Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)
By on Jun 11th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)
will vote for the no-confidence resolution on Alberto Gonzales. Specter is the top ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
UPDATE: National Review’s Byron York:
The Republican leadership in the Senate is confident it can win a planned preliminary vote on a resolution expressing no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. A vote is scheduled later today on a Democratic attempt to end debate and move on to a vote on the resolution. That would require 60 votes, of course, and a GOP source says, “I don’t think [Democrats] are going to get 10 Republican senators to join them.”
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June 11th, 2007 at 2:23 pmBush leaves Europe for trouble back home
YES YES YES YES YES ,,,,,,,,, please take his passport away from him
June 11th, 2007 at 2:26 pmBush leaves Europe for trouble back home
YES YES YES YES YES ,,,,,,,,, please take his passport away from him
Comment by Tobey Tall
“I’m sorry, Mr. President but Air Force One appears to have a flat tire. Again.”
June 11th, 2007 at 2:27 pmand specter’s staff is responsible for inserting the provision into the patriot act that allowed bush to bypass the confirmation process for u.s. attorneys. but you won’t hear his senate colleagues or media pals talking about that aspect of his role in this entire grotesque subversion.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pmNo matter what the result, nothing will change and the US inches closer each day to agonizing self destruction.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pmBush leaves Europe for trouble back home
Uh, can we change the locks while he’s out of the country?
June 11th, 2007 at 2:31 pmNo matter what the result, nothing will change and the US inches closer each day to agonizing self destruction.
Comment by freedomrings
Jeebus, get your head out of the oven. We survived Nixon, we survived Ronnie, and the republic will survive Bush. It isn’t pretty and it certainly will take a long time to lose the scars but not if progressives just give up.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:33 pmmaybe Air Farce One can make a detour to Gitmo and drop Chimpy off…
June 11th, 2007 at 2:34 pmNothings gonna happen to gonzo because the dems are to weak to stand up to his boss.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:35 pmI would have to agree with Lano,
The Dems have been very disappointing, and prove how they are in the same corporate brothel as the Repukes.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:40 pmI’ll believe it when I see it.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:41 pmWith the vote looming, here are:
“The Top 10 Reasons to Vote No-Confidence in Gonzales.”
For the latest news, document dumps, email archives, hearing transcripts and other essential materials in the firings of U.S. attorneys, see:
June 11th, 2007 at 2:44 pm“The U.S. Attorney Scandal Resource Center.”
So the GOP will in effect be showing support for an incompetent and compromised AG? That’s great.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:47 pmAll this is much ado about nothing – a no confidence vote? What does that accomplish, other than more distraction from the fact that BushCo is setting up America for a permanent presence in Iraq, and that our new chairman of the joint chiefs is even MORE hawkish than Pace.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:47 pmi’m with #11… i’ll believe it when i see it…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
June 11th, 2007 at 2:47 pmArlen Specter will vote NeoCon every single time. Sh!t, he made up the magic bullet theory.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:49 pmI hope he is right. It will show everyone just how the gop feel about the rule of law. if watergate didn’t convince you they were in the business of crime. many of the people of this country think they get what they pay for, so bribery is common.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pmWhat? Doesn’t Gonzales deserve an up or down vote???
June 11th, 2007 at 2:57 pm/end sarc/
Arlen Specter — all bark, no
June 11th, 2007 at 2:59 pmbackbonebiteThe rethuglicans have proven to be more for the party, the fascist regime of Cheney and KKKarl Rove, than for the constitution they swore to uphold and defend. The have done nothing for the country for the past twelve years and they are determined to do nothing positive before they are ousted in ‘08. All this leads to a good thing, the Rethuglican Party is creating their own demise and they will soon be a party of the past. Americans are dying a war that they are responsible for and they want to deny that Gonzo is a political hack who should never have been put into the position he is in. Rethugs are plain old thugs who are supporters of the crime family…not the USA.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:00 pmFor you whiney Democrats, it still takes 60 votes in the Senate…the Dems do not have a majority that large ane the thugs are still marching in lock step with the crime family. We must get these do nothing rubbernecked thugs out of DC to change things.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:06 pmIf the republicans do “their peoples work” they will vote with the democrats on this .
June 11th, 2007 at 3:10 pmHmmm… so the Senate Republicans are no longer for the principle of “an up-or-down vote” huh?
Sounds kind of “obstructionist” to me.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:16 pmI don’t care about 60 votes. We need to continue to force the Republicans to vote and go on the record. The more instances the better.
Passing legislation means little while the President is busy with signing statements.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:17 pmRepublicans… Party before country…
at least they are consistent.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:21 pmRepublicans… Party before country…
Bushco…Profit before People…
June 11th, 2007 at 3:28 pm#24, Peter, you’re absolutely right.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:02 pmIn 2008, 21 Senate Republicans will need to run for re-election. What we need to start doing now is to get Progressive Democrats to run for these Republican seats. We need more “Jim Webb’s” to run in 2008.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:10 pmit is apparant the Senators do not support the people of the United States of America
June 11th, 2007 at 4:10 pmSpectre talks populous, but when it comes to stuff that really matters he’ll vote party line. Yeah sure, a non-binding NC vote is right up his dark alley.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:22 pm#28- Amen.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:25 pmGood. Get the bastards on record.
Candidate X knew that Gonzales had done A, B, and C, and still voted for him. Is that the kind of person you want representing you in Washington?
June 11th, 2007 at 4:25 pmThis is what I don’t get: in the most recent Newsweek there is a sidebar interview with Newt Gingrich. He lambasts Bush as incompetent and says the GOP is “exhuasted” from having to defend Bush. If they feel that way, then why do they keep supporting this pathetic man with only a 28% approval rating?! What are they afraid of?
June 11th, 2007 at 4:41 pmBoy George says
“They can have their votes of no-confidence but it’s not going to make the determination about who serves in my government,” Chimpy said Monday.
Dufus thinks this is HIS government…like he owns it. What a moron.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:51 pmSo, I take it you are a whiny Democrat?
June 11th, 2007 at 4:58 pmSpecter is such an f’n fraud.
June 11th, 2007 at 5:07 pm#35. I am not whining but I am a democrat…ever since Dubya the drunken AWOL coward was appointed to the highest position in the land. Before that I had never been associated with either party and considered myself un-affiliated. Today, I want to save the nation from the rubbernecked morons, the knuckle dragging troglodytes in the GOP.
All I was saying is that to think the Democratic Party can force feed legislation with a simple majority, is foolish. The Republicans will need to see that they stand to lose their positions in the Senate and then they will start marching on the Democratic aisle to save their asses.
June 11th, 2007 at 5:42 pmQuestion is the Rubber Stamp Republicans still alive?
June 11th, 2007 at 6:03 pmFailure to achieve cloture would appear to push forward a case for bringing impeachment charges in the House to force a Senate trial.
June 11th, 2007 at 6:39 pmDoc Rock:
Using that logic, if the House fails to pass a bill of impeachment, that should force the Supreme Court to do something mean to Gonzales.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:50 pm