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Reid Says Gonzales Okay For SCOTUS

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Supreme Court

Is Senate Minority leader Harry Reid playing politics or being genuine? Only time will tell.

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday pronounced Attorney General Alberto Gonzales qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, but added, “I don’t know if he’d have an easy way through” Senate confirmation.Reid also chided conservatives for criticizing Gonzales while Bush was overseas. “I think it’s too bad the president has to respond in Denmark about statements from the far right,” he said. “People here have gone a little too far.”

So, he scolds conservatives for being critical of Gonzales. How very odd.

Again, I wonder if this is genuine. I certinaly hope it is. That would send a clear signal to the other Dems in Washington that it’s high time to realize that if the Repubs stick together, there’s no need for the Dems in the nomination process.

Could this possibly be Reid extending the olive branch to the other side so they’ll consider a more moderate nominee?

BY THE WAY
This is what Reid was talking about.

Social conservatives moved quickly after Friday’s announcement of a Supreme Court opening, vocally criticizing Mr. Gonzales as an unknown on hot-button cultural issues — such as affirmative action and separation of church and state — important to them and perhaps insufficiently opposed to abortion. President Bush himself yesterday rebuked Mr. Gonzales’s detractors and called for an end to the criticism.

Am I really hearing this right? They’re saying Alberto Gonzales isn’t conservative enough? Wow. All of sudden I’m sort of warming to the guy a very little, tiny bit.

I’m still pretty miffed about that whole torture thing.


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One Response to “Reid Says Gonzales Okay For SCOTUS”

  1. Montag Says:
    July 7th, 2005 at 6:58 am

    I’m still pretty miffed about that whole torture thing.

    That might be the understatment of the year. Rallying cry for Gonzales’ opposers: “It’s the torture, stupid.”

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