How did Eric Holder manage to stay at the Department of Justice this long? Why wasn't he pushed out sooner?
I don't think that Holder was pushed out, at all. He serves at the president's will, like any AG, once appointed, and by all accounts, President Obama was sorry to see him go. It seems clear that Holder acted as the president's proxy in some areas where Obama has felt he can't take an overt stand, especially regarding social justice and race--something one sees as recently as in Holder's trip to Ferguson, Missouri, and in the longer range in the Justice Department's unfolding focus on capital punishment and the inequalities and lack of efficacy in its application.The wording of this question contains a tacit assumption that Holder should have been pushed out sooner, or that he was pushed out at all, and I'm not sure this is accurate. Certainly it seems that he is leaving under his own steam--my sense is that Obama would prefer that he stay, perhaps partly because the confirmation battle for a new AG in a deadlocked congress is bound to be a messy one, and perhaps partly because Obama has consistently demonstrated a great deal of loyalty to his appointees.Whether Holder has "held on" as AG despite some of the failures on his watch--the position covers a lot of bureaucratic terrain and there certainly are some incidents in departments he oversees that have been unfortunate and messy--depends on how one parses the quality of his tenure. My sense is that Obama is canny enough to recognize the limits to any cabinet-level appointee's ability to control the inertial systems he or she oversees, and that Holder performed a very useful role for him, as a sort of proxy in matters of social justice.It seems clear to me that Holder is leaving for personal reasons, not being asked to go, and in that sense he has neither "held on" nor is being "pushed out." However one may judge his execution of his role., ultimately, he serves at the will of the president, and from everything I have read, Obama would have preferred that he stay in office.
What's the best Donald Trump joke you have heard?
A grocer owned a parrot.Every day, he would put the parrot cage outside, in front of his store, so the bird could catch a bit of sunshine.One morning, down the street comes Trump. The bird, happy to have an audience, starts screaming: ‘’Impeach Trump!!! Impeach Trump!!!’’This annoys Trump to the fullest but he says nothing, just walks by.The following day, Trumps comes around again and the parrot starts again: ‘’Impeach Trump!!!’’ ‘’Impeach Trump!!!’’Now Trump is getting really upset, he stares down the parrot, emits a few curses and leaves.The third day, the parrot continues his screaming as Trump approaches and Trump has enough.Storming into the store, he gives a piece of his mind to the grocer: ‘’If I hear that bird again, I will strangle him with my own hands and see that your store never sees a client for the rest of your miserable life!’’The grocer is very afraid, he has no control over the bird, he knows that whatever he does, he is lost. Then, he starts thinking… Our parish priest has a parrot, maybe, if I explain the problem, the priest will let me exchange birds until things calm down.And so, it is done. Next morning, the grocer puts out the priest’s parrot in front of the store and anxiously waits for Trump.As expected, Trump comes by, the bird is silent. Trump tries to stare it down, walks around it, but still not a word. Trump is speechless: how can it be? He says nothing and continues his walk.Same thing the next day, and the next.On the fourth day, Trump, being Trump, cannot take it anymore. He walks up to the bird and whispers to him: ‘’Impeach Trump, Impeach Trump’’, the bird ruffles its feathers but makes no sound.Maybe he did not hear me… so Trump, tries a bit louder: ‘’Impeach Trump, Impeach Trump’’, but still not a word from the bird.This gets Trump mad as hell; he wanted to wring this bird’s neck so bad and he has no reason to do it now. Getting real close to the parrot’s ears, he yells at the top of his lungs: ‘’Impeach Trump, Impeach Trump!!!’’The bird slowly turns its head, stares at Trump and calmly says: ‘’May God answer your prayers, my son!’’
Can anyone tell me the whole story on the BTK killer?
One of the best sites for this is America's Most Wanted: http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?i...
As a Trump supporter, how do you feel about the Trump administration wanting to end coverage for pre-existing conditions? Wouldn’t that financially affect voters including yourself as well?
People who moan and complain about a political issue in order to benefit their party usually have no idea about what the problem with ‘pre-existing conditions’ are. They seem to believe that having ‘the government’ write a check or forcing everyone to pay more will solve all the problems. It will not.Insurance is a pretty simple process that is made complicated by endless numbers of government rules and regulations made not to benefit the consumer or the taxpayer but insurance companies.President Trump is a pragmatic businessman and not a bought-and-paid for politician with his hand out to insurance or healthcare companies. He recognizes that there is a problem and wants to come up with solutions that protect people from healthcare cost situations at the lowest cost for everyone.If we had politicians who were interested in actually solving the problem and helping the American public by cooperating with the President, there are solutions that do not involve enriching insurance companies and impoverishing everyone else that they could investigate and adopt. Until then we will get the usual bellyaching and ignorant complaining about ‘pre-existing conditions’ that Democrats use as a political issue with no intentions of fixing. Most of Obama’s figures on ‘pre-existing conditions’ were calculated misrepresentations, made with political goals in mind.Get educated:ObamaCare — the myth of pre-existing conditions