Nostalgia for when the media loved whistleblowers:
These days, in the Obama era, Democrats and the media seem a lot less admiring of whistleblowers, oddly enough. Imagine for a moment that Rowley had been assigned a new boss at the FBI after her whistleblowing, one that had told others that the agency needed to “get whatever dirt we can” on her to “take her down,” and especially if that boss had previously said in the presence of at least one witness that the FBI needed to “f**k” said whistleblower. Can you imagine the media meltdown that would have occurred? Well, you’re going to have to be satisfied with imagining it, but Senator Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa want answers as to why two Operation Fast and Furious whistleblowers got assigned to work for a man who said exactly that about them.
If this were a Republican administration, there would be calls for impeachment.
I’d schedule a new vote in the House on the individual mandate, but replace the “penalty language” with language specifically acknowledging that the “penalty” is actually a tax. If the Democrats vote “aye,” they’ve acknowledged breaking the Obama pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. If the Democrats–specifically those who already voted for the mandate–vote “nay”, what becomes of the tax argument in future litigation?
That’s what Darrel Issa reportedly just dropped into the Congressional Record. I wonder how much else he has? I’ll bet that the DOJ and White House (not to mention Elijah Cummings) do, too.
And meanwhile, what would you do after making history as the first cabinet member to be found in contempt of Congress? Eric Holder went to Disney World.
Yes, really. I’ll leave the obvious jokes to the commenters.