Chicanery: the art of willful political trickery and deception as practiced by schrewd politicos made popular in Chicago, where it was fine tuned and perfected. Hence the root of the word from Chic-ago.
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are both carding carrying chicanerist of the highest order. Leaky Loose Lips Obama is the perfect antithesis to Lefty Tight Lips Holder whose ability to keep a secret from congress is fast and furiously becoming legendary in the corridors of Washington, DC. Holder is not going to spill the beans to a bunch of pipsqueaks at a congressional hearing which anyone but the right wing syncophants over at Fox News can see is politically motivated. Just election year jockeying by the parties. Wink wink!
Darryl Issa: "Mr. Holder if you do not meet our demands we will hold you in contempt of congress which means you cannot eat at our cafeteria, or get a $2 haircut at our barber shop, or use our super plush mens room. And it will be a blight and go on your "Permenant Record"!
Mr. Holder: "I am ok with that."
Congress needs to grow a set and have contempt have some real penalties. Right now it carries no weight. An empty threat. The best I can come up with is to end funding for the department until the congressional request is complied with or the AG resigns and is replaced with another one who will comply. Does congress control funding?
They do, but they will not until we the people send more trouble makers there to clean out the rats nest it has become.
I have a headache and need to lie down. I will leave you with only this short brilliant composition.
Look at the high drama of these congressional hearings with a jaundiced eye, I do.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President, Urban Poverty Law Center
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