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Standing By His Man
Another GOP senator, Minnesota’s Norm Coleman, is calling for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
GOP Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is predicting Gonzales will resign.
Not gonna happen, says the White House.
Spokesman Tony Fratto, acknowledging this has been “a difficult period” for Gonzales, said “the attorney general is sticking to his job” and has President Bush’s full support.
And Fratto is not impressed with Democratic leaders plan to push for a no-confidence vote to signal Senate support for Gonzales’ ouster.
“It adds up to the bottomless bag of tricks Democrats in the Senate like to pull out on a weekly basis regarding the attorney general,” Fratto told reporters.
And what if the Senate actually approved a no-confidence motion?
“We would consider it to be just another political stunt,” Fratto said.
Isn’t it important for an attorney general to have the confidence of the confirming chamber of Congress?
“It’s important for any public official to have as much confidence as he can garner and that’s going to ebb and flow,” Fratto said. “But it’s not going to ebb and flow with this president and this attorney general.”
Of the decreasing GOP support for Gonzales, Fratto said, “We understand there are senators who have different views.”
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