What’s interesting in the news today?
1. You gotta love Judge Jeanine. Pointing out the obvious.
Nobody is ever held accountable in this admin.
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2. Yet another example. He’s in contempt, and continues to show his contempt for American laws.
From BizPacReview “A Washington, D.C., federal judge rebuked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday for overstepping his authority and disrespecting the judicial process.
“I regret that, before we voted on the amendment, Attorney General Holder instructed assistant United States attorneys across the nation not to object to defense requests to apply the proposed amendment in sentencing proceedings going forward,” Judge William Pryor Jr. said at a public hearing, according to the National Review. “That unprecedented instruction disrespected our statutory role ‘as an independent commission in the judicial branch,’ to establish sentencing policies and practices under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.”
“When fellow Commissioner Jonathan Wroblewski tried to defend Holder by calling his behavior was lawful and respectful, Chief Judge Rosario Hinojosa rebuffed him, accusing Holder of setting “a dangerous precedent.”
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3. Ted Cruz has the answer to the Holder problem.
From TheWashingtonTimes “Sen. Ted Cruz said Attorney General Eric Holder ought to be impeached if he doesn’t take tough action against former IRS official Lois Lerner, who’s been tied to the agency’s targeting-of-tea-partyers scandal.
During a talk with Sean Hannity on the host’s radio show on Thursday, Mr. Cruz called Mr. Holder the “most partisan attorney general the country has ever had,” and said that he should be impeached for “defying Congress and the rule of law,” Breitbart reported.”
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4. Blood sucking leeches.
From HotAir “Shakedown: Treasury now seizing tax refunds from adult children to pay parents’ decades-old Social Security debts”
“When I say “debts,” I don’t mean loans that the parents willingly sought from SSA. It would be bad enough to hold a kid responsible for that (since when are children responsible for their parents’ obligations?), but at least it would have been voluntarily incurred by mom/dad. The “debts” here are overpayments of Social Security benefitss problem. But wait. It gets worse.
When [Mary] Grice was 4, back in 1960, her father died, leaving her mother with five children to raise. Until the kids turned 18, Sadie Grice got survivor benefits from Social Security to help feed and clothe them.
Now, Social Security claims it overpaid someone in the Grice family — it’s not sure who — in 1977. After 37 years of silence, four years after Sadie Grice died, the government is coming after her daughter. Why the feds chose to take Mary’s money, rather than her surviving siblings’, is a mystery…”
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Wandering Views 
Holder will never be impeached. As a guy said on Fox News Sunday, “Holder and Obama use race both as a shield and a weapon.”
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1. “Nobody is ever held accountable in this admin.” The coffee almost came out of my nose when I read this especially the qualifier —“in this admin” You have to be incredibly naive or taking a Rip Van Winkle nap to think previous admins have been held accountable. Admins are rarely held accountable … you can base a whole war on a lie and retire to live life as an artist, you might even be invited on cable news as a commentator. They may even name airports after you or your wife may become a leading contender for the presidency. Accountability is for poor schmucks like teachers not politicians. And to be perfectly fair its not just politicians or the public sector but in the private sector you can bankrupt the entire world’s economy, hold the gov’t to ransom with the threat of economic collapse, commit massive mortgage fraud and still collect a million dollar bonus the next year.
4. I like your outrage here — why hold children accountable for parents misdeeds, debt should not survive death; and its fairly OT biblical if I remember the year of jubilee correctly. Banks will definitely tighten up their lending policies, but still as a general principle its a good one. And if you think this SocSec story is bad google student loan horror stories.
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Military officers are being held accountable, they’re losing their jobs in large numbers.
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Yeah HRW,
Bush really pulled one over on everybody by making up that lie right?
Oh wait, no, that was our intelligence community, repeated by Bush, Clinton, Kerry, Reid, Pelosi………
You’re right, that’s just like this…. 🙄
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Let’s see….
Lerner-not held accountable.
Holder- not held accountable.
Hillary- not held accountable.
Kerry- also not held accountable.
Head of the ATF for FandF- not held accountable.
I could go on.
Giving someone tax payer funded retirement is not holding them accountable.
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And military officers aren’t being held accountable for wrongdoing. They’re being purged for not being liberal enough, not wanting to make the military a liberal social experiment, and for not playing politics with our nations defense. That’s not accountability, that’s revenge by the RE, never served, have no clue how defense should be done, liberal leaders. Not the same at all.
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Black Panthers not being held accountable for blocking polling places.
Taliban, Al Qaida not held accountable for Ben Ghazi.
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It’s entirely bizarre to read thoughts like hwesseli’s #1 up there, then see those same kinds of people urge us to entrust so much of our lives to governments *composed* of so many unaccountable folks. Just totally weird.
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HRW
About your comments, “I got nothin’.”
If Jay Carney needs a replacement…
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That’s a typical liberal argument. “Well, I bet you do it too.”
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Meanwhile, Putin tries to show he is tough enough to be an ally of Texas.
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HRW – The difference is that the Year of Jubilee was known of & anticipated by the people, & they planned accordingly.
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Children should not be held accountable for the actions of their parents. A four year old had nothing to say about any finances. To come out years later, with no proof of any kind and try to shake down the family member is too disgusting to be believed. In fact, adult children cannot control their parent’s finances. If the government took decades to find these errors, it is too bad. The time to come after anything owed is when the estate is being handled by next of kin and closed.
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What is shocking to me–I read the article in the paper the other day–is SSN doesn’t even provide proof. Who knows what the truth is or why? That’s not the American system of justice, is it?
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Michelle – I found that shocking, too, & disturbing.
A few minutes ago, I saw a headline that they will cease this ridiculousness. Good.
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Here it is…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/social-security-stops-trying-to-collect-on-old-taxpayer-debts/2014/04/14/9355c58e-c40f-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboPN_p
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1012 days until the next Presidential Inauguration — Friday January 20, 2017
1/20/2017
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