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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House press release calls the contempt vote "a transparently political stunt"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/28/statement-white-house-communications-director-dan-pfeiffer-today-s-conteThe White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 28, 2012
Statement by White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer on Todays Contempt Vote in the U.S. House of Representatives
At the beginning of this year, Republicans announced one of their top priorities was to investigate the Administration and to ensure that President Obama was a one-term President. Despite the major economic challenges facing the country, they talked openly about devoting taxpayer-funded, Congressional oversight resources to political purposes.
The problem of gunwalking was a field-driven tactic that dated back to the George W. Bush Administration, and it was this Administrations Attorney General who ended it. Attorney General Holder has said repeatedly that fighting criminal activity along the Southwest Border including the illegal trafficking of guns to Mexico has been is a top priority of the Department. Eric Holder has been an excellent Attorney General and just yesterday the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee acknowledged that he had no evidence or even the suspicion that the Attorney General knew of the misguided tactics used in this operation.
Yet, Republicans pushed for political theater rather than legitimate Congressional oversight. Over the past fourteen months, the Justice Department accommodated Congressional investigators, producing 7,600 pages of documents, and testifying at eleven Congressional hearings. In an act of good faith, this week the Administration made an additional offer which would have resulted in the Committee getting unprecedented access to documents dispelling any notion of an intent to mislead. But unfortunately, a politically-motivated agenda prevailed and instead of engaging with the President in efforts to create jobs and grow the economy, today we saw the House of Representatives perform a transparently political stunt.
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White House press release calls the contempt vote "a transparently political stunt" (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jun 2012
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seabeyond
(110,159 posts)1. yea, them. nt
C_U_L8R
(45,047 posts)2. Its more than a stunt... it's a joke
the GOP must be total buffoons.
Really spiteful and petty buffoons.