{"id":755,"date":"2005-02-04T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=755"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T17:43:00","slug":"alberto-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/02\/04\/alberto-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberto Gonzalez"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Baucus and Burns<\/a>, I’m guessing, were somewhere in the vicintity of George W Bush’s Montana Social Security Ho-down. (Baucus doing his own counter-programming, so to speak, in battle with Bush.)<\/p>\n

Part of the tour, where the selected get to congregate<\/a> and discuss the issues.<\/p>\n

Anyway. I was wrong. Biden voted against confirmation of Alberto Gozalez. Despite his considered opinion that “I like you. You’re the real deal.”<\/p>\n

Weeks ago, I was going to list the Senators that voted “no”… but there’s 36 of them, so instead I’ll point out the Democrats who voted “yes”…<\/p>\n

Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
\nJoseph Lieberman (D-CT)<\/a>
\nBill Nelson (D-FL)
\nBen Nelson (D-NE)
\nMark Pryor (D-AR)
\nKen Salazar (D-CO)<\/p>\n

It is what it is. Some Senators (13 apparently) think Condelleza ought not be confirmed. I’d have voted yes… Evan Bayh, curiously enough, thought it important to vote “no” — (He is in the Lieberman-esque Corner of having to figure out how to convince a Democratic Electorate that he is a “Democrat” as he seeks the Democratic Nomination in 2008.) I would’ve said “yes”. Some Senators think that Gonzalez shouldn’t be confirmed. You draw the line somewhere, and where that line is drawn is up to each person of conscience. I assume these six are content with Torture, and are waiting for Canibalism to draw that line.<\/p>\n

“I expect he’ll be almost as good as Reno and Ashcroft.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baucus and Burns, I’m guessing, were somewhere in the vicintity of George W Bush’s Montana Social Security Ho-down. (Baucus doing his own counter-programming, so to speak, in battle with Bush.) Part of the tour, where the selected get to congregate and discuss the issues. Anyway. I was wrong. Biden voted against confirmation of Alberto Gozalez. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}