No conservative leader supports Al Gonzales, and those who say they do are not telling the truth but are afraid of losing White House access, or promised help with fund raising.
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After meeting with Gonzales on Capitol Hill earlier this month, Leahy told reporters that the nominee was a more uniting figure ... has a far better chance of confirmation with substantial votes from both sides of the aisle than a divisive candidate.
Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.
Gonzales is really the only candidate who satisfies each and every one of the president's substantive criteria.
I don't think among the favored categories of gender and ethnicity, beyond Al Gonzales, the president has an obvious choice.
It is hard to think, as I sit here, of examples of decisions that appear to be Gonzales making decisions on his own, as opposed to his status of defender of the administration and the White House. His role doesn't seem that much different than his role serving as White House counsel, only now he has a much larger staff.
Judge Gonzales would be the obvious choice for this next pick, but for the opposition of conservative groups.
I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.
That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
Rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General (Alberto) Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.
In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Biden referred to the escape of Dwayne Fitzen, a drug dealer who had been in the transfer program, but fled and is now considered armed and dangerous ... comprehend the rationale for this program.
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
We opposed Alberto Gonzales when he was nominated to be attorney general. We believe that his tenure both as counsel to President Bush and (former) Gov. Bush demonstrated a cavalier attitude towards the rule of law. We continue to have serious concerns regarding a Gonzales nomination.
It's awfully hard to read the tea leaves this time. But the harder I've thought about this, the more I come back to Judge Gonzales as the most likely choice. I'm not terribly confident in that prediction but it's the one I've decided I'm making.
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.