{"id":10842,"date":"2007-05-18T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10842.html"},"modified":"2007-05-18T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T19:00:44","slug":"confidence-schmofidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/confidence-schmofidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence, schmonfidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning’s White House press gaggle, hosted by Bush spokesperson Tony Fratto, was genuinely amusing. I realize bringing in a third-string press secretary is no way to get the White House’s A game, but this was just silly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Q: Senators Schumer and Feinstein are going to introduce a no confidence resolution for Attorney General Gonzales next week, the Senate is going to vote on this. You have a sixth Republican, Norm Coleman, come out and say the Attorney General should resign. Doesn’t this all add up to the weight that’s dragging him down? And how can he be effective with all —<\/p>\n

FRATTO: I think it adds up to the bottomless bag of tricks that Democrats in the Senate would like to pull out on a weekly basis, regarding the Attorney General. The Attorney General has the full confidence of the President….<\/p>\n

Q: You addressed the Democratic part of that question. You didn’t say anything about the six Republicans. And you also had Specter saying that he predicts that he’ll resign — Gonzales will resign, saying that he’s unable to perform his duties. What about the Republicans?<\/p>\n

FRATTO: We understand that there are senators who have different views.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Democrats want Gonzales gone, they’re playing games. When Republicans want him gone, they’re holding “different views.” It led to this gem:<\/p>\n

Q: Would the White House consider a vote of no confidence to have any procedural impact at all, or would you consider it an empty political stunt?<\/p>\n

FRATTO: I think we would consider it to be just another political stunt.<\/p>\n

Q: Is it not important for the Attorney General to have the confidence of Congress?<\/p>\n

FRATTO: It’s important for any public official to have as much confidence as he can garner. And that’s going to ebb and flow, but it will not ebb and flow with this President and this Attorney General.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think they’re going to have to impeach him. The White House made a right turn at Crazy Town and are headed for Madness City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning’s White House press gaggle, hosted by Bush spokesperson Tony Fratto, was genuinely amusing. I realize bringing in a third-string press secretary is no way to get the White House’s A game, but this was just silly. Q: Senators Schumer and Feinstein are going to introduce a no confidence resolution for Attorney General Gonzales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}