Why Republicans Refuse To Fire Attorney General Eric Holder?

Free Eric Holder!  Approve Loretta Lynch.

Republicans refuse to fire Attorney General Eric Holder because they hate Barack Obama.

This should be the shortest article I've ever written, but its not that simple this time either.  Barack Obama is not just a graduate of Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law, he remains a student in everything he does.  In other words, Obama does his homework and takes his tests based upon a fair amount of research and study.  He might not be the class valedictorian, but he's not a C student either.

With everything that Obama has chosen to do as President of the United States, he has never discounted the factor of his own skin despite the insistence that no one else notices it.  Living as a president might have been a transition for Obama, but being black was not.  His life experience dictated to him and all others of similar experience, that the rules would be different for someone presumably inferior.

The same occurs with women of power who are expected to be twice as effective to stave off the onslaught of the majority.  With Bowe Bergdahl, Obama had to research the impact of leaving a soldier that intelligence said he could free- or freeing a soldier with a questionable story behind his capture. Either option would bear criticism, but the research said "No Man Left Behind" would be more negatively resounding than "He Brought Home A Deserter".  His research was basically correct in that Bergdahl fell into obscurity until he was found guilty of desertion, and will probably be forgotten again now that he is serving his punishment.  Critics might attempt to track the murderous efforts of the military leaders that were exchanged for Bergdahl, but absent such credible intelligence, this story is a wrap.

Benjamin Netanyahu and his republican cohorts in congress might be trying to block the negotiations with Iran, but they will never be able to block the historical potential that such an agreement represents.  While opponents of the deal could be totally correct about Iran's lack of trustworthiness, they still dismiss the fact that Iran is at the table to sign some kind of deal.  If Iranian leaders actually sign their names to the kind of deal that Bibi would like, then Bibi and the world would have contributed to a lasting peace effort that should be the goal of all nations.  If those who should be invested in lasting peace begin to scream "liar" during the negotiation process, what will they say when the war breaks out?

As in a good game of poker, you never want to  reveal your suspicions, especially if you genuinely have them.  Undoubtedly, Iran must be suspicious of the lasting sustainability of any deal that they would sign given the volatility of the US congress and their ability to apply pressure with a bill or sheer will.  The mere fact that this coalition of negotiators has not dissolved under the pressure of  congressional Obama hatred is a testimony to the homework of Obama and his administration.  Only well tested relationships could withstand these outside attacks and Obama is passing the first part of this test simply by keeping this coalition intact.

No way Obama saw this coming.  No way anyone saw it.

Love him or hate him, he does his homework.
 He did enough homework for several members of this existing congress to approve the existing AG Eric Holder, whom they now seem to despise.  Despite rabid protest against Holder during the past year or two, republicans refuse to fire this guy tomorrow and replace him with the nominee who has been waiting 140 days (and counting) to receive a vote.  The problem this time is that first thing again.  The first Black president is trying to replace the first Black American AG with the first female Black American AG, and he did his homework to uncover the best first black female he could find.

Is Lynch too good for her own good?

Loretta Lynch has a reputation that is unassailable.  If it was otherwise, she would have been thoroughly assailed already.  Instead, she is on the edge of making history being blocked with an historical measure never seen before.  Republicans have decided that Lynch can be approved- but only if democrats concede on a child sex trafficking bill with restrictive abortion (Hyde amendment) language attached as well.  Once again, never before has a cabinet nominee been conditionally approved in lieu of unrelated legislation- although republicans have tried to slide abortion language through the back door for decades.

 Reagan AG nominee, Edwin Meese III, had to wait over a year for a confirmation vote, but only because he required clearing from a Justice Department investigation, not because he couldn't get a vote. Why this particular public policy issue is being pushed through the back door is confusing since other major issues like ObamaCare or Immigration reform seem like bigger matters  for republicans to pursue a win.

In fact, congressional republicans seem ill-concerned with winning at all.  They simply need homework boy to stop winning so much.  How dare he attempt to ride into the sunset by fixing Immigration a little while also negotiating a global nuke deal and then inserting the first black female AG.  By law, republicans can't stop any executive actions on immigration unless they pass a bill through congress(lol).  They can't even legally interrupt the nuclear negotiations with Iran because Obama is not negotiating a treaty, just an adjustment to the sanctions that have forced Iran to the table.

But this!  This area is TOTALLY in the hands of congress who has the singular duty of approving or disapproving every presidential cabinet nominee.  They could, and should, vote up or down on Lynch, but doing so might impede this great opportunity to finally force homework boy to fail a test.  No way did he expect an historical first to block his historical first.  Nothing in the research books would have revealed such a thing, so no one could have accurately predicted what is happening to Lynch as we speak.

Well actually, Eric Holder might have predicted this.  Probably a day or so after he announced his departure he woke up in the middle of the night while dreaming of the vacations he richly deserves and thought, "what if they don't let me go".  Holder's own confirmation took 64 days so he knew that it could take some time, but being blocked from his vacation planning by an abortion amendment was the last thing Holder or anyone expected.

Maneuvering political influence to get something when you are giving up something is normal politics.  Jamming up nominees and forcing the nation to operate without a wheel has taken obstructionism to a new low.