To be blunt, even though he or she is a presidential appointee, there’s a reason an A.G. has to be confirmed by Congress: a U.S. Attorney General is there to serve the American People, to serve Justice; Not to function as a tool, a political hack for the president.

What Wolf would call “the president’s butt-boy”.

But that’s what this specimen (Eric Holder) has turned out to be, just a despicable creature serving the whims of a president whose ambitions for this country are the direct opposite of what the founding fathers intended, what the Constitution lays out.

Now Congress is calling him to task for his sorry performance, his betrayal of the American People, his reticence where embracing the truth is concerned.

Attorney General Eric Holder is used to being treated as a punching bag on Capitol Hill.

But the ire directed his way on Tuesday topped even the normal pummeling.

There was the old standby — Holder’s response to the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal — and a new flurry of criticism over his refusal to appoint an independent counsel to investigate leaks of national security secrets.

Republicans unleashed a two-front attack on the attorney general. They assailed him during a regularly scheduled oversight hearing, where he faced new calls for his resignation, and on the Senate floor, where Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced a resolution, urging a special counsel for the leak probe.

Several GOP senators tried to weave the Fast and Furious and leak-related stories into a common narrative. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) linked the two as he called for the first time for Holder to step down.

“There has been zero accountability at the Department of Justice. … The leaking of classified information represents a major threat to national security, and your office faces a clear conflict of interest, yet you will not appoint a special counsel,” Cornyn told the attorney general. “Meanwhile, you still resist coming clean about what you knew and when you knew it with regard to Operation Fast and Furious. You won’t cooperate with the legitimate congressional investigation, and you won’t hold anyone — including yourself — accountable.

“It is more with sorrow than regret and anger that I would say that you leave me no alternative than to join those who call upon you to resign your office,” Cornyn said, joining three other Republican senators and several dozen House members who have called on Holder to go. “Americans deserve an attorney general who will be honest with them. They deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability. You have proven time and time again, sadly, that you’re unwilling to do so. … You have violated the public trust, in my view.”

Bravo, Mr. Cornyn! Talk about hitting the nail squarely on the head…

Holder said he has no plans to quit.

“I don’t have any intention of resigning. I heard the White House press officer say yesterday that the president has absolute confidence in me. I don’t have any reason to believe that, in fact, is not the case.”

Of course not: A weasel like the guy occupying the Oval Office at the moment undoubtedly treasures a co-weasel who so completely covers his every political whim, legal, moral or otherwise to both.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also linked the day’s two primary GOP critiques of Holder, arguing he was complicit in a kind of selective transparency being practiced by the Obama administration.

“You’ve got one program called Fast and Furious that’s been an embarrassment to the administration, and it’s been like pulling teeth to get information about Fast and Furious: who knew what and when. And when you have programs on the national security front that seem to show the president as a strong leader, you can read about it in the paper,” Graham said. “I’m very disturbed about the inability to get information regarding programs that are embarrassing and the tendency of this administration to tell the whole world about things that are good.”

Double Bravo, Mr. Graham!

Who would have thought dreamed, less even than a generation ago, that the American People would ever actually vote in an Administration as dangerous to the future of our country as the present one?

Third world country? Communist country? Lived in one that was both, don’t want to do it again here, too, thank you!

Where the parties within the Obama Administration who are leaking, or behind the leaking of national security secrets are concerned, up to and including the president, Hard Astarboard completely agrees with this man.

What they are doing, purely to glorify the Obama Administration for political gain is, purely and simply, TREASON.