aplusmnt said:
Heard something on radio about some sort of new non binding bill that the Dem's were going to vote on. I think it was about Attorney General Gonzales.
Them Dem's sure have become the champions of non binding, go nowhere legislation. They have to be the best at raising the most hoopla with out ever doing anything.
It doesn't look like its only Democrats that are calling for it...Sounds like he has lost his credibility with a whole lot of them- many saying he is a "Bush Boy" and working for the "laws according to GW" and "the politics of GW" instead of for the people of the US as he should be....
He is no longer the Presidents attorney , or the Republican Partys attorney- he is supposed to be the Attorney General representing the people of the US....
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Specter: Vote Could Force Gonzales Out
NewsMax.com Wires
Monday, May 21, 2007
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. 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, 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.
Five Republicans have urged Gonzales to resign over his firing of federal prosecutors, while
several other Republicans have expressed criticism of his actions.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/20/150646.shtml?s=lh
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WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says his long friendship with President Bush makes it easier to say "no" to him on sticky legal issues.
Gonzales' critics say the attorney is far more likely to say "yes," and they say that leaves the Justice Department vulnerable to a politically determined White House.
Probably not since Watergate has an attorney general been so closely bound to the White House. Gonzales has pushed counterterrorism programs that courts found unconstitutional and filled the ranks of federal prosecutors with Republican loyalists. In doing so,
he has put Bush's stamp on an a Cabinet department that is supposed to operate largely free of the White House and beyond the reach of politics.
"This intertwining of the political with the running of the Justice Department has gone on in other administrations, both Republican and Democrat," said Paul Rothstein, a professor at Georgetown Law School. "But I think it's being carried to a fine art by this president.
They leave no stone unturned to politicize where they think the law will permit it. And they push the line very far."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/20/154940.shtml?s=lh