House of Eratosthenes

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been critical of Arizona’s new immigration law, said Thursday he hasn’t yet read the law and is going by what he’s read in newspapers or seen on television.

Mr. Holder is conducting a review of the law, at President Obama’s request, to see if the federal government should challenge it in court. He said he expects he will read the law by the time his staff briefs him on their conclusions.

“I’ve just expressed concerns on the basis of what I’ve heard about the law. But I’m not in a position to say at this point, not having read the law, not having had the chance to interact with people are doing the review, exactly what my position is,” Mr. Holder told the House Judiciary Committee.

This weekend Mr. Holder told NBC’s “Meet the Press” program that the Arizona law “has the possibility of leading to racial profiling.” He had earlier called the law’s passage “unfortunate,” and questioned whether the law was unconstitutional because it tried to assume powers that may be reserved for the federal government.

Rep. Ted Poe, who had questioned Mr. Holder about the law, wondered how he could have those opinions if he hadn’t yet read the legislation.

“It’s hard for me to understand how you would have concerns about something being unconstitutional if you haven’t even read the law,” the Texas Republican told the attorney general.

The object of the exercise, aside from the instant-democrat-voters and the cheap labor, is anarchy. Every good destroyer of civilizations knows the first step is to take the illegal and make it kinda-sorta-a-little-bit-legal. This whole thing with skin color is just a diversion from what’s being done.

It was not quite so long ago when President Obama, Holder’s boss, presented a turkey of a health care plan to Congress…or to be more precise about it, Congress presented it to Him. There were all kinds of objections against it much more valid than the one about the Arizona law leading to racial profiling. Obama’s response was to give a zillion and one wonderful speeches, each one more impressive than the last…which is to say President Obama inhaled and exhaled during this time. In His speeches He regularly called to Republicans to “come up with ideas of your own” if they could. Which they had done, actually.

But it interests me that I’m not hearing that kind of rhetoric now. Arizona is being invaded and Arizona has given up waiting for the feds to enforce the laws; they’ve taken the job on themselves for the sake of gettin’ it done. We hear all this talk about “could lead to racial profiling” and I’m not hearing too often of anyone saying “Hey! If you don’t think this is the right answer, come up with some answers of your own!”

I find that interesting. Isn’t that just the logical inquiry, assuming these critics are to be taken seriously?

Update 5/15/10: FrankJ comments as only he can:

Eric Holder is really sure the Arizona bill is a bad bill worthy of condemnation even though he never read it. It’s kinda like with the Democrats saying how super important it was to pass the health care bill even though none of them knew what was in it.

So why don’t Democrats read bills? I can think of two possibilities:

1. They have magical psychic powers and can know what’s in a bill without reading it.

2. They’re illiterate.

The politicians often argue they’re just too busy to read all these bills they’re voting on and commenting on. Busy doing what, though? Don’t they get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to make laws and enforce laws? Wouldn’t you think part of that generous salary would be maybe reading those laws? What exactly do they do all day to earn their money? They already have these useless jobs where just sit around and talk and occasionally vote; is it really so much to ask they do some honest work and read these important bills? The Arizona one they’re all freaking out about isn’t even that long.

Maybe we should write all our bills in Spanish. Then we can hire illegal aliens to read them since apparently that’s yet another one of those jobs Americans won’t do.

Good point, Morgan.

Yea, we’ve been lectured over and over again by Pres. O, his administration and his supporters that we; take things out of context (Rev. Wright), haven’t read the bill (health care) and are called every name in the book including racists and even “cowards” by Holder himself on any number of policies objections.

And yet the AG, as the top legal advisor to the federal government, goes out and citizens a state law that is actually LESS severe that the federal law that he is in no small part responsible to uphold.

For these clowns presently occupying the most important positions of our government this isn’t about racism, discrimination , right or wrong, legal or illegal. No, it’s about an agenda, an ideology that is out of step with a overwhelming majority of this country, Republicans and Democrats alike.

This nation‘s sovereignty , like all nations, is only as strong as our borders are secure.
We don’t need “immigration reform”, we merely need to enforce our damn laws already on the books.

If the AG doesn’t understand that simple fact then he isn’t qualified to hold that position. Something Holder proves just about very other day.
- tim | 05/14/2010 @ 09:35
Holder’s an affirmative action baby, and we all know it. Obama’s whole house is full colorful incompetence, that’s the way the liberals play. Shade over matter.
- Daphne | 05/14/2010 @ 19:07
Yes, I am a racist. Deal with it.
- Daphne | 05/14/2010 @ 19:07
Sure you are, Daphne. 😉 I totally believe that, yeah.

As Mr. Beck pointed out last week, Holder’s forming an opinion of the bill on what he’s heard and read in the media comes on the heels of Obama telling us that we’re over-informed. (Of course, the next logical step would be for the Government to start telling us who to listen to, who not to listen to, and what to believe. And if that doesn’t work they’ll use “the persuasion of power” [@0:32], like all of the other good central planners).

Fact of the matter is a congressman spends most of his time on the phone trolling for money to get re-elected and for money to help his fellow party-mates get elected. They reverse-lobby for money, and are beholden to large special interest groups … especially community organized behemouths like the Apollo Alliance who then write these bills and hand them to Congressional comittee members to file and vote on. Why read the bills? The congressmen already got the money. To hold up their end of the deal all they have to do is vote the way they promised.
- philmon | 05/17/2010 @ 10:44
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