Thursday, December 4, 2008

The best part of Eric Holder's nomination as AG

It has reminded everyone of the Clinton administration's unconscionable pardon of Marc Rich back in January 2001, due to Holder's role in it. It won't stop Holder's confirmation; but look what it does do:

"Senate Democrats have generally accepted Holder’s admission that he regretted his role in the decision-making process over the pardon. They place the blame on Clinton, not Holder, who was deputy attorney general at the time. “Eric Holder has said [the pardon] happened in the last few hours — literally, the last few hours, as almost the president-elect and the outgoing president were heading up to Capitol Hill,” Leahy told reporters Monday. “And he said he wished he'd probably taken a stronger position on that. “It really wouldn't have made any difference what Eric Holder or anybody else said," Leahy said. "But it wasn’t Eric Holder that gave the pardon. It was President Bill Clinton that did.”

Finally--Democrats unreservedly, without reservation, denounce Bill Clinton for that pardon.
It only took about 8 years.