{"id":6269,"date":"2012-06-20T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2012-06-20T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:36:11","slug":"obamas-bad-week-hhh-month-gets-worse-executive-privilege-for-holder-a-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/obamas-bad-week-hhh-month-gets-worse-executive-privilege-for-holder-a-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#039;s Bad Week ^H^H^H Month Gets Worse: Executive Privilege for Holder a Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, man, this is great:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents, a last-minute maneuver that appears unlikely to head off a contempt vote against Holder by Republicans in the House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/06\/20\/house-republicans-tee-up-imminent-contempt-vote-against-holder\/\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/06\/20\/house-republicans-tee-up-imminent-contempt-vote-against-holder\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is like Tea Party Christmas. \u00a0Obama just opened the door to impeachment. At a minimum, this gives Congress the opportunity to examine Obama&#8217;s use of Executive Privilege, which should prove rewarding. This is not any victory for the Marxists in the White House. This is a large chunk crashing down in the collapse of the administration!<\/p>\n<p>Boehner is smart but weak &#8212; but this is the only time he has been hitched to Issa instead of McConnell. \u00a0Well, maybe he&#8217;s not smart, but he IS weak. \u00a0Issa is smart and strong. \u00a0Christ, I just got a man-crush on Issa all over again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been bitter (brutal!) in my criticism of Boehner over the last two years, but lemme tell you what. If Issa and Boehner were trying to provoke this response, I&#8217;ll get back in the GOP clown car and shut up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6269\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6269\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, man, this is great:<\/p>\n<p>President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents, a last-minute maneuver that appears unlikely to head off a contempt vote against Holder by Republicans in the House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/06\/20\/house-republicans-tee-up-imminent-contempt-vote-against-holder\/\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/06\/20\/house-republicans-tee-up-imminent-contempt-vote-against-holder\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is like Tea Party Christmas. \u00a0Obama just opened the door to impeachment. At a minimum, this gives Congress the opportunity to examine Obama&#8217;s use of Executive Privilege, which should prove rewarding. This is not any victory for the Marxists in the White House. This is a large chunk crashing down in the collapse of the administration!<\/p>\n<p>Boehner is smart but weak &#8212; but this is the only time he has been hitched to Issa instead of McConnell. \u00a0Well, maybe he&#8217;s &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/obamas-bad-week-hhh-month-gets-worse-executive-privilege-for-holder-a-trap\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}