Conservative and libertarian pundits like to say Eric Holder is among the most corrupt and racist attorneys general in U.S. history. He’s a bozo, alright, but that’s a lot of attorneys general.
I suspect many of his white predecessors were more racist. Even so-called liberal AG Robert Kennedy authorized the wiretapping of Dr. King. But corrupt? So I went to the tale of the tape, as a certain deceased sportscaster used to say.
The closest tape is Wikipedia—which I support even when I don’t agree with its content because it’s nice to have an encyclopedia on the Web and even the printed ones can be biased—and its historical recitation of federal political scandals suggests that, so far, Holder is an amateur when it comes to corruption, at least.
True, the Wikipedia entry does manage to ignore Holder’s department’s secret subpoena of phone records of the Associated Press and spying on Fox News—you can find the info if you click through to his profile, however.
But even after you include his contempt of Congress citation over failure to answer questions about the Fast & Furious gun-running scheme to Mexico, Holder has a long way to go to catch up with his contemptible predecessors in the Reagan, Nixon, Harding and Grant administrations.
Given his recent push to ignore a Supreme Court ruling and try to tell Texas how to hold elections (good luck with that, bozo), not to mention trying to try George Zimmerman twice (now that’s racism!), I’m betting that Holder will be up there with the superstars of racism and corruption by the next presidential go round in 2016.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 