Senators Planning Ways to Oust Gonzales (Nothing on perjury)

FOX NEWS ^ | 8/2/2007 | LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

[tobyhill]

WASHINGTON — Senators in both parties concede they don't have enough evidence make a perjury charge stick against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. But that doesn't mean they're going to quit trying to pry him from office.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is considering asking the Justice Department's inspector general to examine whether Gonzales' answers to questions from lawmakers amount to misconduct.

"I am deeply concerned about the seriousness of his misleading testimony and the pattern that has developed with regards to the attorney general's testimony over the years," Leahy said Thursday. "At the very least, I am considering sending his answers as they stand to the inspector general for review."

Ranking committee Republican Arlen Specter doesn't sound like he'd stand in the way.

"I think we need to finish this (the committee's) investigation and find a way to end the tenure of Attorney General Gonzales," Pennsylvania Sen. Specter said Thursday at a hearing.

In the House, a group of Democrats have introduced a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee there to impeach Gonzales. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, who has called for a new attorney general, said the measure had merit but was not atop her list of priorities.

[Popman]

The Dems are trying to force him from office so they can make Bush send them a inside man to confirm in Senate confirmation hearing when he resigns

That's the bottom line

[Popman]

What is it with them wanting to get rid of him so badly

Remember, if they force him out of office, THEY (dems) get to set the ground rules for the next confirmation hearing for the next AG

They want to install an inside man to expose Bush's so called crimes

[lowbridge]

"I am deeply concerned about the seriousness of his misleading testimony and the pattern that has developed -Leaky Leahy, now

Leaky Leahy then:

Procedural and Factual Insufficiencies In The The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton

Analysis By Senator Patrick Leahy Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/199902/990211ext.html

Motion to Dismiss the Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/199901/990128a.html

Public Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On His Decision To Vote No On Both Articles Of Impeachment

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/199902/990211.html