[Fox News] The Justice Department moved Friday to shield Attorney General Eric Stonewall Holder from prosecution after the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.
The contempt vote technically opened the door for the House to call on the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to bring the case before a grand jury. But because U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen works for Holder and because President B.O. has already asserted executive privilege over the documents in question, some expected Holder's Justice Department to balk.
Deputy Attorney General James Cole confirmed in a letter to House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... that the department in fact would not pursue prosecution. The attorney general's withholding of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, he wrote, "does not constitute a crime."
"Therefore the department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general," Cole wrote, in the letter obtained by Fox News.
A department official told Fox News the letter was "pro forma" -- or a formality -- considering that ex-Attorney General Michael Mukasey in 2008 also refused to refer two Bush White House aides to a grand jury after they were held in contempt.
Republicans nevertheless blasted the Justice Department for the move. Frederick Hill, front man for House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, said "it is regrettable that the politicianship of the Justice Department is trying to intervene in an effort to prevent the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from making an independent decision about whether to prosecute this case."
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The DOJ is now a security apparatus for the choom gang, not the United States of America.
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and make Obama answer whether he'll pardon Holder when Obama and his corrupt cult's voted out. Every news conference. Every debate. Every time. Let the DOJ and BATFE higher-ups know there's gonna be hell to pay for malfeasance.
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Being held in contempt of congress may prevent him from a future Supreme Court position. Then again, it may not.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders will join family and friends in Los Angeles at a public funeral service for Rodney King. Somehow that sounds about right...
Sharpton, who says in a statement that King was "a symbol of civil rights" who "represented the anti-police brutality and anti-racial profiling movement of our time," will deliver the eulogy Saturday at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.
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Ag virphuechssake! The Eulogy I anxiously await is that of Sharpton.
Chief Justice John Roberts, normally a reliably conservative member of the Supreme Court, stunned quite a number of people when he sided with the four more liberal justices and upheld the entire Affordable Care Act yesterday. On The O'Reilly Factor today, guest host Laura Ingraham gauged the right's reaction to the ruling, and one of her guests went as far to suggest that Roberts should resign from the bench.
Ingraham asked her guests if conservatives are right to feel "mortified" about Roberts being a turncoat. Michael Carvin, a constitutional lawyer opposed to Obamacare who argued before the Supreme Court on this case, boiled Roberts' decision down to "What Congress did... was unconstitutional, so I'm gonna pretend they did something different and make it constitutional." He credited Roberts for being "a terrific lawyer who understands the rule of law," but admitted that unlike Coulter, he did not see a ruling like this coming.
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Obama to Soldiers: Pay Up Threatens to veto bill unless it hikes health care fees for service members
The Obama administration on Friday threatened to veto a defense appropriations bill in part because it does not include higher health care fees for members of the military.
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as ex air force officer, I would ask how much more they want the military to put up. I reckon a E6 and above could come up with a morsel of a few bucks if only for the co-pay. I don't know if there is even one with tricare. It was really nice having free health care, back in the day, with children, if you could get through being on hold on the phone forever back in the 80's
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Covering the medical costs of the less than one percent of the most physically fit Americans who volunteer to serve their country should not have a huge financial impact. However, opening the door for the enlistment of alternative lifestyles and HIV high risk groups has long term consequences.
Obama, who has never pulled on a pair of boots, is well aware that his popularity among military member is not strong, particularly those who have made the military their career. This is yet another disincentive or penalty tax for those not fully on board the Obama Train. He "knows who they are and he will not forget."
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Do you suppose this is a run up to screwing up the overseas military voting again?
What an utter and complete ass. Hells bells, even my name sake who at times seemed to loathe the military would have never proposed such a thing.
Even Hildabeast, when she and Ira Magaziner were writing their healthcare monster did not consider this. AND back then Ms. Hillary had no love at all for the military.
I just want this nightmare to end. I want to wake up in the morning and realize it is all a very bad dream.
We were warned. The evidence of who he was and what he was, was there all the time. The independents and the centrists who were not true believers of either side of the aisle, could have tipped a different direction.
Could John McCain have straightened out the economy, I don't know, I do know the president is violating every common sense rule of monetary policy and is driving our economy into the ground.
I do know, under McCain, we would not have Obamacare (duh) nor would we have had those nauseating bailouts of the auto unions. I also have no doubt we would be drilling for oil, hell bent for election everywhere right now and maybe the economy would be up in a nursing unit instead of on life support down in the economic ICU.
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This is just a part of a systematic process in taking down the military by the O admin.
The borders and illegals are part of the plan to dismantle the country piece by piece.
We have an enemy more dangerous than al Q and co.
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Absolutely, Alaska Paul. These are very bad guys. And the bad guys have taken over the high ground in the United States of America and they are going to use every effort, criminal and dirty to keep the high ground.
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Do civilian government employees have to pay more? If not, why not?
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Do civilian government employees have to pay more? If not, why not?
Civil service employees pick from an array of medical and dental plans, with varying co-pays and 'benefits'. They pay for the plans themselves out of pocket; the government doesn't kick in anything.
TriCare is a bit different in that the DoD is the primary payer; members/dependents co-pay.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Republican White House challenger Mitt Romney renewed his campaign pledge Thursday to seek to repeal health care reforms from his first day in office if he wins the November elections.
Speaking just hours after the US Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's signature reforms, Romney said: "What the court did not do on the last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States, and that is that I will act to repeal 'Obamacare.'"
In a hastily called address, Romney argued that despite the court's ruling they "did not... say that Obama care is good law or that it is good policy.
Obama care was bad policy yesterday. It's bad policy today.
"Obama care was bad law yesterday. It is bad law today," he said arguing that the Affordable Care Act would raise taxes, cause the national deficit to balloon and make up to 20 million Americans lose the insurance they already had.
Some 75 percent of businesses surveyed had also said that the requirement to provide health insurance would force them to scale back hiring, he said.
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Re the falsehoods of OC: "If your mother tells you the tooth fairly will leave $0.25 under your pillow doesn't make it true. Just because someone says something is true doesn't make it true."
[ObammerCare and costs] "...is like throwing gasoline on a fire and then having to get a bigger fire extinguisher."
Amen. However, there are many Americans who think Obamacare is paid for with Obama Dollars--that is it is free.
So has anyone read the 2700 pages of this albatross? No one knows the cost of this turkey is because of the poison pills in the bill. Moreover, ObamaCare seems to be whatever Sebelius, H&HS deems it to be in the future. If entitlements are out of control now, wait until the full effects of this monster hits.
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The Justice Department moved Friday to shield Attorney General 
Deputy Attorney General James Cole confirmed in a letter to House Speaker 
The Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders will join family and friends in Los Angeles at a public funeral service for Rodney King.
Chief Justice John Roberts, normally a reliably conservative member of the Supreme Court, stunned quite a number of people when he sided with the four more liberal justices and upheld the entire Affordable Care Act yesterday. On The O'Reilly Factor today, guest host Laura Ingraham gauged the right's reaction to the ruling, and one of her guests went as far to suggest that Roberts should resign from the bench.
