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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (81612)	6/11/2007 11:15:05 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

Thanks for reminding me to recommend that post....now it will be three recs....at least. I suspect there will be more.....the rational types on SI enjoy a good chuckle at your expense....

To: Land Shark who wrote (81612)	6/11/2007 6:53:19 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

once again the power of the FAILED PARTY that has led this nation into complete and utter corruption, a failed war on a global scale, and the destruction of our civil rights along the way BLOCKS THE CANNING OF A CORRUPT INEXPERIENCES CORPORATE LAW SCUMB CHOSEN BY BUSH TO LEAD JUSTICE....justice AHAHAHAAHHAHA GOP Blocks Gonzales No-Confidence Vote By LAURIE KELLMAN (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press June 11, 2007 4:32 PM EST WASHINGTON - Republicans blocked the Senate's no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday, rejecting a symbolic Democratic effort to prod him from office despite blistering criticism from lawmakers in both parties. The 53-38 vote to move the resolution to full debate fell seven short of the 60 required. In bringing the matter up, Democrats dared Republicans to vote their true feelings about an attorney general who has alienated even the White House's strongest defenders by bungling the firings of federal prosecutors and claiming not to recall the details. Republicans did not defend him, but most voted against moving the resolution ahead. Short of impeachment, Congress has no authority to oust a Cabinet member, but Democrats were trying anew to give him a push. Gonzales dismissed the rhetorical ruckus on Capitol Hill, and President Bush continued to stand by his longtime friend and legal adviser. "They can have their votes of no confidence, but it's not going to make the determination about who serves in my government," Bush said in Sofia, Bulgaria, the last stop on a weeklong visit to Europe. "This process has been drug out a long time," Bush added. "It's political." The attorney general said he was paying no attention to the rhetoric on Capitol Hill. "I am not focusing on what the Senate is doing," Gonzales said at a nuclear terrorism conference in Miami. "I am going to be focusing on what the American people expect of the attorney general of the United States and this great Department of Justice." In addition to the controversy over fired prosecutors, lawmakers of both parties have long complained that Gonzales allowed Justice to violate civil liberties on a host of other issues - such as by carrying out Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. One veteran Republican said Gonzales had used up all his political capital in the Senate. "There is no confidence in the attorney general on this side of the aisle," said Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Specter voted to move the resolution forward, but he said many of his GOP colleagues would not because they feared political retribution. Democrats said it was only fair to put senators on record for or against Gonzales, particularly since five GOP senators have called for the attorney general's resignation and many more have said they have lost confidence in him. "If senators cast their vote with their conscience, they would speak with near unanimity that there is no confidence in the attorney general," said the resolution's author, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "Their united voice would undoubtedly dislodge the attorney general from the post that he should no longer hold." Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said it was inappropriate for the Senate to hold forth on a member of the president's Cabinet. "This is a nonbinding, irrelevant resolution proving what? Nothing," Lott said. "Maybe we should be considering a vote of no confidence on the Senate or on the Congress for malfunction and an inability to produce anything."