{"id":6238,"date":"2012-06-11T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2012-06-11T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:16:36","slug":"contempt-for-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"Contempt for Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57450110-503544\/house-committee-schedules-contempt-vote-against-holder\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/oversight.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\">House Oversight Committee<\/a> will hold a vote next week on holding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/ag\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Holder<\/a> in contempt over his refusal to answer questions pertaining to the <a href=\"http:\/\/issues.oversight.house.gov\/fastandfurious\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fast &#038; Furious&#8221;<\/a> gunwalking program.<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" background=\"#333333\" width=\"425\" height=\"279\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" FlashVars=\"si=254&#038;contentValue=50126080&#038;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=7411252n\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From an election standpoint, I don&#8217;t see Holder being charged with contempt as having much of an effect on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s re-election<\/a> chances simply because the economy is such an overriding factor right now.  I suspect that is why Obama has not given Holder the boot because I cannot otherwise see having him around this long after the scandal become public has been a plus for this administration unless there&#8217;s something <i>really<\/i> good going on behind the scenes that nobody knows about.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D6238&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6238\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6238\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6238\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS reports that the House Oversight Committee will hold a vote next week on holding Eric Holder in contempt over his refusal to answer questions pertaining to the &#8220;Fast &#038; Furious&#8221; gunwalking program. From an election standpoint, I don&#8217;t see Holder being charged with contempt as having much of an effect on Obama&#8217;s re-election chances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D6238&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6238\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6238\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6238\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2012","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}