republicans?
Rep. Nancy Pelosi set the liberal narrative yesterday afternoon (h/t Joel Gehrke):
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), declared that House Republicans are charging Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress not as part of an investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, but in order to weaken his ability to prevent voter suppression.
“They’re going after Eric Holder because he is supporting measures to overturn these voter suppression initiatives in the states,” Pelosi told reporters during her press briefing today. “This is no accident, it is no coincidence. It is a plan on the part of Republicans.”
Did you get that? Republicans are so intent on suppressing the minority vote that they began investigating the Fast and Furious scandal more than a year and a half ago because they suspected that, at some point in the future, Attorney General Eric Holder might attempt to overturn state voter ID laws that nobody had even heard of at the time — and the GOP would have the ultimate trump card ready to foil his plan. That sounds like a much more likely explanation than, say, Holder refusing to turn over thousands of pages of relevant documents to an investigating congressional committee.
Pelosi and Biden seem to be in some kind of inglorious competition; but while Biden makes far more silly statements per day than Pelosi, on average the things that Nancy spouts off with are usually more outrageous, so it is hard to say which holds first place. In any case her contribution yesterday was a topper.
Pelosi, in that statement revealed what scares them the most of all. nThe possible elimination of illegal voters. nRequiring voter ID at the polls would destroy their chances of maintaining control of the country.
Shock jock Pelosi in front of cameras again. Oh how good it feels all that attention, shock and buzz. n
Isn't sanity a requirement to serve in the congress? Apparently not. In fact, it appears just the opposite. The same can be said for the executive branch.