{"id":11064,"date":"2007-06-08T16:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T20:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11064.html"},"modified":"2007-06-08T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T20:20:56","slug":"no-confidence-vote-coming-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/no-confidence-vote-coming-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"No-confidence vote coming Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a reason to <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2007\/06\/08\/gonzales-to-face-no-confidence-vote-monday\/\">look forward to Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate will hold a &#8220;no confidence&#8221; vote on embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this Monday, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Friday, Schumer said if all senators followed their conscience, &#8220;this vote would be unanimous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the president will certainly exert pressure to support the attorney general, his longtime friend,&#8221; Schumer added. &#8220;We will soon see where people&#8217;s loyalties lie.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep in mind, a few weeks ago, Arlen Specter predicted that Gonzales would resign before a no-confidence resolution passed. &#8220;I think that if and when he sees that coming, that he would prefer to avoid that kind of an historical black mark,&#8221; the Pennsylvania senator told CBS&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hunch Specter is wrong &#8212; neither Gonzales nor Bush care much at this point about history, propriety, their legacy, etc. &#8212; but if he&#8217;s right, Gonzales would have to resign over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a reason to look forward to Monday. The Senate will hold a &#8220;no confidence&#8221; vote on embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this Monday, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, announced. In a statement released Friday, Schumer said if all senators followed their conscience, &#8220;this vote would be unanimous.&#8221; &#8220;However, the president will certainly exert pressure [&hellip;]<\/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-11064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064","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=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}