Will Obama Appoint Radical Activist To Enforce Nation's Laws?
Posted 10/24/2014 06:17 PM ET
Leadership: Just when
you thought the president couldn't pick anyone more radical than Eric
Holder as attorney general, he's poised to name ultraradical race-baiter
Thomas Perez.
Holder's activism is no secret. But Perez is even more extreme. Worse, he's a liar and possible perjurer. Yet he's reportedly President Obama's pick to replace Holder as America's top cop enforcing the nation's laws.
The Beltway media are reporting that Perez, now serving as labor secretary, is the front-runner for the key post — and he didn't deny it when reporters asked him about it at a recent speech.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other Latino groups have pressured President Obama to appoint the second Latino attorney general.
That's because Perez is an activist of the most radical stripe, dating back to his days as a leftist political agitator in Maryland, and certainly not someone cut out to be an impartial arbiter of the laws of the land.
The former Civil Rights Division chief is an agenda driver for the "social justice" wing of the Democrat Party. He won't helm the Justice Department to enforce laws equally — or enforce them at all in the case of illegal immigration.
As he revealed in a speech last week, he's all about getting more immigrants in to vote for Democrats and redistributing wealth. Perez told the National Press Club the country needs to "fix our broken immigration system" by expanding legal status for immigrants through "aggressive executive action," which he said will bring about more "shared prosperity."
Obama knows better than to announce such a radical appointment before next month's key midterm election. It would only aid Republicans, who threaten to take Senate control. Rather, he'll wait until after the election. If the GOP wins big, he's expected to ram through his nod in the lame-duck session.
But Republicans must fight to block this nomination. Perez should never be attorney general. He wasn't even qualified to be Maryland's. He was kicked off the ballot there in a 2006 bid for state attorney general because the local political activist hadn't practiced law long enough to meet the constitutional requirement.
Perez is also a dangerous a race-baiter — and a shameless liar to boot. He recently told an all-black crowd at Howard University that he learned while visiting a Mississippi school district that officials were locking up black kids for passing gas. He used the anecdote as an example of lingering white racism in the Deep South.
Holder's activism is no secret. But Perez is even more extreme. Worse, he's a liar and possible perjurer. Yet he's reportedly President Obama's pick to replace Holder as America's top cop enforcing the nation's laws.
The Beltway media are reporting that Perez, now serving as labor secretary, is the front-runner for the key post — and he didn't deny it when reporters asked him about it at a recent speech.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other Latino groups have pressured President Obama to appoint the second Latino attorney general.
That's because Perez is an activist of the most radical stripe, dating back to his days as a leftist political agitator in Maryland, and certainly not someone cut out to be an impartial arbiter of the laws of the land.
The former Civil Rights Division chief is an agenda driver for the "social justice" wing of the Democrat Party. He won't helm the Justice Department to enforce laws equally — or enforce them at all in the case of illegal immigration.
As he revealed in a speech last week, he's all about getting more immigrants in to vote for Democrats and redistributing wealth. Perez told the National Press Club the country needs to "fix our broken immigration system" by expanding legal status for immigrants through "aggressive executive action," which he said will bring about more "shared prosperity."
Obama knows better than to announce such a radical appointment before next month's key midterm election. It would only aid Republicans, who threaten to take Senate control. Rather, he'll wait until after the election. If the GOP wins big, he's expected to ram through his nod in the lame-duck session.
But Republicans must fight to block this nomination. Perez should never be attorney general. He wasn't even qualified to be Maryland's. He was kicked off the ballot there in a 2006 bid for state attorney general because the local political activist hadn't practiced law long enough to meet the constitutional requirement.
Perez is also a dangerous a race-baiter — and a shameless liar to boot. He recently told an all-black crowd at Howard University that he learned while visiting a Mississippi school district that officials were locking up black kids for passing gas. He used the anecdote as an example of lingering white racism in the Deep South.
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