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Biden Says He Is Leaning Against Gonzales Confirmation
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| Jan. 23, 2005
| Reuters-WP
Posted on 01/23/2005 12:53:14 PM PST by FairOpinion
WASHINGTON - Sen. Joseph Biden, a senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said Sunday he was leaning against confirmation of Alberto Gonzales, President Bush's choice to be the next attorney general.
Bush's choice of his White House counsel to be the nation's top lawman, "may very well do us more harm internationally because of its relationship with the terror memos," the senator from Delaware said on the ABC News program "This Week."
"My inclination right now is to vote against him," Biden said. He is the third ranking Democrat on the panel.
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a vote on Gonzales' nomination after Democrats charged he had evaded their questions about Bush administration policies on the treatment of prisoners captured during U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been criticized for his role in shaping those policies.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: biden; confirmation; gonzales; loonyleft
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Biden and the Democrats -- the terrorists best friends.
To: FairOpinion
Who cares? He doesn't matter.
To: FairOpinion
He's obviously plagiarising off of Kerry and Boxer's votes.
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01/23/2005 12:55:07 PM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: FairOpinion
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01/23/2005 12:55:09 PM PST
by
Jimmy97
To: FairOpinion
Since gonzales is anti-2nd Amendment, I'd be against him too.
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posted on
01/23/2005 12:55:24 PM PST
by
flashbunny
(Every thought that enters my head requires its own vanity thread.)
To: FairOpinion
Leaning against.
Joe Biden. The Leaning Tower of Principle.
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posted on
01/23/2005 12:56:29 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
To: FairOpinion
How long before the tancredoites on FR, start pushing for a biden Presidency.
Anybody want to start a pool?
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posted on
01/23/2005 12:56:50 PM PST
by
Dane
(I loath the mainstream media as much as clinton loathed the military)
To: FairOpinion
Biden are an a55!
Top sends
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posted on
01/23/2005 12:57:56 PM PST
by
petro45acp
(Democrat = socialist. Say it loud, say it often, and VOTE!!)
To: FairOpinion
If the Democrats are going to grand-stand against every nominee for any office... why don't the Republicans in congress just roll right over them?
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01/23/2005 12:59:05 PM PST
by
Betaille
(Harry Potter is a Right-Winger)
To: FairOpinion
Personally, I would like to see Republicans take out ads "calling Democrats as racists" in various selected newspapers and 1-minute sound bytes in Spanish Language radio stations, in the home territories of Democrats opposing Gonzales Confirmation.
Since the Dem's never hesitate to "play the race card," I would like to see it played against them.
P.S. I would also like to see some similar adds aimed at those that hassled Condi Rice in her confirmation hearings.
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01/23/2005 1:01:27 PM PST
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: FairOpinion
I saw this camera hound saying this today and, aside from my seeing his performance as being yet another attempt to grab some air time, I had the reaction 'So What'.
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01/23/2005 1:02:11 PM PST
by
drt1
To: flashbunny
FB - I think that is a safe statement on his part because no such bill will get off the floor by either DeLay or Frist. GWB said the same thing in the 2000 election and it meant nothing.
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01/23/2005 1:02:36 PM PST
by
thummy
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: FairOpinion
Biden leaning left? Now there's a shocker!
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01/23/2005 1:03:09 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: FairOpinion
Biden has become a clownish figure. He needs a bigger come over, Yea, that's the ticket ....
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posted on
01/23/2005 1:03:35 PM PST
by
John Lenin
(We used to shoot horse thieves)
To: Betaille
What makes you think they won't?
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posted on
01/23/2005 1:04:23 PM PST
by
BackInBlack
("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
To: Robert357
Got to be some old kkk clips of byrd early on somewhere someone could drag out.
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posted on
01/23/2005 1:04:33 PM PST
by
commonguymd
(My impatience is far more advanced than any known technology.)
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posted on
01/23/2005 1:04:49 PM PST
by
John Lenin
(We used to shoot horse thieves)
To: DoughtyOne
Watch all the '08 wannabees dive left, except for Billary which will hog the center and win the nomination going away.
To: Betaille
If the Democrats are going to grand-stand against every nominee for any office... why don't the Republicans in congress just roll right over them? It's in the rules that the dems can delay a nomination for a week.
BFD, IMO, Gonzales, Rice(etc.etc.) will be confirmed.
This just gives the Dummies(the base of the democrat party)and mainstream media a reason to think they're relavant somehow.
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01/23/2005 1:05:15 PM PST
by
Dane
(I loath the mainstream media as much as clinton loathed the military)
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