NEWS & COMMENTARY Ryan calls for the removal of Eric Holder



Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has come out in support to the removal of Attorney General Eric Holder. He is also warning that Second Amendment right will be in serious jeopardy if Barack Obama is re-elected. The Daily Caller is reporting: Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees with presidential candidate Mitt Romney's call for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, or for President Barack Obama to fire him, over Operation Fast and Furious, a Ryan spokesman told The Daily Caller.



"The congressman agrees with the governor," Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck told TheDC on Sunday, referring to Mitt Romney's call for Holder's resignation or termination over the gunwalking scandal last December.



"Either Mr. Holder himself should resign, or the president should ask for his resignation or remove him," Romney said in December 2011. "It's unacceptable for him to continue in that position now given the fact that he has misled Congress and entirely botched the investigation of the Fast and Furious program."



Ryan's call for Holder's ouster over Fast and Furious comes a day after he told a sportsmen's group that gun owners should be worried about Obama trying to infringe on their Second Amendment rights if he is re-elected. Speaking about Fast and Furious specifically, Ryan said at the Saturday event that such an operation "would never occur under a Romney-Ryan administration," according to CBS News,



Ryan now becomes the 131st House GOP member to demand Holder's resignation over the scandal. Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has come out in support to the removal of Attorney General Eric Holder. He is also warning that Second Amendment right will be in serious jeopardy if Barack Obama is re-elected. Theis reporting: Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees with presidential candidate Mitt Romney's call for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, or for President Barack Obama to fire him, over Operation Fast and Furious, a Ryan spokesman told The Daily Caller."The congressman agrees with the governor," Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck told TheDC on Sunday, referring to Mitt Romney's call for Holder's resignation or termination over the gunwalking scandal last December."Either Mr. Holder himself should resign, or the president should ask for his resignation or remove him," Romney said in December 2011. "It's unacceptable for him to continue in that position now given the fact that he has misled Congress and entirely botched the investigation of the Fast and Furious program."Ryan's call for Holder's ouster over Fast and Furious comes a day after he told a sportsmen's group that gun owners should be worried about Obama trying to infringe on their Second Amendment rights if he is re-elected. Speaking about Fast and Furious specifically, Ryan said at the Saturday event that such an operation "would never occur under a Romney-Ryan administration," according to CBS News,Ryan now becomes the 131st House GOP member to demand Holder's resignation over the scandal. Click here to read the rest of the story.

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