Arrest Eric Holder

The House has voted overwhelmingly to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents on the Fast and Furious scandal, but where do we go from here?   Not surprisingly, the Justice Department won’t prosecute Him, and Obama would only take action if the attorney general became a personal liability (my personal preference is for whatever action makes him the biggest liability).   And there is a way for Congress to make him a huge liability.   The House could arrest Holder without the consent of the Justice Department.  I betcha that would encourage some corporation.

Such a move is called “inherent contempt,” a process that, writes The Washington Times, “is well-established by precedent, has been confirmed by multiple Supreme Court rulings, and is available to any Congress with the cojones to force such a confrontation.”
  
It was also recently alluded to by none other than Nancy Pelosi when she addressed what she considered Karl Rove’s contempt of Congress and said, “I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day.  I’m not kidding.  There’s a prison here in the Capitol….  If we had spotted him in the Capitol, we could have arrested him.”

Eric Holder should be arrested for one simple reason: he is currently one of the worst criminals I know of.  To use a variation on a slogan the left once so loved, Holder lied and people died.   The problem, however, is that our Congress is obviously not equipped with the afore mentioned cojones.   No one in America is supposed to be above the law, yet so-called “elites” are held to a lower standard.  If anything, they should be held to a higher one.

One reason we have as much bad behavior as we do among pseudo-elites is the same reason why child misbehavior is now rampant: there is little fear of consequences.  And this is because the consequences are inconsequential.  But high profiles should come with high risk.  If powerful public officials knew they could be marched away in handcuffs to a jail cell, perhaps they’d take their oaths of office more seriously. 

I realize there are many reasons (other than lack of the cojones) why Holder won’t be arrested.  For one thing, such a move would most certainly be demonized by the media and might backfire on Republicans in November.  Another is that few members of the ruling class want to animate a hangman that could be used (perhaps wrongly) against them in the future; once the mutual get-out-of-jail-free card is gone, it’s gone.   But I can dream, can’t I?