RNC Chair: Obama, Holder, Don’t Respect the Bill of Rights

President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder don’t respect the Bill of Rights, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday.

His comments were in reference to the IRS targeting of conservative political groups and the Justice Department’s seizure of reporters’ e-mails, which he discussed with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Priebus said the federal government under Obama has grown “so big and unwieldy” that administration officials now routinely – and somewhat plausibly – claim incompetence, rather than take responsibility for inappropriate behavior.

“That’s an America that our Founding Fathers didn’t fight for,” Priebus said. “I think that we need to go back to a constitutional America that respects the Bill of Rights, [something] that this president and this [attorney general] don’t do.”