The frightening specter of Phil Spector.
Posted on 06/11/2007 11:38:39 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
WASHINGTON -- The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday he will vote for a no-confidence resolution against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, after long questioning the leadership and independence of President Bush's longtime friend.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, said he's concerned like others in his party that the resolution, sponsored by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and up for a test vote later in the day, was a Democratic effort to embarrass Bush and prompt Gonzales to resign. But Specter has long said that Gonzales has exercised poor leadership on a host of issues...
"If you ask Arlen Specter, do I have confidence in Attorney General Gonzales, the answer is a resounding no," Specter said during a news conference in Philadelphia. "I'm going to vote that I have no confidence in Attorney General Gonzales."
Despite Specter's decision and calls by five other Senate Republicans for Gonzales' resignation, no one was predicting that the symbolic no-confidence resolution would survive even the test vote Monday....
Still, few of the Senate's 99 members are rushing to defend Gonzales. What goodwill remained toward him after the firings of eight federal prosecutors over the winter seemed to fade after the attorney general told a Senate committee dozens of times that he could not recall key details....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
natch
Minor detail that “no confidence” votes are meaningless and play no role in our system of government.
....any relation to Phil Specter?.......lol
This is to be followed by a “your hair is stupid” vote.
I think that No confidence votes are a part of Scottish Law. But they sure are not part of American Law.
When people think of Congress not doing what they should and spending time on nonsense, this type of matter should be at the top of the list. So they have no confidence, what does that really mean? Bush still has confidence in the guy. Can an attorney general be impeached? Or otherwise disciplined by Congress?
Come on now, you know Spector is a confidence man from way back.
America to vote no confidence on Congress.
To the Specter detractors.....When my brother was serving in Iraq and did not have the equipment he needed (night vision etc), I called and email Santorum’s office and Specter’s office.
One took the issue and got all of the supplies; the other office I never heard from.
In case you were wondering, it was Arlen Specter who got the DOD to come through with the equipment. I would be willing to do a TV spot for him for that. He really came through. Too often the detractors cannot se the positives. There are many positives with Specter. I and my brother are forever indebted to him.
“not part of American Law”
-No Kidding
What the hell are these dolts thinking?
Hasn’t all this symbolic-vote, grandstanding crap been played out yet?
—He asked rhetorically—
Specter has sure got all the miles he ever needed what with that “majic bullet” theory.
No; more closely related to "Sphincter" though.....
The frightening specter of Phil Spector.
Bush and the WHOLE Senate Judiciary voted unanimously to keep this RAT in PUB title as chair. Betrayal of the worst kind.
Willful waste, makes woeful want.
I vote no confidence in Specter also.
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