Pandering Burr
Submitted by James on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 8:29am
The Winston-Salem Journal does an excellent job today dissecting the blatant political posturing of Bank Run Burr's in the matter of Obama's U.S. Attorney choice.
North Carolina's junior U.S. senator, Kay Hagan, has let the Obama administration know that she also opposes Holding being replaced until he is through with his investigation. But as a Democrat, her stand in that regard keeps partisan politics out of the situation. She's supporting a Republican in the job until it is complete.
Burr should have stayed out of this. By announcing that he will block Walker, he makes it appear that someone was going to push the nomination through, and thus replace Holding, when there is no evidence of any such thing. To the contrary, Hagan is positioned to keep that from happening. And she can do so without partisan overtones.
Sad to say, but Burr looks as if he is pandering to his party base on a matter of criminal justice.
Partisan politics do not belong in the Justice Department. During Bush's second term, White House power brokers fired several Republicans who they determined were not adequately pursuing investigations of Democratic politicians. It was a stain on our justice system.
Emphasis added.
"Looks as if?" You gotta be kidding. Senator Burr has done nothing besides political pandering since the minute he was elected. Why should he stop now?
Read that last paragraph again ... it's well written and it's important. Burr's engaging in pure self interest at the expense of the integrity of our justice system. It's wrong for Perdue to do that, and it's wrong for The Lawnmower Man as well.
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I hate to do the GOP's work for them...
...but as I was listening to the "Glee" soundtrack the other day (like you do), I have to wonder why Republicans aren't blaring Avril Lavigne's "Keep Holding On" about this:
Of course Burr will keep Holding on
According to opensecrets.org George Holding US Attorney for the Eastern District contributed $3000 to the Burr campaign in 2003 through 2004 while Holding was in the US Attorney's office. Holding also contributed $4000 to Jesse Helms; $5000 to the Leadership Circle PAC run by Elizabeth Dole; $500 to Lauch Faircloth and $500 to the American Spirit PAC run by Bill Graham who sought to unseat Mike Easley.
The Holding family have run First Citizens bank since the 1920s. Lewis Hoding, George's uncle, contributed $4250 to Burr.
George's other uncle and/or cousin,Frank B. Holding and Frank Holding Jr., have just been accused of running a potential insider trading scheme with Tony Rand. They have denied such a scheme. But who would investigate those accusations in the US Dept of Justice? Their relative?
In any event, if political contributions are the basis for blue carding Obama's nomination, Burr should recuse himself from such antics given the conflict that exists resulting from the contributions Holding made to him.