Republican Critics of Gonzales Not Assuaged by Bush

[sabra]

Source: Bloomberg

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Republican critics of Alberto Gonzales, unmoved by President George W. Bush's endorsement of his Justice Department leadership, said the attorney general faces an uphill fight to restore confidence among lawmakers.

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``He has a lot of damage to repair,'' Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told reporters. ``The big question is can he repair the damage. With some senators no, with some senators maybe.''

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Bush and Gonzales ``need to wrestle with that very seriously because the Department of Justice should come first,'' said Sessions, who last week urged Gonzales to consider leaving office if he didn't think he could serve effectively.

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In another development, New York Senator Charles E. Schumer, the Democrat leading the Senate's inquiry, said his party is weighing a vote of no confidence on Gonzales's leadership.

Gonzales ``has lost the confidence of key Democrats as well as key Republicans,'' said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat.


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[StarryNite]

1. Good for them!

:applause:

[MasonJar]

2. Didn't Bush say that Gonzo did a good job, but that he didn't watcg the hearing?

If so, that would certainly be W stepping right along in his normal, incompetent sociopathic manner.

[rodeodance]

3. now now--he had updates (like he did with Katrina)!!

[yellowcanine]

4. a recorded "no-confidence" vote would be great. How many pubs would vote for it and how many would

abstain? My guess is that Specter man would chicken out and abstain.