Monday, June 11, 2007

The No-Confidence-in-Gonzales Vote   [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."  (That leaves open the question of how many Republicans will, in the end, go along with Democrats.)  In addition, the source questions whether Democrats really want to go ahead with the matter at all.  The source points out that after the immigration standoff, "Harry Reid said…we need to get on to important issues — and then turned around and basically gave us a four-day weekend followed by a vote on Gonzales.  Democrats don't want to win this one; it would mean another week spent doing nothing."

06/11 02:21 PMShare