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Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos — Your one stop pundit shop. Richard Cohen lays out a rather compelling case against the nomination of Eric Holder for Attorney General. Robert Kagan wants a new coalition of the willing to take over parts of Pakistan. And if that goes as well as the invasion of Iraq that Kagan cheerleaded for, we will soon be mired in three wars. Bob Herbert, while admiring the people Barack Obama is surrounding himself with, is uneasy, and wants to know: ... who in the Obama administration will be listening to the young ...

Eric Holder Blowback — Do the NYTimes and WaPo read FDL?
Firedoglake — ... link will take you to a post with links to a whole bunch of posts] Not just for the Marc Rich pardon, but also for his handling of the Chiquita payments to terrorists case. There is a disturbing pattern in his behavior of going around the normal rules to get special treatment for the rich and already over privileged. Some of our commenters pointed out that we were out here all alone, simply howling into the wind. Well, I'm feeling a little less lonely today. Richard Wolf has a piece in today's WaPo. The money quote? ...

Richard Cohen Dissents
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Although it is no surprise conservatives are unhappy with Eric Holder’s nomination for attorney general, one interesting dissent comes today from within the ranks. It seems that Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is still up in arms about the pardon of Marc Rich: ...

What Was the Hold Up?
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Holder facilitated a pardon for a Democratic fundraiser/fugitive from justice. Holder's decision to support that pardon marked a serious failure of judgment, and it has raised questions about his fitness for the job even among Democratic partisans. But not once did the New York Times take up the issue during the campaign, even though it was widely assumed that Holder was on track for the job of AG. In fact, the only time the paper seems to have mentioned the Rich pardon in conjunction with the Obama campaign was in the course of a story about Obama ...

Why Is Rich Pardon Holder—Not Hillary—Problem?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... him as a frequent MSNBC guest, I've been impressed by his acumen and willingness to call them as he sees them.   Take O'Donnell's intervention on tonight's "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," where he made the salient point that the scandal of the Marc Rich pardon is, ironically, being held against AG nominee Eric Holder . . . while Hillary Clinton skates. View video here.Host David Gregory broached the subject by quoting Richard Cohen's WaPo column. DAVID GREGORY: Let me turn, Pat Buchanan, to a potentially troublesome area ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... As it is, Bush is getting better press this week than, say, Eric Holder, who's been slammed by Richard Cohen in The Washington Post for enabling the Marc Rich pardon, and who's the subject of stories such as Politico's ...

GOP Forming United Opposition To Holder Nomination
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... "I am not alone," Kyle said. "Others have written -- Richard Cohen, for example, wrote in 'The Washington Post' that Eric Holder should not be the Attorney General. I don't know whether he's right or not, but the questions that he raises need to be examined. Glenn Greenwald ...

GOP Signals Heated Confirmation Battle Over Holder
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... "I am not alone," Kyle said. "Others have written -- Richard Cohen, for example, wrote in 'The Washington Post' that Eric Holder should not be the Attorney General. I don't know whether he's right or not, but the questions that he raises need to be examined. Glenn Greenwald ...

Cheney and the Chain Gang
Obsidian Wings — ... that the GOP intends to make Eric Holder's role in pardoning Marc Rich fodder for his confirmation hearings - with some of the usual suspects eager to jump on the bandwagon.  Granted the Rich pardon was an unseemly use of that presidential prerogative, and Clinton deserves robust criticism for that decision, it is by no means the most egregious episode in Presidential pardoning. ...

GOP Senators Again Demonstrate Why They’re in the Minority
The Sundries Shack — It’s getting really close to pitchforks and torches time for conservative-minded folks who believe that Cabinet members shouldn’t have a history of handing out pardons to avowed killers based on their political value or to criminals willing to give a ton of money to the right politician . The Senate Judicial Committee passed AG nominee Eric Holder to the man body of the Senate for an approval vote on a 17-2 vote. The only Republicans voting against Holder were John Cornyn (who apparently grew a spine after approving the incompetent cheat Tim Geithner) and tom ...