Senate Democrats give up on blocking Mukasey nomination

[jgraz]

WANTED: One opposition party. Oh wait, we're in the MAJORITY. :banghead:

Senate Democrats give up on blocking Mukasey nomination

Nick Juliano


UPDATE: Judiciary Committee endorses AG nomination on 11-8 vote

Despite the criticism they have heaped onto President Bush's attorney general nominee over the past few weeks, Democrats appear to lack the gumption necessary to do everything possible to prevent Michael Mukasey from becoming the country's top cop.

Two prominent Democrats on the Judiciary Committee surprised colleagues when they announced support for Mukasey late Friday afternoon. The support from Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Charles Schumer, the New York Democrat who recommended Mukasey early on, virtually assured the success of his nomination.

Mukasey passed out of the committee Tuesday on an 11-8 vote. Feinstein and Schumer were the only Democrats voting with every Republican on the panel in favor of the nominee.

The committee's chairman, Patrick Leahy (D-VT), voted against Mukasey's bid to replace long-embattled Alberto Gonzales. But Leahy encouraged other Democrats on the panel not to request delays in a vote on the nomination, which is scheduled for Tuesday, and he let committee Democrats vote as they please.

“As you know, Sen. Leahy and Sen. Reid have not made this a caucus vote, and as chairman, Sen. Leahy has not twisted any arms,” a Judiciary Committee aide told The Hill.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Senate_Democrats_give_up_on_blocking_1106_af.html

[iconoclastic cat]

1. We need a mass netroots movement to boycott donating to incumbents. nt

[rox63]

8. Even the incumbents that vote the right way?

I think we need to hold on to them.

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Obviously. nt

[rateyes]

2. Courage is a virtue

sadly lacking in Washington D.C.

[movonne]

3. I believe the majority of the dems are in this together...they always

come up with just the numbers to let things go through...just watch and see...it happens every time...

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Yes, yes, yes. It's a show they put on for us to make us think they're going to do the right thing,

but they never do. We're being played.

[blm]

6. Look how they treated every Dem Senator who sticks their neck out on filibusters.

The establishment powerstructure in OUR party is complicit at this point, and has been for way longer than most Dems want to believe.

[fasttense]

4. So we will get a new Torture Czar? We Americans are all shameless tortures now. Thanks bush.

But what is even more fascinating is how quickly the Democratic opposition capitulated to the new Torture Czar. It seems our Democratic opposition party is following in the well worn footsteps of all last legislatures before a soon to be dictator. They are trying to appease him. The German legislature tried to appease Hitler before he took total control. The Italian legislature tried to appease Mussolini. Neither worked, you can not deal with the devil.

[aquart]

7. Thanks, Schumer.

[Truth2Tell]

10. Rec... because

we need to highlight the COMPLICITY.