For and Against a Meaningless Vote
Published by BG on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 6:39 AM.War Room - Salon.com
Although Republican Sen. Arlen Specter said earlier today that there is "no confidence in the attorney general on this side of the aisle," Senate Republicans largely held together this afternoon in blocking an up-or-down vote on a resolution expressing the Senate's lack of confidence Alberto Gonzales.
Hooray! No one wins! Not that anyone would have anyway, with a virtually meaningless resolution on the table that the President was going to ignore anyway. That being said, the Republicans who moved to block the vote had to have their stomachs churning with this move. Gonzo's inept, and I think everyone gets that, but a vote that essentially supports the administration's (enjoy your "no no, that's not what we meant" spin) backing of this guy wasn't really what they wanted to do.
Whatever. Democrats got their week of news stories on the move to bring the meaningless vote, Republicans can now be accused of supporting the politicization of the DOJ under bumbling leadership*, and we all go back to work on something more important.
*The left will make a point of hammering the right on this point if they're smart. That being said, this is the left we're talking about...
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