Sunday, May 13, 2012

The Tucson Shooting Hero, Patricia Maisch, Speaks Her Mind


Hearing of Issa’s “plan to spend more of [his] time and our precious tax dollars on contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder,” Maisch wrote, only reminded her of painful memories from the “political games” following the Tucson shooting.

Holder was the “only one talking about the need for common sense gun laws, including a better background check system and tougher laws to fight gun trafficking,” she continued, according to the letter obtained by POLITICO.

“While we cannot turn on our televisions without hearing about ‘Fast & Furious,’ neither Congress nor the President have taken any action to fix the system,” Maisch wrote in a letter to Issa and Oversight Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). “In the year and a half since that horrible day, the failings of our legislators to take even one single step to help prevent more senseless murders, is more than a disappointment to us, it is a slap in our collective faces.”
What's your opinion? Could it be that all the attention placed on the Fast and Furious scandal is a diversion more than anything else?

That's what I thought from the very beginning.

What do you think?  Please leave a comment.

11 comments:

  1. Issa is doing his job. While the shooting in Tucson was important to those who were there, government ineptitude done for wicked purposes affects us all. In addition, Maisch apparently values her First Amendment right to petition the government, but it's sad that she exercises one right in an attempt to curtail another.

    But you are right in one thing: Dumb and Spurious was meant to distract us into thinking that we need more gun control. Fortunately, neither that nor Maisch's letter will accomplish their goals.

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  2. Issa is NOT doing his job.

    Not one of his many expensive investigations has been properly conducted nor have ANY of them produced the results he was promising of wrong-doing.

    He is a joke, a waste of skin and space and tax payer money.

    This woman is more than qualified to express the opinion she has advanced. The gun nuts? Not so much. They continue to be factually challenged, and incapable of critical thinking, and consistently not nearly as safe as they like to claim.

    Greg being one more example of the aging white flabby crabby gun nut crowd who populate the NRA as stooges for their money making efforts on behalf of the gun manufacturing industry.

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    1. Nice personal attack there, but of course that's the norm when you anti-rights folks don't have evidence to back up your claims.

      I guess it is hard to conduct an investigation when the DOJ refuses to turn over documents, lies in their letters to congress, invokes the 5th Amendment when questioned, or quits just to avoid testifying in front of congress. If there is nothing to investigate, why has the DOJ been stonewalling congress for well over a year now? It's because Holder has something to hide. This is obvious by the fact that although ATF agents admittedly broke the law, NO ONE HAS BEEN FIRED.

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  3. DG, I guess if you really were so capable of critical thinking you would address the fact that the US government is the largest arms dealer in the world and responsible for the deaths of millions and millions of innocent people. To ignore this fact and support those who continue warring against innocents puts you in the same moral standing as a Jared Loughner and the white African temporarily residing at 1600 Penn Ave.
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  4. Dog Gone, let's see you post your real picture on-line for us to evaluate. Yes, I'm white, and yes, around idiots like you, I'm crabby, and we're all aging until we die. Gun nut I take as a compliment. Flabby, though, you'll have to prove. Oh, but wait, that's right--you assert. You don't provide evidence that relevant to the question.

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    1. Dog Gone isn't exactly a looker herself. While not flabby, she's got the old part covered well.

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  5. Fast and Furious demonstrates why I don't trust my life to our government. Our government is simply a group of people with all of the same character flaws as the rest of the population.

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  6. The Fast and Furious program was a dismal failure and fuck-up. The goal was good. The way it was implemented was crap, and a person died for it. The should be held responsible.

    That being said, the gun guyz love to harp about it, and put all their attention on that ONE failure. Meanwhile, another hundred thousand people have been shot, and no one has done a damned thing to stop it. The gun lobby loves to hear that, and any time a solution is proposed, they automatically shout "Fast and Furious!", as if that one failure could possibly nullify all others. It's a cop out of the highest degree.

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    1. It's fascinating to watch the "Whatever Works to Get Gun Control" crowd moan about Dumb and Spurious, as though it counts for nothing. But Holder's one of your own, so it's good to see you acknowledge that he screwed up.

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    2. A smoke screen intended for obfuscation. Meanwhile, as Baldr said, they're dropping like flies because of gun availability, and that's on both sides of the border.

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  7. "and a person died for it"

    Oh come one now. A person died? More likely hundreds of people died because of this program. The worst part is that they had to have known that some people would die in order for their effort to be effective. That is what sickens me.

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