Conservatives May Target Schumer As Retribution For No-Confidence Vote

[KoKo]

(So the Repugs will make Schumer the issue and not Gonzo.... So, what was the point of calling the vote if we are going to go down and media reports "FOOD FIGHT...FOOD FIGHT! :shrug:)


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Conservatives May Target Schumer As Retribution For No-Confidence Vote

To counter the fallout of an Alberto Gonzales no-confidence vote, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has repeatedly said he will bring an alternative resolution to the floor. Today, Roll Call previews what that alternative, targeting Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), may look like:

“He may get a dose of his own medicine,” said Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.), adding, “Schumer is clearly way out of order. … This isn’t going to be free.”

One Senate Republican source explained that such a resolution would not name Schumer directly, but instead instruct the Senate to vote on whether a Senator who runs a campaign committee should be “using his political capacity to run the show” on an investigation such as the U.S. attorneys scandal. Schumer is the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

“My sense is, we’re going to let them get cloture, and we’re going to talk about it,” the source said. “We have more dirt to throw at them than they have at us.”

This line of attack — that Schumer has a “conflict of interest” because he is investigating the U.S. attorney scandal while also serving as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee — was first raised three months ago by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA). It’s a complete distraction.

Schumer has no conflict of interest. The investigations led by the Senate and House Judiciary Committees are focused exclusively on the Executive Branch and not on Congress. Potential investigations into improper behavior by members of Congress would be conducted by the respective congressional ethics committees, as they should be.

http://thinkprogress.org/

[Mend]

1. gee Trent, why don't you strap on your codpiece and "bring it on"...we are

all quaking in our boots.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Great to know that my Senator (lott) truly loves the current attorney general

And the hateful, arrogant republicans remain on message - target, vindication, attack anyone who tells the truth and wants the light to hit the cockroaches which comprise the gop.

lott you remain an incredible embarrassment.

[Acadia Blue]

8. I can't stand Trent or Haley Barbour or Bobby Jindal or Vitter.

[BOSSHOG]

9. Ya mean little shit (I'm not a career politician) bobby jindal

who has been in politics all his life? The little shit who got his ass spanked by Kathleen Blanco who was planning to run AGAINST Blanco for Governor this next time around, except Blanco chose not to run now little shit has to run FOR something? That lil shit? Yes, who serves Louisiana the least bobby or david? I was truly amazed after Katrina how those two clowns dug deep and found their kind liberal hearts wantin to help everybody. So sweet.

[Nite Owl]

3. Schumer?

Yeah, he's really vulnerable in NY.


:rofl:

[pwb]

4. Schumer is smarter than all red state neocons combined

[Hand]

5. Trent's wearing his helmet too tight again.

:rofl:

[bumblebee1]

6. Maybe poor Trent has breathed too much hairspray. n/t

[Buck Laser]

7. If they can't take a joke, fuck 'em! nt