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“Shut the Fuck Up” on
Guns<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/rahm-to-holder-shut-the-fuck-up-on-guns/>by
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I'm going to count to 4 and a half and you better STFU!
Chicago politics at its most dysfunctional.
>From ABC News, via
Yahoo<http://news.yahoo.com/rahm-holder-2009-stfu-guns-200831772--abc-news-politics.html?_esi=1>
:
It turns out that Defense Secretary Robert Gates wasn't the only member of
the Obama Cabinet with a STFU
policy<http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/secretary-gatess-stfu-policy/>
.
Then White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had one too, on guns,
according to Daniel Klaidman's Kill or Capture:
"Now Emanuel had his sights set on Holder. The attorney general had gotten
off to a rocky start with the White House with his 'nation of cowards'
speech. One week later, Holder stepped into it again. On February 25,
(2009) Jim Messina, Emanuel's deputy, walked into his boss's office to
inform him of Holder's latest 'gaffe.'At a press conference earlier that
day, Holder had told reporters that the administration would push to
reinstate the assault-weapons ban, which had expired in 2004. The comments
roused the powerful gun lobby and its water carriers on Capitol Hill.
'Senators to Attorney General: Stay Away from Our Guns' read a press
release issued by Senator Max Baucus of Montana-a Democrat, no less.
"Emanuel was furious. He slammed his desk and cursed the attorney general.
Holder was only repeating a position Obama had expressed during the
campaign, but that was before the White House needed the backing of pro-gun
Democrats from red states for their domestic agenda. The chief of staff
sent word to Justice that Holder needed to 'shut the fuck up' on guns…"
Continue
reading>>><http://news.yahoo.com/rahm-holder-2009-stfu-guns-200831772--abc-news-politics.html?_esi=1>
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