Does Barack Obama understand what he’s up against? The Republicans have no interest in working to solve our nation’s problems, and they never have:
“Senate Republicans have requested information about Attorney General nominee Eric Holder’s role in the Elian Gonzalez controversy as part of a broad probe into his tenure with the Clinton administration and potential ties to presidential scandals during that era.
Eight of nine GOP members on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote Clinton Presidential Library Director Terry Garner on Thursday to ask for 10 categories of material, and that includes any information on Holder’s involvement with the Cuban boy seized by U.S. agents in April 2000.
Holder was deputy attorney general at the time. While the senators have publicly stated concerns about Holder’s role in the 2001 pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, the move to focus attention on the highly controversial Gonzalez case indicates the confirmation of President-elect Obama’s top law enforcement official will be anything but smooth.
Seeking information about Gonzalez suggests Republicans are seeking issues that will resonate outside the Beltway, unlike the Rich pardon.”
Just in case you forgot what we lived through during the Clinton administration, this past week should have jogged your memory. As always, Digby gets to the heart of the matter:
“It’s quite clever. They are just picking up right where they left off in 2000 as if the Bush administration never happened, perhaps even drawing lines between the old and new if they’ play their cards right. And the press seems eager to go there with them.
I can see why they’d want to pretend the Bush years were just a bad dream. After all, they were exposed as shills and dupes for an immoral, incompetent president. But they still consider their glory days to be those they spent chasing trumped up Clinton corruption scandals and poking around in the president’s pants. To the best of my knowledge they have never admitted in the smallest way that their obsession with tabloid scandal and character assassination was intrinsic to the disgusting, politics that came of age in that era. Why wouldn’t they want to go back there? They had a ball.”
