Friday, October 7, 2011

Race to impeach:Solyndra or Fast and Furious?

Don Surber,Charleston (WV) Daily Mail

Two evolving scandals are neck to neck in the race to impeach President Obama. While Fast and Furious — the ATF gun-running for Mexican drug lords — is the more imaginative of the two scandals,House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns are following the money on Solyndra. Keep the dreamy name (adding gate to it would ruin the charm). They have the edge as they already are at what-did-he-know and when-did-he-know-it stage.
First,the latest on Fast and Furious,from the Houston Chronicle:
WASHINGTON — The new acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday he was reassigning 11 of the agency’s top officials in a bid to rebuild ATF after Operation Fast and Furious,in which agents let U.S.-purchased guns slip into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones said the reshuffling will help the agency focus on its “core missions of violent crime and public safety” and bring about “a certain level of accountability” in the wake of the controversy.
“We’re going to hit the reset button,” said Jones,the successor to Kenneth Melson,who resigned in late August as acting director.
Reset button. I guess in an administration of academicians,everyone plagiarizes everything.
Of course,Eric the Pardoner Holder knows nothing. Nothing!
From the House Energy and Commerce Committee….
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