{"id":4329,"date":"2010-03-19T14:27:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2010-03-19T14:27:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:27:48","slug":"eric-holder-would-be-fired-if-obamacare-were-already-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4329\/eric-holder-would-be-fired-if-obamacare-were-already-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder Would Be Fired If Obamacare Were Already Passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week, and now there are two articles dissecting Eric Holder\u2019s tumultuous ride as United States Attorney General.\u00a0 In one,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/19\/eric_holders_massive_ineptness_104832.html \" target=\"_blank\"> Michael Gerson lists five consequential mistakes<\/a>, any one of which would be enough to spur the Democratic blogosphere into a feeding frenzy had Alberto Gonzalez been the culprit.\u00a0 Among his transgressions are incoherently keeping some Bush era terrorism policies while changing others.\u00a0 The effect is creating a man without a constituency.\u00a0 Then, there are the quickly reversed decisions to try certain terrorists in civilian court, close down the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, and give <em>Miranda<\/em> warnings to the undie-bomber.<\/p>\n<p>Almost forgot; Holder\u2019s planned indictments of John Yoo and Jay Bybee fizzled after being dismissed by the Justice Department\u2019s top career attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1973279,00.html \" target=\"_blank\">Massimo Calabresi attempts to explain away<\/a> any threat to Holder\u2019s job security as the product of partisan Republicans.\u00a0 However, he doesn\u2019t give one example of a major Holder decision carrying the day.<\/p>\n<p>The overriding prominence of Obamacare is certainly benefiting Holder because it is shielding him from a much-deserved performance review.\u00a0 \u00a0Sacking him now would only add to the perception that the Obama Cabinet is staffed by people who couldn\u2019t manage themselves out of a paper bag.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the specter of Kathleen Sebelius, Eric Holder has made his presence felt in this administration.\u00a0 If President Obama ever gets a string of wins, don\u2019t be surprised to see Holder announcing his intention to return to the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week, and now there are two articles dissecting Eric Holder\u2019s tumultuous ride as United States Attorney General.\u00a0 In one, Michael Gerson lists five consequential mistakes, any one of which would be enough to spur the Democratic blogosphere into a feeding frenzy had Alberto Gonzalez been the culprit.\u00a0 Among his transgressions are incoherently keeping some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,498,980,316,746,536],"class_list":["post-4329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-eric-holder","tag-guantanamo-bay","tag-justice-department","tag-terror-trial","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}