Specter: Vote could force Gonzales out

Source: AP via Yahoo News

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
9 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate committee investigating Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday he believes Gonzales could step down before a no-confidence vote sought this week by Senate Democrats.

Gonzales failed to draw a public statement of support from Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record). Asked whether Gonzales effectively can lead the Justice Department, McConnell said "that's for the president to decide." The senator suggested there may be several resolutions introduced to dilute a no-confidence vote.

"In the Senate, nobody gets a clear shot," said McConnell, R-Ky.

Yet Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he believed a "sizable number" of GOP lawmakers would join Democrats in expressing their lack of confidence in the attorney general.







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Talks a big game, votes a small game.

going to do.... put party ahead of nation and stick by this waste of space? I think I already know your answer. :grr:

He has done this exact move countless times. He makes a little noise, then returns to the puke fold. Screw him and any Dem that counts on him for anything.

NOT

If there was honor and integrity in the White House... a President with honor and integrity would had demanded Gonzales's resignation long before now.

silly ass games these schmucks play, like it's been said, Specter had his chance and chose not to second the motion for asking the slime ball to pack it the fuck in...!

do everything in there power to continue to use Gonzo as a human shield in an effort to protect Rove.

Gonzo is just the beginning and they are quite aware of it.

"torture memo" than for anything else (but then are so many unforgivables in his case, and we probably don't know the half of it), I dread Orrin Hatch (rumored) as AG. God, I despise that man. He reminds me of every pasty white, old, lecherous, Bible-thumping preacherman ever hated by womankind.

It is with him in mind that I coined the phrase Bushite "pod people" in Congress--i.e., the mindless koolaid drinkers that popped out of gooey white blobs inside of giant green pods, harvested somewhere around Santa Barbara, in the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." The spawn of the Devil. The frightening cultists who lure others to their doom with their brainwashed phrases.

Listening to Orrin Hatch is just as painful as listening to George Bush. It is the fingernail on the blackboard, to my ears.

I suppose it's utterly hopeless to expect the basketcase in the White House to do the right thing. He has never done so in his entire life. Not once. Maybe the consortium that is handling him might do it. Just to salvage something.

That is, appoint Patrick Fitzgerald as AG. But they would have to have decided to dump Cheney, and I don't think they have (or can).

Too bad from the Pukes point of view. In one stroke, they could save Junior's presidency from centuries of unmitigated, "without any redeeming features" vituperation by outraged historians (--should the planet and the human race survive all this).

This little tidbit from the article:

On Sunday, Schumer sent a letter to Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington, asking if they personally ordered Gonzales to Ashcroft's hospital room.

Can we just impeach the entire regime already?????

would find myself on the same side as Ashcroft. I have to give him this, he does have regard for the Constitution,

When John Ashcroft becomes the hero in your story, you know things are bad. When John Ashcroft looks like the good guy in something, you know things have hit rock bottom.

Until Gonzo was appointed, I thought no one could be worse than Ashcroft. :scared:

By contrast, here's an accurate headline:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/20/specter-believes-alberto-gonzales-will-step-down/

Just because someone is on our side doesn't mean we should permit falsehoods from our journalists.

Go ahead - make the claim that the difference between "stepping down" and "being forced out" is trivial.

I did not write the headline. I wrote nothing. That was an Associated Press article that was found on Yahoo News.

Golly gee - I just don't know *what* to make of this! lololol

Slightly off topic, but still Gonzo-gone-0, is The James Comey testimony on Tuesday we have a new revelation on how low Gonzales will go.
The March 2004 hospital room ambush by Gonzo & Andrew Card seems like a page from the Soprano's. They were trying to get Ashcroft to sign off on the NSA domestic spying program while he was medicated after surgery.
Panicked, his wife called acting attorney general James Comey telling him to get to the hospital fast and stop them from pressuring Ashcroft. He was telling them that the domestic spying program was illegal, and that Comey was the Attorney General now.
Unbelievable but true.
I had to devote this as this weeks installment of my political cartoon series to this topic.
It's up on my website.
www.whatnowtoons.com