More like this:
After President Bush backed his beleaguered Attorney General again on Thursday, Democratic Senators on the Judiciary Committee announced that they would be scheduling a “no-confidence” vote on Alberto Gonzales in mid-June.
“It is the sense of the Senate that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people,” the measure sponsored by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reads.
At a Thursday press conference, Schumer said, “I think we hoped that it would never come to this. We would have liked the attorney general to have stepped down on his own. But the rule of law has been trampled. Confidence in the Department of Justice has been shattered, and leadership is virtually nonexistent. It’s one of the most important agencies our government has. The rule of law is what our democracy is all about. And when people lose their ultimate faith in those, something has to change, and it is our obligation to do everything we can to bring that change about.”
Schumer thinks they might have 60 votes. Why not 90?
