The Punch Line in the Fast and Furious Scandal is That Gun Walking Started Under the Bush Administration!

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All of the Republicans' hypocrisy over "Fast and Furious" is exposed by logic if you remember that the program started during the Bush years.

So, when right wingers and guns shop owners wail that it was started to "take away guns" ask them why do they think the Bush people wanted to take away their guns? And who do they think in the Bush administration was plotting to take away their guns? Was it Bush himself? Or was Cheney and Rove anxious that people could arm themselves in case of a widespread draft of young Americans?
--- Hint: I'm being real tongue in cheek here.  Of course, I don't think that Bush, Cheney, or Rove wanted to take away guns, but the same allegations made about the Obama administration or Democrats in Congress (many of whom are gun owners themselves) is ridiculous.

In fact, the reality that the Bush people started the Gun Walking programs, has embarrassed Darrell Issa to the point that now he is backing down and saying that he just wants Eric Holder to testify or produce some papers or resign or whatever.

Others are making up all kinds of conspiracy theories behind the scene, though, and I think it's enough that Issa (with his past) has created this wild "Watergate II" scandal so roads and bridges don't have to be repaired (ensuring safety of our travelways, and creating jobs), and the Congress doesn't have to act to stop student debt interest doubling in July.

Nancy Pelosi makes a valid point, too. Distracting the Attorney General from ensuring the accuracy of the count in November, and mking certain all valid voters get to vote when Republican state governments are trying to block minorities and poor people from the ballot box this year appears to one of the goals of the Congressman from California.

More on Issa's past:

Issa may be the most corrupt politician since Duke Cunningham

Note on and link to Ryan Lizza's report on Darrel Issa.  Lizza has even more on the Congressman than I've heard before.

5 Things to Know About the Investigation of Fast and Furious

The graphic above is a screen grab that came from Alan Colmes "Liberaland" blog which was a summary of a Think Progress Report Five Things To Know About The Republican Witchhunt Against Attorney General Holder  which is a very important article to read.

Issa himself is no stranger to using trumped up charges for overturning government.  He was the one that started recall petitions against democratic Governor Davis in California in 2003, only to be pushed aside by his party-mates as a "can't win" so they could focus on action star Arnold Schwarzenegger who further crippled the state (after the power companies scam during the rolling blackout period) and worked to break the strong liberal majority within it.

The petition drive for the recall was itself the target of and investigation for illegal petition gatherers and signers from other states (California law states that only California residents (as shown by having permanent living arrangements like a renter's agreement for an in-state dwelling, can pass petitions, and only registered voters, again required to be residents, but also to have  legally completed a registration for voting in the state at least 5 weeks prior to using any voter privileges).

Of course, no matter what top Republicans say now they are grateful for this conspiracy theory against Obama's Justice Department and a black man,  So Issa, using a program started under Bush and his Justice Department to try to pretend it's all a plot from the Obama administration is just like toppings for the hot fudge Sundae of a program to get back into power and pass tax cuts for fat cats and stage more wars for their military industrial complex buddies.

Video: Fox Balanced? Jon Stewart Begs to Differ, And Fox Commenters Confirm that Fast and Furious Outrage is Really About Keeping Stronger Gun Laws Off the Books

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Since Fox is the voice pushing the most for the right, I find it it very significant that they are wailing about the Fast and Furious program as some kind of gimmick to "take people guns away". (In other words get some sanity in US gun laws or crack down on illegal gun sales at shows.)

My Blog partner, CA Lady, told Anderson Cooper that she would no longer watch his show while it was acting like a anti gun law outlet by stressing on the one man killed with a gun that was released in the program while ignoring the thousands killed each year by the out of control sale of guns, many of them done illegally, and/or without background checks. Cooper mentioned the name of Representative Darrell Issa more than once and she guessed that Issa's staff may have pushed to have CNN push the outrage, because they have been proven to push many politically motivated memes to the press before.

Between us we do believe the Republicans want to make a huge deal of the "Fast and Furious" problems to stave off increased regulations on guns and their sales, or even to weaken gun laws more. And in the video you can see the FOX mouthpieces for the GOP raising the idea that the Obama administration created a deliberate problem as a pretext for "tougher guns in the US" which Jon defines as "taking away guns".