Republicans' Empty Threats Enough Excuse for Obama to Get Holder to Support Bush Crimes?

The rethugs have RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION® down to a science. And then they'll just go ahead and fuck things up anyway. They're rabid in their greed and I'm getting sick of the spineless and corrupt dEMOCRATS (really small "D") going along with their corporatist game plan. Dawn Johnsen is the only pick he's made that I care two shits about. I'm going to be close to being DONE with Barack if he crumbles under on this... Then he will simply being thrown in with the rest of the criminals due to be investigated. Done and done.

We the voters got to get rid these stinkers. INCUMBENTS OUT!!! We need a new president because Obama does not have balls, and our Senate is useless.

EW

"EVERY gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

From Scott Horton's article:

Senate Republicans are now privately threatening to derail the confirmation of key Obama administration nominees for top legal positions by linking the votes to suppressing critical torture memos from the Bush era. A reliable Justice Department source advises me that Senate Republicans are planning to “go nuclear” over the nominations of Dawn Johnsen as chief of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel if the torture documents are made public. The source says these threats are the principal reason for the Obama administration’s abrupt pullback last week from a commitment to release some of the documents. A Republican Senate source confirms the strategy. It now appears that Republicans are seeking an Obama commitment to safeguard the Bush administration’s darkest secrets in exchange for letting these nominations go forward.

Bolding mine.