WASHINGTON, May 17, 2007
Dems Seek No-Confidence Vote On Gonzales
Schumer And Feinstein Say Attorney General Has Been Too Weakened To Do His Job
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Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California, who have led the investigation into the conduct of White House officials and Gonzales, said the attorney general has become too weakened to run the department.
"It seems the only person who has confidence in the attorney general is President Bush," Schumer told reporters. "The president long ago should have asked the attorney general to step down."
"I think the time has come for the Senate to express its will," Feinstein said. "We lack confidence in the attorney general."
Schumer said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid supports the resolution and would try to bring it to a floor vote next week. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, too, was expected to sign on.
"I have absolutely no confidence in the attorney general or his leadership," Leahy, D-Vt, said earlier in the day.
Schumer predicted the resolution, which has yet to be finalized, would win support from at least the 60 senators required to beat a filibuster.
Five Republican senators have called outright for Gonzales' resignation, including Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who added his voice Thursday. Several other Republicans have suggested that Gonzales consider stepping down.
One of the latter group, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, has left no doubt that he thinks Gonzales should leave. But he told The Associated Press that he wanted to see Schumer's resolution before saying he would vote for it.
The announcement is the latest in a series of blows suffered by Gonzales this week, including new criticism from Republicans and the prediction of one GOP veteran that the investigation into the firings of federal prosecutors would end with the attorney general's resignation.
Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said earlier Thursday that the Justice Department can't properly protect the nation from terrorism or oversee Mr. Bush's no-warrant eavesdropping program with Gonzales at the helm.
"I have a sense that when we finish our investigation, we may have the conclusion of the tenure of the attorney general," Specter said during a committee hearing. "I think when our investigation is concluded, it'll be clear even to the attorney general and the president that we're looking at a dysfunctional department which is vital to the national welfare."
His comment echoed new criticism of Gonzales this week. Former deputy attorney general James Comey testified that Gonzales tried to get his predecessor as attorney general, John Ashcroft, to approve Mr. Bush's eavesdropping program as Ashcroft lay in intensive care.
Asked twice during a news conference Thursday if he personally ordered Gonzales and then-White House chief of staff Andrew Card to Ashcroft's hospital room, Mr. Bush refused to answer.
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Posted by RandalDS at 03:47 PM : May 17, 2007
And cheney AMEN
The whole lot of 'em are just dirty.
"Asked twice during a news conference Thursday if he personally ordered Gonzales and then-White House chief of staff Andrew Card to Ashcroft's hospital room, Mr. Bush refused to answer."
IMPEACH THESE CRIMINALS NOW! This is not how America is supposed to be!
Posted by RandalDS at 03:47 PM : May 17, 2007
And cheney AMEN
Try ALLLL of them for crimes against the CONSTITUTION!!! NOW!!!!!!
By the way nothing except for a little *** was found on Clinton. The Dems are doing everything not to get rid of the President and the Vice President. They are trying to work with him but like everything he does it is either his way or no way. His time is coming just like the rest.
One other thing the people who broke the Geneva convention rules are only protected in the US. Once outside they can be carted off and tried. Too bad for them hope they enjoy their prison.
As things stand now, six sleaze-filled years later, I know that it was the best thing I could have done for myself, if a bit cowardly.
This useless, elitist, chronic failure, far more than being the worst president in the country's history, has bankrupted the nation with his contrived war (oil deal) trashed the constitution ("just a ********* piece of paper")dismantled 30 years of environmental legislation and made America the most reviled nation on the planet when we used to be the most admired.
Unlike Bush/Cheney, I fought & bled for my country, and am appalled that they just keep getting away with their treason. They are criminals, true, but not very clever ones. It should be obvious to all what they are, yet the people do nothing.
The nation must take a long hard look at itself and try to figure out where things went so wrong and how to repair it.
Here's a suggestion...VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTE ALL MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS MEMBERS OF AN ONGOING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE!
FIRE ROVE, LORD BUSH, GONZOLAS, RICE, KING CHENEY, GATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by notblue at 05:19 PM : May 17, 2007
Please oh PLEASE learn the difference between "there" and "their" and "they're".
BTW, Dem president in '08 guaranteed... or Ron Paul on the Republican side is a possibility too... otherwise fuggetabbotit
Having vowed to leave the United States if that draft-dodging moron Bush was elected President, I now live in Europe, although technically, I didn't have to,as he wasn't elected, just appointed by a partisan Supreme Court...
...Unlike Bush/Cheney, I fought & bled for my country, and am appalled that they just keep getting away with their treason. They are criminals, true, but not very clever ones. It should be obvious to all what they are, yet the people do nothing.
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Please share with us what country you are in currently. You left that out of your post.
Thanks
Posted by ddaymichael at 05:45 PM : May 17, 2007
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The Bush criminals had a good teacher:
The Clinton Legacy:
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
Try again.
Posted by dlpracer at 06:28 PM : May 17, 2007
Oh, right, 'cause it's all about Clinton. How many years since he was in office again? It was... two terms ago, wasn't it?
Yeah, I remember back then. Hooboy, wasn't that a great time! Bill's pecadillos filling the newsfeeds, while the PNAC cabal of Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Gonzales, Ashcroft etc., prepared plans to invade countries, destroy habeus corpus, shred the constitution, run up the largest deficit in American history, ignore the other two equal components of our democracy (legislative and judicial), illegally spy on our people, engage in torture, and kill thousands of American troops in a useless war created under false pretences.
Yep, all about Bill. Heh.
I intentionally left that out as I didn't want neocon dipsh*ts and Bush apologists like you knowing any more about me than I deem absolutely necessary. I have no desire to share anything with one of your ilk.
By the way...don't you ever generate any original thoughts?
That anti-Clinton diatribe of yours has been posted so many times, I can practically recite your whining babble from memory while certainly not wanting to.
If you're lame enough to equate getting a ******* from a rather homely intern with Bush's ongoing treason, you probably think professional wrestling is real...or...you are in the employ of the enemy...BUSH!
Gingrich and the other Republican super-hypocrites only succeeded in making America more of a laughingstock around the world than their ridiculous partisan antics already had.
...most of your allegations go towards the Monica thing, which is no busines of anyone else's other than Hillary, Bill and Monica.
---no it's about perjury, lying, not telling the truth under oath. Get it?
--None of this stands up to the repeated attempts of the chimp to recind our civil liberties
Please name ONE civil liberty that YOU have given up? You are reading too many left wing blogs. Do you own a credit card?....fly commercial?, own a cell phone? Shop at Walmart?
Then what you have already given up to PRIVATE BUSINESS pales in comparison to what THEY know about YOU. Gimme a break!
--You are just like most diehard neocons, the chimp included, who value their own ideology above the constitution.
Nope, I'm an die hard independent. Both sides call me names when I post different from their blinded hate for the other side.
YOU are one of them. YOUR half truths stick out like a sore thumb.
Try again
I intentionally left that out as I didn't want neocon dipsh*ts and Bush apologists like you knowing any more about me than I deem absolutely necessary. I have no desire to share anything with one of your ilk.
--No you won't say because you are still in the country. Your story about moving out is BS to the highest order. I admire you trying to get your point across...but leaving the country because Bush was elected?.....gimme a break. If your life is so out-of-your-control, that who sits in the white house makes you leave, then you forgot to take your meds.
--If you're lame enough to equate getting a ******* from a rather homely intern with Bush's ongoing treason, you probably think professional wrestling is real...or...you are in the employ of the enemy...BUSH!
Again, it is about perjury...P-E-R-J-U-R-Y. Get it? Is Bush innocent of crimes...history will tell, but if he has committed treason, then where are all of your left wing friends that would love to hang him from the gallows?
Try again.
Posted by ddaymichael at 07:09 PM : May 17, 2007
Really? I guess it wassn't a laughing stock when Willie was getting his dic$ sucked by an intern all while Bin Laden was first appearing on the radar screen. Remember the USS COLE and the WTC Bombing in '93. He was busy getting impeached and letting the military go to waste. You know your a liberal when you care about what France thinks of America.
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
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[Posted by dlpracer at 06:28 PM : May 17, 2007]
this says that clinton was a really bad guy ... or ... the right wing did a great job of making him look that way.
[Posted by mpville72 at 07:25 PM : May 17, 2007]
did you know that there were 10 convictions for the '93 wtc attacks totalling over 2400 years in prison (240 yr/each)?
Bill Clinton had the ingredients to be a great President. Unfortunately, he was impulsive and let his personal foibles distract him from the duty of protecting the country...that can not be denied. I respected his ability to communicate and bind people together.
It is too bad he couldn't control himself.
Hillary will probably be elected President in '08. Can Bill control himself and will Hillary protect us?
Big questions.
Posted by mpville72 at 07:25 PM : May 17, 2007
Lets see what is worse.... Destroying the US Treasury and our way of life or getting a BJ in the oval office. I know you bible thumping jerks vote the latter. And please remember France has always been a close ally to this nation since it beginning. It only turned it back on us when GW started a war with no evidence and continued to be stuborn about it.
Posted by bobnjersey at 07:38 PM : May 17, 2007
I'm sorry, are you arguing that this makes it okay that it happened. Did Clinton let the military go to waste? YES
Did he allow Bin Laden to escape only to resurface again with the Cole attack? YES
I hope it was a good BL0WJ0B.
You sound awful okay with that and ready to go to the voting machines to vote for Hillary in '08.
Posted by mpville72 at 07:47 PM : May 17, 2007
Compared to the last 6 years...YES I AM
Posted by LiberalVet at 07:45 PM : May 17, 2007
UH Sorry but France has been no ally to US you jacka$$. They would be speaking German twice in the last century if it wasn't for us. The fact that they haven't supported us like Britain has along with about 10 other countries with troops in IRAQ. Why don't you look up the Nuclear reactor they sold IRAQ a few years back or the fact that they named a street after MUMIA ABU JAMAL.
Your not a liberal vet.
Your a liberal PU$$Y
Destroying the US Treasury??
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Oh please...more details. I can't wait to hear what the left wing wacko blogs are saying GWB did to the treasury.
...you people seriously need to get a life!
...you people seriously need to get a life!
Posted by dlpracer at 07:57 PM : May 17, 2007
Easy... we had a surplus of cash when when you wack jobs took over.... now we have $5 trillion defiect and it is growing everyday...
Know try to argue that one... This will be hiliarious
What we should do is just tell them all that Bush stepped down and Bill Clinton took over again. Nothing would change, but they would be happy again, cause Slick Willie was in control and he looked good with a SAX in his hand on MTV. Then they could continue with their cyber lives.
Know try to argue that one... This will be hiliarious
Posted by LiberalVet at 08:01 PM : May 17, 2007
Okay...I'm going to try and correct your grammar here.
1. Its a defecit not a deiect.
2. When you are speaking to someone like you were when you said "Know try to argue that one." The correct verbage should be "NOW try to argue that one." You didn't make it too far in school I take it.
Your grammar astonishingly is far better than any of your arguments....which by the way make no sense.
'00 SORE / LOSERMAN
'04 VERRY / BACKWARDS
'08 WE'LLKICK / YERASSAGAIN
Great...you have no means to support your statements but in true NEOSON style you attack the fact that I mistyped a word or two. Attack something irrelevent to hide that fact that you are an idiot that is dead wrong....
Know try to argue that one... This will be hiliarious
Posted by LiberalVet at 08:01 PM : May 17, 2007
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You probably missed economics class in high school, but let me help you.
The deficit (correct spelling, you missed that class too eh?) pertain to the "economy", not the treasury.
A budget deficit occurs when the government spends more money than it takes in. The opposite is a budget surplus.
The 2005 fiscal year deficit amounted to 2.6% of GDP, below the 3.6% recorded in 2004 and the post World War Two high of 6% in 1983.
Seems like we didn't fail after that...did we. Go back to your blogs.
Try again
Even when the DOJ itself wouldn't sign off on Bush's illegal wiretapping - AND both Comey and Ashcroft agreed that it was illegal way back in '04 - Bush reauthorized it anyway, KNOWING it was illegal.
Cut to acting AG Comey getting an emergency phone call and rushing to the hospital to protect an ailing and semi-conscious Ashcroft from Gonzales and Andy Card, who were trying an end run around Comey to get the illegal wiretaps authorized. I assume so they could have a fall guy in place when it all went up in flames. And Gonzales is Attorney General now? Well, George Bush picked him, so it's kind of par for the course.
Moron.... The budget is stored in the US Treasury. Yes I agree spending more than is brought in creates a defecit, and that is exactly what has occurred over the past 6+ years. Stop trying to take a snap shot of 04 -05 and cover up the fact that the right wing congress blew through trillions of tax payers money.
mpville - as far as you thinking I am Liberal P*ssy does not matter. I know what I sacrificed for this great country. Unforunately I gave that so azzholes like you could have freedoms to spout your narrow minded statements and attempt to supress those very freedoms for all Americans. Question to you have you ever served, if so thanks if not go f*ck yourself?
No you won't say because you are still in the country. Your story about moving out is BS to the highest order. I admire you trying to get your point across...but leaving the country because Bush was elected?.....gimme a break.
Imagine my concern as to what a jerk*ff like you believes or doesn't believe.
If you go back on a promise made to yourself, than you can't trust anyone...and the only meds I take these days are painkillers to remind me of that other treasonous SOB, Nixon who caused the Vietnam war to go on for another seven years so he could become president(does the name Anna Chenault ring a bell?)
And why would I ever want to give a foul creature like you a break?
Posted by ddaymichael at 08:55 PM : May 17, 2007
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Of course a blind partisan like yourself sees no blame in what JFK and LBJ did to escalate the war.
Thanks for your service to the country. However, at least you came back....my brother (1967) didn't.
Sorry to hear about your pain.
Cheers.
[Posted by mpville72 at 07:47 PM : May 17, 2007]
Here was Secretary Cheney, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Jan. 31, 1992:
"Overall, since I've been Secretary, we will have taken the five-year defense program down by well over $300 billion. That's the peace dividend. %u2026 And now we're adding to that another $50 billion %u2026 of so-called peace dividend".
Cheney then lit into the Democratic-controlled Congress for not cutting weapons systems enough:
"Congress has let me cancel a few programs. But you've squabbled and sometimes bickered and horse-traded and ended up forcing me to spend money on weapons that don't fill a vital need in these times of tight budgets and new requirements. %u2026 You've directed me to buy more M1s, F14s, and F16s%u2014all great systems %u2026 but we have enough of them".
Your not a liberal vet.
Your a liberal PU$$Y
Posted by mpville72 at 07:57 PM : May 17, 2007
What a complete and utter right wing crock of sh*it. France was an ally of the US's before there was a US and was the first nation to recognize our sovereignty. As for the arrogant "They'd be speaking German without us" bullsh*it we did NOT save them from Germany. We joined WITH them and many other allies to defeat a COMMON enemy. Germany was just as big of a threat to us as it was to France, so it's not like we went over there and rescued them out of the goodness of our heart. Our interests were every bit as much at stake as the French or the Brits. have you ever considered reading SOME history before you speak? or are you like that ****king idiot in the White House who doesn't understand it?
Posted by RandalDS at 09:16 PM : May 17, 2007
IDIOT STATEMENT OF THE NIGHT GOES TO....
Really, and just how was Germany going to attack us? They already occupied France. The French were defenseless.
To say that the USA was as much at risk is the stupidest, most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Go to bed will ya.
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