This guy is obviously in the wrong party.....
Posted on 05/09/2011 4:41:14 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama's nominee to be Attorney General Eric Holder's top deputy at the Justice Department crashed into a Republican roadblock in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, garnering just 50 votes, 10 short of the number needed to break a GOP-led filibuster. Dick Lugar of Indiana was the lone Republican to support the nomination. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., switched his vote at the last minute to 'no' in order to have the vote reconsidered at a later date.
James Cole, a veteran Washington attorney nominated in May, had been serving in the position since late December courtesy of a presidential recess appointment, one that expires at the end of the current session of Congress. And despite the bipartisan support of eight former attorneys general, Republicans remained steadfast in their opposition, though nothing about Monday night's vote changes Cole's temporary job status.
GOP problems with the deputy attorney general are two-fold. Not only is there concern about Cole's tenure as an independent consultant to insurance industry giant AIG prior to the company's near-collapse in 2008 and its subsequent government bailout, but Republicans also voiced strong concern about what they believe to be his soft-on-terrorism stance.
Republican senators repeatedly referred to an op-ed the nominee penned in 2002 in the Legal Times in which Cole referred to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as "criminal acts of terrorism against a civilian population," and included the attacks in the same vein as "many other devastating crimes" like rape, drug trade, organized crime, and child abuse.
Cole told Judiciary Committee members in his confirmation hearing last year that decisions to try alleged terrorists should be made on a case-by-case basis, not ruling out military commissions for some. The Obama administration has since said it will try the alleged 9/11 terrorists imprisoned at the Guantanamo facility...
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This guy is obviously in the wrong party.....
Mark Kirk of Illinois must have been out of town that day or he would have provided more "bipartisan" support to Obama's marxist nominee.
YES! Tell me the Republicans have finally grown a pair!
I agree and he’s running for reelection in 2012. He doesn’t seem to have any loyalty to Republicans.
So far so good. This Cole looks like obama’s lackey.
“Lugar has got to go!”
If that sob wins another 6 years God help us!
I know several people in Indiana and not one of them think Lugar will retain his seat in the next election.
Dick Lugar.
What disgrace.
I know it’s wishful thinking but do you know if a Repub will run in the primary against him?
“YES! Tell me the Republicans have finally grown a pair!”
Go back to sleep and keep dreaming :(
Dick Lugar of Indiana was the lone Republican to support the nomination...
Nuts
I know there is talk of primarying Lugar, but I do not know yet who has the best shot at knocking him out. I do know that Lugar has shot his wad with conservatives, and will not get any conservative support. If he is not primaried, the Dim will beat him.
Actually he looks closer to 80 because he was actually born in ‘32, not ‘52. Lugar, do the world a favor and pls retire you old Rino fart, and let a younger fresh conservative person take over, thanks, Indiana deserves better.
Thanks much. What a great thing if a conservative can primary him.
Lugar is awfully arrogant. You’d think he’d vote more conservatively if he’s serious about winning his primary.
His comparing Mourdock to Angle and O’Donnell isn’t gonna work. Mourdock has won statewide.
I’m glad that Republicans were able to stop this nomination.
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