Posted on 11/02/2007 1:19:13 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy will vote against the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, a source close to the senator told CNN Friday.
The Vermont Democrat, who is to make an announcement Friday afternoon, is the latest committee Democrat who will oppose Mukasey because of questions about his views on the interrogation technique called "waterboarding" and the president's power to order electronic surveillance.
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Well, I’m shocked.
Poor Leaky. He’s got his Depends all in a bind.
Did anyone ever really believe the Dems would vote for a Bush nominee? If so, then they must be very gullible.
So they will not let us have an attorney general unless he dismantles the war on terror.
He’s a good friend of Schumer. This should be a Kodak moment.
Exactly, let them break for Thanksgiving and appoint whomever you want.
works for me...
Leahy is more like an @$$ than a head.
Bush is going into campaign mode...he’s gonna have Democrats on the hood of his pick-em up like a good Texan...
Oct. 16, 2007 - WASHINGTON - Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey is headed for swift approval with scant objections, the powerful Democrat who will chair his confirmation hearings said Tuesday.
"I would expect him to be confirmed," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told reporters after meeting with the former federal judge.
"I like Judge Mukasey," Leahy added. "I want him to succeed."
Breaking on msnbc this afternoon:
Feinstein and Schumer will vote FOR Mukasey...so he will be confirmed.
If the Democrats want waterboarding to be illegal, then they ought to pass a law to make it illegal.
Has this lying piece of hate-America filthy ever voted FOR someone nominated by Bush?
Leahy and the rest of the dems should be sued if and when Al Qaeda bombs us again. They’ve undermined the troops at every turn and done their level best to leave the country naked and defenseless.
Correct form of “torture” - listening to a Schumer press conference or watching Chris Matthews on Hardball.
I’m shocked!!
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijDA5bgxiHlTvS_r-SSjskS1Tq1wD8SLOM380
Give them a REAL CONSERVATIVE!! Bush, Keep doing it till the end of your term. If they want to appease their base let them do it HERE!!
Don't tell me there isn't a difference between the two parties.
Another reason I am, and will forever be, a
Recovering_Democat.
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