Democratic strategist and Obama surrogate Hilary Rosen once again showed she is out of touch with reality this morning on ABC’s This Week.
In April Rosen became infamous for her claim that Ann Romney, the wife of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, had “never worked a day in her life.” Rosen eventually had to apologize to Romney for the offensive claim.
Today Rosen insisted that Republicans’ request for documents related to the Fast and Furious investigation were merely an attempt to ‘distract’ U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder from blocking Voter ID laws.
In response to a comment from columnist George Will that Holder “has made himself obnoxious to Republicans” by claiming that Voter ID laws “constitute voter suppression,” Rosen agreed that Republicans don’t like Eric Holder ” because he has challenged Voter ID laws. Because he has challenged the Arizona, you know, discriminatory immigration law. Because he has refused to implement the discriminatory anti-marriage law.”
“You know, Eric Holder has shown a lot of backbone in the Justice Department and the Republicans hate it,” she claimed. “So, what do they do? They call for his resignation. They throw out the document request. They throw more and more at him to distract him from doing the things that actually the president and the people hired him to do.”
The ‘people’ didn’t exactly ‘hire’ Eric Holder to be AG, but that’s besides the point compared with Rosen’s other inane comments.
It’s utterly reprehensible that Rosen would claim House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Darrel Issa and other Republicans’ quest to find the truth about the misconduct that took Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s life is all simply a distraction to stop Holder from intervening in election law.
Rosen’s comments echo former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s repulsive claims last week that House Republicans on the Oversight Committee’s vote to hold the AG in contempt “are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote.”
While it is true, as Will pointed out, that Holder is not Republicans’ favorite Obama administration official for a number of reasons, including the Justice Department’s unnecessary involvement in states’ constitutional right to create and enforce laws requiring voters to present a legal form of identification at the polls, claims that the GOP’s overall dislike of Holder is the cause of ongoing Fast and Furious investigation are both vulgar offensive and shameful.
Democrats ought not to let their own obsession with stopping the GOP’s efforts to eliminate voter fraud get in the way of rational decision-making.
