NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer is shocked — shocked! — that anyone would impute a political motive on the part of Republicans who want to get rid of Attorney General Eric Holder.
Responding in a May 19 post to claims that “Republicans are eager to claim a trophy firing” in targeting Holder, Blumer insisted that the GOP is operating only on the purest of motives:
There are plenty of Republicans, conservatives, and a few on the left who would like to see Holder step down as Attorney General, not because they want a “trophy,” but because no man in modern U.S. history and possibly all of U.S. history has so thoroughly politicized his office to the point of becoming his administration’s policy enforcement arm, perverting the rule of law almost beyond recognition in the process. People who genuinely care about this country’s deterioration as a civil society want Holder gone because his departure may stop or slow down the bleeding and may force out some or most of the truth he and his department have been hiding.
Blumer went on to whine that no evidence was offered that Republicans’ anti-Holder operation is partisan — but Blumer offered no evidence that Republicans’ motives are as pure as the driven snow.
Since this is NewsBusters, you can be sure that someone was doing the very same thing Blumer was criticizing. That someone is Noel Sheppard, who just a few hours before Blumer’s post went up was dismissing the idea that IRS scrutiny of tea party groups could be anything other than political:
“Can you see in your mind’s eye a way that this might not have been political, that this was a misguided stupid way to sort, but that they didn’t intend it to be some kind of political attempt to harass the Tea Party?”
So actually asked CNN’s Candy Crowley of her guest Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) concerning the Internal Revenue Service scandal Sunday[.] […]
So Crowley actually thinks it’s possible that this wasn’t political?!?
Apparently, according to NewsBusters, Democrats operate only for political reasons, and Republicans care only about the country.