Also Standard Operating Procedure. There’s a double meaning there.

“… I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.”

the downturn began in December 2007, nearly one full year after a Democratic Congress came to power.

Correct, and lets not forget that the financial crisis did not break until the fall of 2008, nearly two years after Democrats took control of both chambers of congress.

Let’s see how well the idea of prosecuting people who talked about killing or capturing members of Al Qaeda goes over with the American public… about 99% of whom also talked about killing or capturing members of Al Qaeda.

Demonrats, your party sucks.

(1) the lunatic moonbats who believed Obama would take more drastic action to roll back the policies and decisions of the Bush Administration and his Justice Department are already pissed at Obama for that, as well as the fact that he hasn’t done a bunch of other things he promised them like the repeal of DADT, DOMA, etc.–letting Holder go forward with this would appease them;

(2) it’s not a coincidence that when commenting on this Holder said: “I hope that whatever decision I make would not have a negative impact on the president’s agenda,” Holder told Newsweek. “But that can’t be a part of my decision.” OBVIOUSLY, Obama has considered the political backlash that could result if it turns out that even a majority of his supporters think it is a waste of time and money down the road. This statement made by Holder was calculated to try and shield Obama from any negative political blow-back from the prosecutions (suddenly we are supposed to believe that Holder is Mr. Independent–please!); and

(3) investigations/prosecutions against our own countrymen would be entirely consistent with the Obama Doctrine of begging our enemies for forgiveness–Obama is a naive fool who thinks that punishing American agents for “torturing” the homicidal maniacs that want to destroy us will magically transform them into America-loving supporters of freedom and democracy. In other words, I don’t give a flying fu*k how this affects Obama’s polling numbers. We should only be concerned with the message it would send to our enemies–we are not only too weak and pathetic to fight them, but we’re also committed to punishing those among us who would dare to have the courage to stand against them.

So, I think it is very likely that this disgusting witchhunt against the very people trying to keep us safe IS going forward. And Obama’s statements in the past that he doesn’t support the investigations is just more lies. He absolutely supports them–he’s just too much of a coward to risk the political heat that could result, so he’s instructed Holder to go forward, but to make specific statements in the press to give the impression that Holder is this principled enforcer of justice, White House be damned. What we have here is Obama, once again, voting “present” on a critical issue. Unfortunately, this issue involves the prosecution of Americans defending our country and it will embolden our enemies. This makes Obama not only a liar and a coward, but also a worthless, irredeemable scumbag.

And then there are the rest of us.