This will be an interesting vote: The Senate will hold a “no confidence†vote on embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this Monday, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, announced. In a statement released Friday, Schumer said if all senators followed their conscience, “this vote would be unanimous.†“However, the president will certainly exert pressure to support […]
This is from “the Decider“: President Bush gave embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a strong vote of confidence on Monday despite scant support and scathing criticism from key Republicans. “This is an honest, honorable man, in whom I have confidence,” Bush said. The president said that Gonzales’ testimony before skeptical Judiciary Committee senators last week […]
Today’sNYT: Four senators said Monday that they suspected that the Justice Department had failed to turn over all relevant documents related to the dismissals of eight United States attorneys. The department has released more than 3,000 pages of e-mail messages and other files. But, the senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. […]
A new CBS poll shows that 76% believe the administration hasn’t done enough to care for our wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan (h/t Steve). Of course the new person the Pentagon chose to run Walter Reed, Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, believes that the reports of neglect are a lie: Pollock, in an e-mail […]
Aravosis is all over this story. He has more posts to read here, here and here. We can not sit by and let this happen to our soldiers. It is bad enough they were sent into a war based on lies, but then to treat them like this after they get injured there is beyond […]
It is being reported that Bush will call for an additional 20,000 troops tonight, but opposition to his plan is growing fast on the right side of the aisle: Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they intended to hold symbolic votes in the House and Senate on President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Baghdad, […]
Iraq was the key issue in the mid-term elections. Republicans and Democrats actually agree on that assessment. Now we are seeing a growing number of Republicans speaking out against the administration (it has become the hip thing to do). As if that isn’t enough, we found out via a new ABC poll of Senators that […]
Reuters is reporting this on the news of Bolton’s resignation: “Despite the support of a strong bipartisan majority of senators, Ambassador Bolton’s confirmation was blocked by a Democrat filibuster, and this is a clear example of the breakdown in the Senate confirmation process,” [Dana] Perino said. Now at last check, the Bolton nomination was till […]
The right-wing blogosphere is in meltdown over the loss of their beloved John Bolton. Redstate: The good news just keeps on coming these days. John Bolton has tendered his resignation, and President Bush has “reluctantly” accepted it. I admit to a little frustraton with Mr. Bush on this; while I know confirming Mr. Bolton in […]
Apparently it is a good thing when used by the Reverend Jerry Falwell. He called Hillary Clinton “Lucifer” in a sermon, and is defending that as being a “joke”. So when a religious leader calls one of our senators (and a former first lady) Lucifer, it is ok, yet when Chavez calls Bush the devil, […]