The Justice Department has previously been held in contempt by Congress and hit with increasingly tough court orders from a federal judge over its obstruction of efforts to secure evidence in the notorious Fast and Furious operation. Many have accused Attorney General Eric Holder of acting blatantly political in withholding documents to protect Democrats from backlash before the elections. As if to prove that view, the Justice Department waited until late on election eve to finally dump more than 64,000 pages of documents congressional lawmakers have been seeking for years. The timing was almost taunting in its impact. Guaranteeing that the content could not be viewed before people voted, the Obama Administration’s long obstruction resulted in this troubling image of a politically timed release. The Administration previously admitted that it would not discuss its plans for unilateral immigration action until after voters had gone home from the polls.
The election eve dump to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee involved 64,280 pages withheld for years by the Obama Administration.
The Justice Department has made a series of statements about the operation that proved false and Holder has been personally accused of false statements.
The document dump contains heavily redacted copies which will likely continue the fight over the right of the oversight committee to review the evidence in the operation.
Source: CNN
The REALITY is that for the blue collar worker there is power in numbers. Unionized workers have better working conditions, more protections and better wages, hence all the anger toward unionized workers in Wisconsin. Jealousy of one blue collar person of another, because unionized employees are intelligent enough to work in unionized jobs. I’m sure the plutocrats were laughing their a$$es off to see the unwashed masses fighting with one another over a ‘pittance’.
Not wasting my time presenting facts to so called Texans that know very little about the state.
http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/02-09-14-why-are-young-workers-disappearing-from-the-state-government-workforce-in-texas/ “In 2013, about one-fourth of full-time employees at state agencies earned less than $30,000 a year; the exit rate for those workers surpassed the rate for workers above that salary level. The average pay for a full-time state employee last year was $40,398.” In reality, Annie, these people know nothing about Texas or Austin…frauds.
My suggestion to quit complaining about job security and working conditions and INSTEAD unionize, is not flippant in the least.>
Ok. You don’t mean it as flippant then I can only deduce it is ignorance of economic systems and reality.
Government workers in Texas are not paid well nor are their benefits that great. A starting attorney makes 43,000 to 44,000 a year. The pay is so low that there is a lot of turnover. My daughter got one her degrees there so I know what I am talking about. You think Rick Perry wants to reward government workers. The past few years have been tough on Texas teachers and other government workers. Look at the pay scales.
My suggestion to quit complaining about job security and working conditions and INSTEAD unionize, is not flippant in the least. If one complains about working conditions, yet rejects or disparages unionization, it reflects that they are simply followers of an ideology that isn’t helping them and actually harmful to them as a blue collar working class people.
Paul,
I never realized that Harry also tried to rewrite history. Didn’t he also say the Buck Stops Here? You may want to take Harry’s advice.
@ Annie
A lot of government employees /= ALL Austin residents
on 1, November 5, 2014 at 11:29 pmSqueeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
“Hmmm. I wonder why Austin is sooo different from the rest of Texas??? Oh, I know! It isn’t because the people there are just smarter than the rest of Texas. It’s really the same reason that people in New York are sooo Big Bank friendly. It’s where they get their money. The capital of Texas is Austin, sooo that is where you have a lot of government employees and university employees, etc. Sooo, sure they believe in government there! That’s who pays for their life style.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter”
@DBQ
Thank you for taking the time to explain that to Annie!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Gah. My first sentence is all messed up. Proofread!!! darn it.
There are more government workers per capita in Austin, which would be natural since this is the State Capitol. Government workers are paid well. Therefore the demographic numbers and average pay scale of Austin would be better than some other areas of the State. This is true of all places that are the seat of government. Squeeky did not claim that ALL people in Austin are rich.
@ Annie
Squeeky it’s ok to back off your original assertion that Austin residents were all rich. No one will think less of you.
I see no instance where Squeeky claimed that ALL Austin residents are rich. She was merely remarking that the people who work for government, and since Austin is the State Capitol there would be many more government workers per capita than the rest of the state. Your exaggerations and miscaricaturization of other people’s comments is constant and is either on purpose or the result of a severe lack of reading comprehension skills. People do think less of you when this is a constant pattern of behaviour.
Government workers are paid well and have gold plated benefit packages. Their pay is derived from the tax revenues of the rest of the citizens, many of whom are not working in occupations that pay as well and many of those occupations are not conducive to being unionized….ever. So a flippant response of just get unionized is not only condescending it is extremely ignorant of the economic realities of the rest of the world.
When you have a center of population that consists of highly paid, government employees and who are able to live a lifestyle above that of the proles or ordinary worker you end up with a dichotomized population of the “haves” and the “have nots”. Resentment is a natural outcome of this.
Hunger games in a small way.
I’m pretty sure Rafflaw can stand the heat, he just doesn’t engage in the stirring of the pot.
That’s true Elaine.
Rafflaw,
He’s certainly not the only one attempting to rewrite the history of what has gone on at RIL. BTW, it’s not all female commenters who have dealt with consistent attacks. Those who don’t express the same views as the right-wing echo chamber here are the targets of attacks and disparagement.
Squeeky it’s ok to back off your original assertion that Austin residents were all rich. No one will think less of you.
Paul,
I am afraid that you are attempting to rewrite the history of what has gone on here at RIL. SWM and Annie are responding to the consistent attacks that they and other female commenters have had to experience here. I for one am fed up with it. I can only imagine what they think. I commend them for being as thick skinned as they have been.
rafflaw – to quote Truman “If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.”
@Annie
Oh! Then thank you for teaching me something new! I was mistakenly operating under the assumption that every single person in Austin, Texas, including but not limited to winos, illegal aliens, waitresses at Waffle House, the homeless, and fast food workers, were all working for the government and making great salaries, with good benefits and little chance of firing or outsourcing!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky, you have said a few times now that Austin is full of fat cat government workers.
Annie – let me see if I have this right. You and SWM can go after Squeeky with imlpunity, but if a MALE asks you to stop then there is something wrong with them? Seems a little sexist to me. Or maybe it is just part of the liberal War on Women.
Excuse me Paul? No one ‘went after’ Squeeky personally. Did either SWM or I make cryptic comments about revealing ‘personal things’ about her? Squeeky does her fair share of lampooning other commenters here. It is YOUR behavior that is creepy.
Annie
I have no idea what point you are trying to make with stories of your not-rich friends in Austin???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter