***BREAKING*** ERIC HOLDER RESIGNS AS ATTORNEY GENERAL!

Well, I certainly didn't expect that. Thought he was a full-termer. He's lasted longer than most.

Why?

Holder says that he'll stay on until a successor is confirmed.

The way the Senate works now (or I should say doesn't work now) maybe no one will be confirmed.

Hey, it could happen!

Teabagistan is dancing in the streets over this. Such stupid, stupid people.

Didn't he say he was looking to leave?

r1=Sarah Palin

R4: Your comment makes no sense. You must be that one-note poster who needs to fill any political thread with bizarre rants against the Right when it's not even the topic. The Attorney General resigns for reasons unknown and you post some failing attempt at wit. Who is dancing in the streets? I realize you need to share "Teabagistan" and have tried hard to find a way to work it into dl, but stop. It's sad. If you were witty it would be one thing, but you try too hard and it fails.

Well said, R4!

Stop trying to make teabagistan happen Gretchen at R4. It's not going to happen

So r7 do you actually think the right isn't going to be k'velling over this?

So long to bad rubbish.

What the Hell are you talking about, r7? I went to news sites (including the one linked in this thread) and all the responses are from Teabaggers talking repeating the typical Fox News talking points about Holder. Sheesh.

It has to be a scandal. It wouldn't make sense otherwise.

All together now, hey hey hey...goodbye! nah nah nah nah!

Benghazi! Benghazi! Conspiracy! We want answers!!!

Sarcasm, of course

I smell Vice Presidential candidate and SECOND Black President!

R9, it already did happen. Use google to see, dumbass.

Are you too stupid to know that the teabaggers have the same mentality as the Taliban and everyone has known it for years?

It would be even more delicious if Kerry Stepped down and appointed Holder SOS.

Make "Teabagistan" happen? Double sheesh. It's just a silly little made-up word that you immediately recognized as referring to the group of idiots I meant. Oy.

The New Yorker profiled Holder in February and he said then that he planned to leave sometime this year.

The second year of the second Presidential term is the traditional time for staffers to leave. It's the best time to find a good job.

His leaving has nothing to do with anything but tradition.

And exhaustion with right-wing idiots. Seriously, that shit must get freaking OLD!

Obama needs to appoint someone with BALLS to go after Wall St. bankers and securities firms. Holder wouldn't do it and Elizabeth Warren had not received any support from him. Good riddance!

Fab-U-lous. Goodbye dullwood. Excuse darlings but I simply must go tinka tinka tee .......

He must be exhausted from going after all those Wall Street bankers who belonged in jail.

Good riddance to an incompetent racist piece of shit.

Oh, and the Rev Al claims he's helping Obama pick the next Attorney General.

GAG

LMAO, R16.

Maybe in Holder's lame fantasies.

It should have happened sooner.

[quote]Rev Al

Oh, stop with that shit. Rev is not his first name. He's fucking Al Sharpton.

[quote] Obama needs to appoint someone with BALLS to go after Wall St. bankers and securities firms.

What makes you think it was Holder's, or even Obama's, lack of balls that prevented them from going after the Wall St. bankers? Rather than simple cronyism?

His mission has been accomplished..turning the DOJ into a chapter of the NAACP.

(29) Who can forget those immortal words of Sharpton in Ferguson "he(Brown) was not stealing, he was shoplifting." One can see and hear more of his nonsense on MSNBC. Looks like the headhunters got a hold of his head..

Resigned or reassigned?

On Diane Rehm this morning, one of the reporters said his doctor wife was worried about his health after something happened a few months ago. He apparently signaled months ago that he'd be leaving. He needed to do it so Obama could nominate someone before the election.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Pat Fitzgerald would sail through a Senate confirmation. Plus he's BFF of Comey.

He HATES Wall Street.

dag who gonna keeps the dreems alive in fuguson missouri?

Obama wanted Kamala Harris, the State Attorney General of California, to take it but she turned him down in a heartbeat. She's half black and half Indian (the country, NOT Native American).

WTF R29. Good God.

I pointed out to several people today and I'm going to do it here as well - the majority of the coverage in papers, on television, on the Internet and even scrawled on toilet walls is about the reaction of the Right Wing to Holder's resignation.

Almost noting about Holder's resignation.

My observation did not register with anyone I spoke with, and it won't register in the DL either.

My guess is Holder got wind of trouble on the horizon from Congress and he decided to hot foot it out of Dodge before it erupted.

The Right is dancing in the streets I agree. Holder is one of the bright spots in this administration. I have always been a fan of his. I wish Obama would appoint him to the Supreme Court where he can be a thorn in the ass to Scalia, Thomas and Alito.

This is a huge loss to the administration. Holder was a stand up guy. He was a spur to the President. Without Holder to push him, he won't be as strong. There. I've said it.

Holder is a political hack who has damaged the integrity of the office of AG and the entire DOJ.

[quote]Obama needs to appoint someone with BALLS to go after Wall St. bankers and securities firms.

Don't hold your breath.

Wall St. no doubt shovels money into both parties. That money buys major influence.

As far as Wall Street goes Holder wanted a piece of them real bad. I know this for a fact. He wanted to charge in and nail them. Problem? A lot of what they did was legal. He was determined to make it stick, not just rattle his saber. if you bring charges and they beat the rap, it weakens your political position in terms of reform laws.

The whores in Congress don't get nearly enough blame for what happened in 2007,08,09,10. The other problem is that the politics weren't on his side. While it would've given a lot of us enormous satisfaction to see Jamie Dimond and others do the perp walk, alienating the financial institutions at a time when we needed to project financial stability to the world was, in the opinion of many, (not me) ill advised.

He was going to be outted and he left first.

He was one sided, selective & a pussy. Goodbye !

This makes Holder available to become a Supreme Court nominee.

R45 - what?

Your claim is investment firms have paid billions of dollars in fines because they didn't do anything illegal?

R26, Hey Mr. K, Happy Sunday

He's a white-hating racist cunt who pals around with Al Charlatan & calls the American ppl cowards. Good riddance.

r47, a brilliant idea to have an actual black man on the supreme court.

We also need a fierce black, someone who could read Uncle Thomas behind closed doors.

Maybe he just couldn't accept the bombings...we'll never know.

read: fierce black WOMAN...

He clearly is in love with Poz~Face Obama.

That's a terrible thing to say !