U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder hit back hard at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on ABC News' "This Week" Sunday morning, in response to her recent editorial calling for the impeachment of President Obama, Huffington Post reported. He also accused some of the Obama administration's conservative opponents of being motivated by "racial animus," suggesting that both he and the president are treated differently because they are black.
Speaking to host George Stephanopoulos on the political talk show, Holder dismissed Palin's credentials as a former Vice Presidential candidate for making such a statement. "She wasn't a particularly good vice presidential candidate" Holder said. "She's an even worse judge of who ought to be impeached and why."
In the editorial written and published last Tuesday on Breitbart.com, entitled "It's Time to Impeach President Obama," Palin accused Obama of intentionally weakening the border security between the United States and Mexico, declaring it grounds for impeachment proceedings to begin. "Enough is enough of the years of abuse from this president," she opened her op-ed with. "His unsecured border crisis is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, 'no mas.'"
Holder responded with disdain for Palin's criticisms, also denouncing "gridlocked Washington" and the Republican Party's continuing efforts to block any initiatives from the Obama Administration, UK MailOnline reported. "For whatever reason, [some] Republicans decided early on that this was a president they were just simply not going to cooperate with," Holder told ABC News' Pierre Thomas in a rare interview. "And over the past five-and-a-half years, we have seen demonstrations of that, where the president has reached out his hand, offered compromises that have simply not been met [in the way] they have been in the past by a Republican Party willing to do the appropriate things."
Additionally, Holder claimed to believe that some level of racism was involved with the cries of Republicans to impeach both himself, due to his failure of appointing a special prosecutor to deal with the latest IRS scandal involving former executive Lois Lerner and allegations of targeting of conservative politicians and covering it up, and Obama. "There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president," Holder said. "You know, people talking about taking their country back. ... There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus."
Although House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republican leaders have declined to support calls for Obama's impeachment, Boehner does support a lawsuit filed against the Affordable Care Act, which Holder also condemned in his interview. "It's a more, I think, a political gesture than a truly legal one," Holder said. "Filing a lawsuit against the president that has no basis is not going to improve the quality of life for the American people."
