NRA News: Rep. Darrell Issa on Attorney General Holder’s Fast and Furious Testimony
Ginny Simone talks to Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) about Attorney General’s testimony about Operation Fast and Furious in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
AngolaPress Reports: “Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control”
The international media has noted something that the mainstream media in the United States either fails to grasp OR wants to conceal from the American public. The gun lobby’s power is voters. Consider this bit from this weekend’s AngolaPress story focusing on Mayor Bloomberg’s recent push with his Mayors Against Illegal Guns ad that was scheduled to run during the Super Bowl:
Candidates for local and national office in the U.S. have faced sharp backlashes for advocating restraints on gun ownership, such as assault weapons or guns on campus. Such pushes draw fire from the well-funded National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies. For many defenders of the Constitution’s Second Amendment – the right to bear arms – guns are the single issue on which they vote.
Read that final sentence. Doesn’t this clearly explain that the power of the NRA is convincing voters? “Guns are the single issue on which they vote.” Now the anti-gun crowd might not like this fact, and the media may even try to hide this truth, but this is the actual power of the NRA – that it speaks to those who are single issue voters.
The article adds:
Democrats, who are more likely than Republicans to favor some restrictions on gun ownership, made a conscious decision to stay away from the gun issue in the 2010 midterm congressional elections. The aim: protect the so-called Blue Dog conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, who didn’t toe the party line on gun control. Most were defeated anyway.
If the Democratic Party hoped to keep the gun issue off center stage in the 2012 presidential race, MAIG’s campaign makes that unlikely. So does the fact that the NRA and the gun industry’s trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), have announced they will have a combined war chest of $225 million.
Now let’s take another view, if the Democrats have stayed away from this issue isn’t it because they are scared of losing the election? The anti-crowd cries foul and tries to point that the NRA has two much power, forgetting that it is really the single issue voters who are speaking their mind.
How is this different from other issues? It is in that the anti-gun crowd doesn’t want this to be a fair fight.
NRA News: Brian Terry’s Mother to Eric Holder: You’re ‘a Joke’ and a ‘Coward’
Cam Edwards talks to Lana Domino, friend of the Terry Family
Eric Holder – The Audacity of Contempt
This week numerous outlets reported that lawmakers including Rep Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) could hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt! This is the most outrageous turn of events – and not that the lawmakers might try this, but rather that the Eric Holder as the highest Justice Department official could actually be held in contempt!
Does this guy think he is above the laws he’s suppose to protect?
The Los Angeles Times actually has offered even coverage on this:
Reporting from Washington—House Republicans threatened Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. with a criminal contempt of Congress citation Thursday, alleging the Justice Department has refused for a year to turn over key documents in lawmakers’ investigation of the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
What remains shocking is not the circus that this has become, but rather that the mainstream media – with a few exceptions such as the LA Times – has sat on this story. Who needs a cover-up when the media doesn’t even try to uncover the facts?
NRA News: Rep. Trey Gowdy on Attorney General Holder’s Fast and Furious Testimony
Cam Edwards and Ginny Simone talk to Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) about Attorney General’s testimony about Operation Fast and Furious in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
NRA News: Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle on Attorney General Holder’s Fast and Furious Testimony
Ginny Simone talks to Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY) about Attorney General’s testimony about Operation Fast and Furious in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Brian Terry’s Family Alleges Fast and Furious Lies
This week our hearts really go out to the family of Brian Terry, the border control agent who was shot with a gun from the ATF’s Fast and Furious debacle, as The Los Angeles Times noted “Slain border agent’s family alleges lies over ATF gun program.” The paper reported:
The Terry family alleged that then-U.S. Atty. Dennis K. Burke told them last March that the two weapons came from a store in Texas and were not part of Fast and Furious.
This is just the latest twist we’re hearing, and suggests more of a cover up. Why would the ATF need to lie… unless every part of this debacle was already being covered up?
The article closes:
In fact, the notice says, “(then-U.S. Atty. Dennis K.) Burke actually knew within hours of Brian’s murder that they were purchased from a Phoenix gun shop under ATF surveillance the previous January” — a fact borne out by Burke’s emails.
We just ask again, why isn’t this story leading the nightly news? Where is the mainstream media outrage?
NRA News: In new ‘Fast and Furious’ Report, Democrats Clear Justice Appointees of Wrongdoing
Cam Edwards talks to Howard Nemerov from PJ Media
Holder in the Hot Seat – Blames Lack of Gun Control
So let’s get this straight, ATF ran an operation that saw a border control agent killed, and thousands of guns were let to walk to Mexico. And how does the Attorney General see it? It is a fault of lack of gun control in the United States, reports The Washington Examiner:
“ATF’s ability to stem the flow of guns from the United States into Mexico suffers from a lack of effective enforcement tools,” Holder told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. “Unfortunately, in 2011, a majority of House Members – including all members of the majority on this Committee – voted to keep law enforcement in the dark when individuals purchase multiple semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and long guns – like AK-47s – in gun shops in four southwest-border states.”
No one this guy won’t step down, he seems to actually believe the things that come out of his mouth!
GOP Says DOJ Knew About Fast and Furious
And so it begins a game of who said what, who knew what and lots of finger pointing. This week FoxNews reported, “GOP Report: Justice officials were on top of Fast and Furious,” noting:
Top Department of Justice officials had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, claims a new report released Thursday, hours before Attorney General Eric Holder’s scheduled testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
This of course comes following last week’s Democratic report that says DOJ was in the dark, and tried to “blame Bush” for the gunrunning debacle.
This is a story that we will of course continue to follow.
