Attorney General Eric Holder is apparently no longer willing to hold his tongue and is clearly fed up with outlandish charges and accusations from Republicans, particularly from Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, and House Republicans.
Holder expressed his disgust with Palin during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” Addressing her call for the impeachment of President Barack Obama, he said that Palin, Sen. John McCain’s running mate in 2008, “wasn’t a particularly good vice presidential candidate. She’s an even worse judge of who ought to be impeached and why.”
He also suggested that the attacks on the president may be a result of “racial animus” from the Republicans.
“For whatever reason, [some] Republicans decided early on that this was a president they were just simply not going to cooperate with,” Holder said on the broadcast. “And over the past five-and-a-half years, we have seen demonstrations of that, where the president has reached out his hand, offered compromises that have simply not been met [in the way] they have been in the past by a Republican Party willing to do the appropriate things.”
Palin’s call to impeach Obama is not the first time someone from the Republican quarter has made this demand, based mainly on the president’s Affordable Care Act and his handling of the immigration issue now percolating at the Mexican border.
Holder’s reference that Palin’s outrageous request of impeachment lacked any validity is that legally, the president can only be impeached for treason or high crimes and misdemeanors, none of which pertains to Obama or his administration.
There is also the complaint that the president is exercising too much of his executive authority, and even this allegation is warrantless, especially when you compare the number of executive orders carried out by Obama and previous presidents.
“It’s a more, I think, a political gesture than a truly legal one,” Holder observed. “Filing a lawsuit against the president that has no basis is not going to improve the quality of life for the American people. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There’s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there’s a racial animus.”
Several months ago, during his appearance at the National Action Network’s annual convention, Holder alluded to some of the things that he has now fully expressed.
