Barack Obama, after making the very difficult decision to proceed with Penguin Random House to publish his and Michelle’s White House memoirs in a deal rumored to net him about $60 million, is, at least according to old pal Eric Holder, ready to take his place at the helm of the democrats’ Trump opposition efforts. Of course, this breaks with the tradition upheld by most former Presidents who have chosen to not publicly criticize their successors…but the rules don’t really apply to Obama now do they?
According to Holder, Obama’s triumphant return to politics will be focused on, among other things, fundraising (his specialty) and assisting the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) in its efforts to redraw congressional districts to give Democrats a leg up in the House of Representatives. Per Politico:
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Barack Obama is getting closer to making his public reappearance in politics, his friend and former Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.
Holder said he’s been talking to the former president about ways — including fundraising and interacting with state legislators — that could help the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which Obama asked Holder to chair last year.
“It’s coming. He’s coming,” Holder said, speaking to reporters at a briefing for the new group. “And he’s ready to roll.”
Throughout, Holder said, Obama “will be a more visible part of the effort.”
As Holder notes, he and the former President will join forces in an epic “battle for our democracy” that will revolve around redrawing maps to benefit his chosen party.
The NDRC is looking to be an intensified central force for Democrats to tackle their disadvantage in gerrymandering. The mission is to direct resources into winning targeted state elections, push ballot initiatives for nonpartisan district-drawing commissions and wage legal challenges to existing maps. The hope is that this would put Democrats in a stronger position in state houses, but also in the U.S. House of Representatives, if districts are drawn that more accurately represent the distribution of the popular vote, citing statistics that showed Republicans winning 49 percent of the vote in those elections but getting 55 percent of the seats in the 2016 elections.
“This is really a battle for our democracy,” Holder said. “The notion that people are denied their ability to cast a meaningful vote … is inconsistent with who we say we are, inconsistent with what we say our democracy is about.”
Of course, we’re sure that Holder’s intentions are every bit as pure as he says they are and he is in no way motivated to go out and file a bunch of gerrymandering lawsuits just because it will net his law firm, Covington & Burlin, as well as himself, million of dollars in fees.
As we noted before, Holder was also “honored” recently to win a mandate from California, even though no one has any idea what he’s been retained to do, which will also undoubtedly result in $10s of million of dollars in bribes fees for his new law firm.
“I am honored that the Legislature chose Covington to serve as its legal adviser as it considers how to respond to potential changes in federal law that could impact California’s residents and policy priorities,” Mr. Holder said in a statement. “I am confident that our expertise across a wide array of federal legal and regulatory issues will be a great resource to the Legislature.”
The Legislature has an ample stable of lawyers on staff, but officials said Mr. Holder and his firm brought specific litigation and political skills that could be needed in the coming years. Mr. de León said the final compensation for the firm had not been set, but would be publicly disclosed once it was.
As a reminder, Holder made history back in 2012 when he became the first Attorney General ever to be held in contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal which involved selling guns to Mexican drug cartels. The scandal erupted on the national stage when one of those guns was confirmed to have been used to kill a U.S. border control agent, Brian Terry.
Good to see Obama’s former staff embracing “The Swamp” that Trump has vowed to drain.
Treason. But no surprise and no one will pursue. Obama.is a commie.
Well,really need a relook at among other things F&F,holder could take a nice hit on that,the holder piece of shit was involved post murder in the Waco assault,holder needs to face justice.
And eric,make no mistake,millions of Americans are also “ready to roll”.
Millions may be willing to talk about being “ready to roll” but I think that’s all they are ready to do.
You see the left “rolling” all the time, but where are those that say they are ready to do the same?
For the most part only a handful, at most, will even show up with signs to counter the leftists violent demonstrations.
Or form or donate money to legal organizations trying to oppose them in court.
Anony,as times become more challenging a lot of folks will be realizing the man or woman with nothing to lose has everything to gain,you do see it growing.
Yes,would I and any sane person prefer a peaceful means to right a lot of wrongs,of course,but,must be willing to sacrifice a lot more perhaps.Plenty of folks in military alone fighting/dying in foreign lands and they volunteered,many more will for their country/freedoms.
It seems the lefts movement has been on going the last 8 years and especially in the last few months, as they roll in the darkness of hidden agendas. The right are ready to roll, but are waiting for the “right moment”, that being the prophesied violence when lawlessness takes hold of the land. When local violence across the nation threatens their homes, the rolling will begin. But until then, they will remain law abiding waiting for the SHF citizens.
Until then it’s a matter of watching for the outcome of the great war taking place between the deep state and the new sheriff in town who is attempting to drain the swamp. All the players are in place, so apart from supporting the president, it does not seem there is much to do.
So who’s rolling here: http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/01/rubio-booted-from-tampa-office-because-left-wing-protesters-were-scaring-other-tenants/?
Yeah, you go ahead, anonyhole. I’ll catch up later.
He’s just going to confirm how much of a dumb negro his is.
Unfortunately, confirming he’s just a dumb negro to our side confirms he is almost a god to theirs.
The rift of worldview between the two sides he divided us into is greater than most people think.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-28/obamas-make-over-60-million-book-deal
Barnett is the CFR apparatchik who brokers all the major pay for play politicians. It’s influence laundering at its finest. Obama is coming alright.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Especially with ex-presidents. The more Obama is seen, the more he drives his popularity down – all while sucking the oxygen out of the room for any future democrat presidential aspirant. Who are they going to run in 2020 – Warren? Franken? That old ex-governor from Kentucky? Hickenlooper?
I predict they’ll run Kamala Harris, freshman senator from California. She’s being fast tracked. In 15 years she’s gone from SF DA to State Attorney General to taking barbara boxer’s seat in the us senate. She’s a communist’s wet dream Check it out.
There’s a lot of buzz that Oprah will run.
Wouldn’t have to worry about Obama or the other mud Mixed half blacks .But behind them stand the really smart Jews with the big money..Who else would pay the Obama’s 60 million for a book deal.No one gets That much money for a book.That 60 million is for political reasons.So they can now hire the best Jewish minds to develop the next strategies For 2018 and beyond.
The book(s) will be the moral equivalent of mein kampf……. Title will be, “My struggle as a classless clown in politics”.
Obama’s fall into irrelevancy and obscurity is denied by Politico, and the Tylers, of course, helps them push that denial by feeding it to unsuspecting readers as clickbait on their site. I don’t get why people who aren’t TV news addled msm political junkies even read the articles there any more.
I think it was Kennedy (ironically a democrat) that said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
By “redistricting” aka – voter fraud, these asshats are going to build a pressure cooker that cannot be relieved through a peaceful vote. I waited for the election to decide whether it was time to leave, or to stay as things may have a shot at turning around. The election said to all of us deplorables that there still are sane, rational people out there. Now, the libs don’t like the sane, rational people having a voice, so they want to rig the elections? Sessions needs to investigate these people. They are FAR more dangerous to our democratic republic than any “threat” from Putin.
Anon,though not agr with many of their ideas a dem in JFK’s day was usually very different that what passes for a dem now,JFK did,at least thought about doing some things I would have agreed with,like realizing perhaps Vietnam a bad move/fed reserve/allowed the SF’s to keep their beret as a sign of their training/service.
He was not murdered not sure what he would have done and whether would agree or not but the powers that want to be ruined that moment.
Democrats have indeed moved far to the left in a short time. Example, FDRs insistence that people work for government assistance, as in CCC, would be considered raging right wing now. Another example, the libs have moved so far left they’re about to fall off the stage, clinging to some phony trumped up social justice issues.
Obama’s affirmative action Presidency can be summed up on the simplest terms as inept with strong racist undertones, this leading to a deterioration of this country.
Chances are Obama won’t be any more effective as a political hack than he was as Pres.
If he wasn’t effective as a President, why do we have to work so hard trying to undo what he did?
He said he was going to fundamentally change us and he did. Now we have to work at trying to undo that change if we can, and we might not be able to.
You’re making the mistake of believing that the damage wrought by Obama was the result of ineptitude and not a systematic purposeful undermining and destruction of everything that was ever positive about the United States.
They should wear white suits like the Communist in Congress.
Oreo coming back…..right.
Can you believe the hard time the commies are having getting this “race war” off the ground? Yawn.
“He’s Coming and He’s Ready to Roll”….Bwahhhahahaha
The only thing he is capable of rolling is a joint.
Maybe he’s behind the current anti Sessions movement that is now calling to prosecute and imprison him for working with Russia.
Things aren’t always as obvious as direct statements and openly visible manipulations and plots.
Anon- This some seriously shitty script writing. TPTB have been egging on a race war for 8 years now. Never send a limp-wrist to do a Lenin or Trotsky assignment….what are they thinking?
What is this comedy hour? Seriously funny stuff……
Lets hope someone stuffs him in a toilet and pulls the lever when he comes back.
Is there a bigger douchebag on planet earth than Barack Hussein Obama? A bigger pair of douchebags than Holder and Obama? Me thinks not.
This is a struggle for the soul of the country. They, the commies, are winning. Because the Republicans are complicit in all matters no intention of repealing Obamacare. Only window dressing for resistance to keep the uninformed quite.
Book deals like this are payoffs. No publisher can expect to recoup the ridiculous sums advanced for these ghost written volumes, and they all end up on the remainder table soon after being published. The money paid out to these hacks comes from somewhere besides a broke publishing house.
Exactly right, see my note above. This one guy has brokered impossibly large deals for Sarah Palin, the Cheneys, the Bush family, the Clintons, Greenspan, Bernanke, Obamas, etc etc. The publisher could never in 100 years make money on these deals. It’s so obviously a payoff for the public figure doing as they are told and yet nobody in the media has made a peep about it.