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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Senate limits Gonzales' hiring authority
Gonzales is toast. Demonstrative of the mood in Congress over the handling of the US Attorney fiasco, the Senate voted 94-2 in favor of a bill that would cancel the attorney general's power to appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation. NINETY FOUR to TWO. I'm sorry, that is not political, that is flat out anger. That is what...virtually every Republican senator voting in favor of the bill?