I think Comey would be a brilliant choice. Are you a Harry Potter fan, or is butterbeer an actual beverage?

There was some suggestion that he was doing “stuff” for Isreal during this period, possibly doing spying for Isreal.

For what it’s worth, I don’t know doodley squat about Holder and hold no opinion one way or the other. I defer to others much more knowledgeable than me on this appointment.

Separately, Holder is what Obama would be, had he gone big firm instead of choosing to enter politics from the bottom up. Holder started as the quintessential outsider, and is now one of the top insiders at a Washington, DC, mega-firm. He “wins” quietly, without public fuss or notice, and wins big. He’s much more like Obama that not.

If progressives want their voices heard, want them reflected in policy, then one way is to support groups like Blue America. That gets their voices inside the Beltway and off the internet. It buttresses sitting progressives, who the Dems are as ready as the GOP to marginalize.

The more progressives there are in Congress, the more that quiet centrists like Obama will have to listen to them. If progressives don’t accumulate enough “voter weight”, they won’t be able to move the political see-saw — already overloaded on the right, with a few teetering in the middle — and centrist Obama won’t have a reason to leave his Jim Lehrer-like comfy corner.

because he was being criticized by the White House for sending over too many clemency applications with recommendations that they be denied.

So his favored clients who are not good candidates for pardons get the Nod but anyone else did not. Was Holder denying pardons to keep his average up?
Was there is there a certain finite amount of pardons?
Were deserving people denied pardons so questionable but connected people could get pardons?
Did these people later give to Hilary and later Obama?
This looks like a can of worms.