Bingo! We Have a Winner! - Pelosi: Contempt Vote PAYBACK For Holder’s Voter Protection Efforts

[kpete]

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Pelosi: Contempt Vote Payback For Holder’s Voter Protection Efforts


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that an effort by House Republicans to pass a resolution finding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress is really about his efforts in opposition to GOP-backed voting laws that Democrats consider forms of voter suppression.

“It’s really important to note how this is connected with some of their other decisions. It is no accident. It is no coincidence that the Attorney General of the United States is the person responsible for making sure that voter suppression does not happen in our country, that issues that relate to the civil liberties of the American people are upheld,” Pelosi said.

“These very same people holding in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress a vote. They are closely aligned with those who are suffocating the system, special interests, secret money, and they are poisoning the debate. They are poisoning the debate with that money. And so what does the average citizen say? They throw up their hands and they say, a pox on both your houses, and that is a victory for the special interest,” Pelosi continued.

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UPDATE:

The connection is clear as day, really.
My hat's off to Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Pierce.

Senator Cornyn dropped the ball, when he mentioned AG Holder and the DOJ involvement in the Florida purge, as one of the reasons he would agree with asking for Holder's resignation.

Cornyn brings up voter supression.
They don't care about the guns, they are mad at Holder for blowing the cover on them stealing the next election.

...Senator John (Box Turtle) Cornyn gave this whole game away a week ago.

"You still resist coming clean about what you knew and when you knew it with regard to Operation Fast and Furious. You won't cooperate with a legitimate Congressional investigation, and you won't hold anyone, including yourself, accountable. Your Department blocks states from implementing attempts to combat voter fraud. In short, you've violated the public trust, in my view, and by failing and refusing to perform the duties of your office," Cornyn said.

That is not a non sequitur. That's a tell.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Why_Pelosi_Is_Correct_Today

[CJCRANE]

1. K&R nt

[JNelson6563]

2. Right again!

It will be nice to see her as Speaker again.

Julie

[GusFring]

3. why wont Obama say things like this?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. What media outlet do "we" own that would report on it

it if he did? He has said a lot of things that DUers demand yet the RW noise machine never carries it.

[barbtries]

12. thank you.

it is NOT that the democrats are terrible messengers. it's that what passes for media in this country ignores us.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

24. +1! Why is it so difficult for people here to accept that the Corporate Media has an agenda...

...and it ain't seeing to it that the truth gets out?

Even if Obama decided to scream this from the rooftop, the Corporate Media--as let's face it, many of us--would just twist the story as him being hysterical and "political."

The guy can't win for losing, no matter what he does.

Even if he did say these kinds of things, rest assured that DU and Democrats in general would find something to bitch and complain about.

[freshwest]

6. Is a woman's word not good enough?

[GusFring]

10. she's not president. it looks like typical bickering in congress. nt

[freshwest]

14. Suppression of votes by the GOP is not 'typical bickering.'

It's her job to stop the house GOP from harrassing the AG, who is fighting it, which is the issue here. That she's not the president is obvious. He's doing his job and she's doing hers.

[SemperEadem]

15. that's the false equivalent

you're choosing to see this as bickering and not seeing this for what it is: Pelosi standing up and making an informed, truthful statement about exactly what is going on. That is not bickering. That is called stating a fact.

Fact is: none of the MSM would carry this if Obama said it because they're too invested in continuing the negative meme about him. I just recently read that Obama has not gone a good 7 days for months without something negative being said by the MSM:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20121362-503544.html?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.4
President Obama "has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment" of all presidential candidates over the past five months, according to a study released Monday from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Pew found that Mr. Obama was the subject of negative assessments nearly four times as often as he was the subject of positive assessments. It found he received "positive" coverage nine percent of the time, "neutral" coverage 57 percent of the time and "negative" coverage 34 percent of the time.

The study, which was conducted using a combination of "traditional media research methods [and] computer algorithms to track the level and tone of coverage," cuts against the widespread conservative claim that the "liberal media" aides Mr. Obama and other Democrats while attacking Republicans.

Pew says it looked at coverage from more than 11,500 news outlets, including local and national broadcasts, news websites and blogs.

Mr. Obama's negative coverage could be explained in part by the fact that he is "covered largely as president rather than a candidate," Pew said - and coverage of him is linked to the struggling economy.

Their owners are in league with and part of the country club set that mittiot belongs to: they are more than willing to use their companies to get that man elected, even if it means lying. Already, the SCOUTUS has said that media companies do not have to tell the truth.

The lie is: both sides are bickering. The truth is: the thugs are staging political theatre at the expense of the well being of this nation and those who choose not to see that blame both sides.

[DallasNE]

30. The Reason For This Is Simple

President Obama "has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment" of all presidential candidates over the past five months

The only interest the MSM has is that we have a horserace because of all of the income that generates for the corporation. Since Obama was positioned to take a nice lead MSM had to step in and try to do something about it. If the Bloomberg poll yesterday is any indication they still have more work to do. But people seem to be paying more attention than usual for this early and already determining that Romney just isn't a good fit for President for a number of reasons.

[GusFring]

33. I didnt say I saw it that way. The media will see it that way. It wont be a story coming from a her.

If Obama said it, it would be everywhere.

[DonCoquixote]

49. and rest assured

The media will paint it as yet another example of Obama being an "uppity" person who complains because he just does not understand the world. Granted, i feel Obama should double down and be blunt, but then again, if he did that, his own party would blame him for being too whiny, and half of the people saying that Bullshit would be led by Bill "y'all should have voted for my wife so I could get my third term in office" Clinton!

[mfcorey1]

56. Well, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out their nefarious intent. nt

[luvlyrta]

37. First, it appears to be Pelosi's

And the dems in congress' job to make this point - and others. 2nd, I truly believe the obstruction to this President and his administration is race-based. And when he even comes close to calling stuff out for what it is, conservatives jump all over him like no president before him. (Racism is also the reason some dems act against and criticize the President.)

[JoePhilly]

38. Nancy is the House minority leader ... and it is the GOP House MAJORITY doing this.

It makes very good sense for her to be making such statements.

Issa is a shill. Obama doesn't really need to engage him directly. This is a good place for surrogates to attack.

[freshwest]

4. One is known by the enemies one has, and this is well coordinated.

[siligut]

7. SOP for thugs. nt

[Spazito]

8. Exactly!

During the hearings, one of the repubs brought this up and as much as said this was the reason. I think I heard it on a clip played on either Rachel Maddow's or Lawrence O'Donnell's show. It was quite blatant, imo.

[julian09]

27. Too bad they have the same audience lucky to reach one million viewers

and one million five hundred on exceptional day. Too bad that people would rather watch situation comedy, sports and not be informed
on the things that impacts their lives.

[Spazito]

28. Better to reach a million than none at all...

and that million, via facebook, twitter, co-workers, families, etc, multiply the number being informed exponentially so one million is only the base number not the total number reached. If each of us do our part it will end up being in the many millions.

Edited to add clarity.

[liberal N proud]

9. The republicans are fascist pigs who will do whatever it takes to get what they want

[oldhippydude]

11. been saying that for weeks!!! n/t

[Uncle Joe]

13. I believe that; to be a most sound argument.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[kpete]

35. me too!

peace to you Uncle Joe
kp

[Uncle Joe]

39. Peace to you as well, kpete.

UJ

[FirstLight]

16. well if the 'media' won't get the word out

why don't WE...? I highly suggest sharing and posting this article and any others along the same lines to ensure it goes viral...

but ya, like that would work, right?

[Voice for Peace]

23. every little bit helps

ultimately it's the people who will put a stop to all of this nonsense.

people power.. get them the information, since the media fails to do so.

[msongs]

17. Pelosi: I welcome their hatred. Obama: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz nt

[oldhippydude]

18. funny thing

you can trace this back to the US Attorneys scandal in 06.. has KKKarl Roves prints all over it.. in the meantime ALEC has been carrying the banner in the states.. We should have nailed turd blossom while we had the chance.. thats what we get for letting criminals walk

[SemperEadem]

19. If Obama didn't have to count on

wishy-washy independent voters, then I'm sure he'd be saying this, too.

But the moment he steps into this and says this, the independents will clutch their pearls and shriek in horror.

[Fawke Em]

20. Um.. DUH.

I've been saying that since yesterday.

[Melissa G]

21. Ding Ding Ding!

Fight their voter intimidation and suppression efforts and they come after you. Message received.
I hope they get called out everywhere for it.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

22. Many of us have said this over and over again. A distraction to keep Holder from FL!

[MADem]

26. Holder should send one of his best staffers down there to oversee this business. nt

[MADem]

25. Add this to the NRA's threats about withholding a good rating from the GOP stooges, and no wonder

those chiselers are looking to do their masters' bidding!!!

It's all about the money, money, money....

[Javaman]

29. Meh, so what? what is pelosi going to do about it?

she already told us she could have had turd blossom arrested but didn't.

So what does she gain by pointing out the fucking bleeding obvious?

I'm tired of this brain damaged version of kabuki theater that passes for our congress.

[Raine]

44. Totally agree, that's what I want to know WHAT are "our" side going to do about it?!?!?

I'm so fed up with this crap. All I see is game playing ... I want to see SOLUTIONS!

[EFerrari]

31. THANK YOU! This post needs about 800 more recs.

[Chorophyll]

32. K&R!!!

Go Nancy! I'm so glad she said this. I hope she (and others) will keep hammering the point home.

[stupidicus]

34. she took a great deal else off the table

like that's the only thing over and way in which they've tried to tar and feather this admin.

It (her effort here) may be a good way to bring further attention (set the table) to their voter suppression efforts, but it's very simplistic as an explanation for their conduct. It's almost like she's saying that the Issa witch hunt on this F&F BS wouldn't have happened butfor his doing his job on the voter suppression efforts. If you believe that, well, as they say, I have a shit load of bridges...

Odd, I thought it was govs and state legislatures that were on the front lines of the voter suppression efforts, not Issa and crew. Perhaps maybe Nancy can provide some quotes from them that would provide this as the primary impetus/motivation for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal#Investigations_and_fallout affair

It's far more if not exclusively about this being one example of rightwingnut turd tossing, hoping one will stick, not any single thing that they oppose BHO/the dems over.

kinda like the one Nancy polished. It's "payback" for dems/BHO simply being in office to confront voter suppression efforts, and a great deal else. In fairness, she seems to understand that, given ALL she said, but if highlighting the voter suppression thing magically makes it all about that alone for ya...

[kpete]

36. Why Nancy Pelosi Is Correct Today

JUN
21
Why Nancy Pelosi Is Correct Today
By Charles P. Pierce
at 1:00PM

The nickel drops with a resounding thunk:

"These very same people holding in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress a vote. They are closely aligned with those who are suffocating the system, special interests, secret money, and they are poisoning the debate. They are poisoning the debate with that money. And so what does the average citizen say? They throw up their hands and they say, a pox on both your houses, and that is a victory for the special interest," Pelosi continued.

Considering that, just yesterday, she said something that made me want to remove my cochleas with a melon baller, and prompting a new outburst of barefaced non-facts from the lump of walking yard-waste in question, this is much, much better. And before the flying monkeys get to shrieking and flinging the poo from on high, it's important that Senator John (Box Turtle) Cornyn gave this whole game away a week ago:

"You still resist coming clean about what you knew and when you knew it with regard to Operation Fast and Furious. You won't cooperate with a legitimate Congressional investigation, and you won't hold anyone, including yourself, accountable. Your Department blocks states from implementing attempts to combat voter fraud. In short, you've violated the public trust, in my view, and by failing and refusing to perform the duties of your office," Cornyn said.

That is not a non sequitur. That's a tell.


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Why_Pelosi_Is_Correct_Today#ixzz1ySvaVhpO

[clang1]

40. re: Bingo! We Have a Winner! - Pelosi: Contempt Vote PAYBACK For Holder’s Voter Protection Efforts

Well well well. They are psychopaths is why he said this. In his mind it is all ok. I wonder who all that statement was for and whether it was just a slip or something more.

[Tigress DEM]

41. Can WE the People bombard these crooks with "voter" dolls bound and gagged?

So I see a Wizard of Oz guy with a black box he's hiding behind and the HUGE screen above shows A map of red and blue.

He's stuffing the box with red cards and dropping blue cards from a trap door, while his winged monkeys carry away voters - only those who have blue cards.

Tig

[McCamy Taylor]

42. Damn straight!

[pacalo]

43. The lengths they'll go to defend the 2010-elected(???) poisonous teabagger governors!

First, mini-me was rescued from an embarrassing recall & now they're trying to save a scary-eyed bigot's voter-purge project by inventing an Obama scandal.

[TrollBuster9090]

45. I called it on June 11th, and

and also discussed my theories about bears shitting in the woods.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=141635

I'm glad Pelosi finally spoke out loud what anybody with the brains god gave to a goose can see. This is mainly an attempt to intimidate Holder.

Of course, once they've done it, and he notices that he didn't disappear in a puff of smoke, he might actually grow a pair and go after the Florida voter purgers, Karl Rove declaring his political superpack as a public service organization to duck disclosing his donors, and maybe go after a few Wall Street crooks as well. Maybe go after the REAL crooks who put Don Seigelman in jail, and some of the political hack FBI agents that helped Rove and Bush in Texas.

[clang1]

46. re: "These very same people holding in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress a vote."

This is not just about Obama....there is much more to the picture.

“These very same people holding in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress a vote.

[lonestarnot]

47. Exactly.

[ErikJ]

48. CON-SPIRACY of blacks to send whites to FEMA concentration camps.

Watch the first 5 minutes of Hartmanns show explaining the wacko RW conspiracy. THese Wingnuts have been building this up for the paswt YEAR folks-if not longer. It is to fool their base into thinking Obama is going to take their guns and send all whites to concentration camps.

&feature=player_detailpage

[Mike Niendorff]

50. Ok, here's what you do:

Ms. Pelosi, stop being so wordy.

Here's what you say:

"The Republican Party intends to commit election fraud. The Attorney General is working to stop them. So these criminals want him gone. That's what this is about."

Spell it out, say it straight, pick a fight.


MDN

[rks306]

51. Sen. C. hole

This man let the cat out-the-bag with his line of questions.

[ibegurpard]

52. And here is why we shouldn't throw Holder under the bus

[bupkus]

53. No, Nancy, it's payback for you failing to do your job nt

[Turbineguy]

54. Cornyn

ain't too fuckin' bright.

[rocktivity]

55. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

She should have "Just another partisan witch hunt" tattooed across her eyeballs.


rocktivity

[cheapdate]

57. Complete list of legislation passed and enacted into public law by the 111th congress under Speaker

I admit I was disappointed that Pelosi didn't pursue investigations of criminal wrongdoing by Bush officials. In retrospect, I understand and appreciate that Nancy Pelosi realistically considered her options and priorities, and I think she made some good decisions.

****************************************
Complete list of legislation passed and enacted into public law by the 111th congress under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

January 29, 2009: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
February 4, 2009: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (SCHIP)
February 17, 2009: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
March 11, 2009: Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
March 30, 2009: Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
April 21, 2009: Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
May 20, 2009: Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009
May 20, 2009: Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
May 22, 2009: Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009
May 22, 2009: Credit CARD Act of 2009
June 22, 2009: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
June 24, 2009: Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 including the Car Allowance Rebate System (Cash for Clunkers)
October 28, 2009: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, including the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act,
November 6, 2009: Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009
December 16, 2009: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010
February 12, 2010: Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act
March 4, 2010: Travel Promotion Act of 2009
March 18, 2010: Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act
March 23, 2010: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
March 30, 2010: Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, including the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act
May 5, 2010: Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010
July 1, 2010: Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010
July 21, 2010: Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
August 3, 2010: Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
August 10, 2010: SPEECH Act
September 27, 2010: Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010

[rhytonen]

58. Nancy for Liz Warren's VP, in 2016

I want to see Warren/Pelosi in 2016.

Nancy is the most politically astute Speaker in recent history.

In addition to her decisively qualifying skills,
who wouldn't want to see McConnell's and McCain's faces
when, as President of the Senate,
she cast the deciding vote to NUKE rule 22?