Sen. Harry Reid: "Ted Olson Will Not Be Confirmed"

Reid: "Ted Olson Will Not Be Confirmed"
By Paul Kiel - September 12, 2007, 4:04 PM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004171.php


How much opposition would Ted Olson get if nominated? Well, consider the gauntlet thrown down:

Senate Democrats will block Ted Olson from succeeding Alberto Gonzales as attorney general if President Bush nominates him, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday.

"Ted Olson will not be confirmed," Reid, D-Nev., said in a written statement. "I intend to do everything I can to prevent him from being confirmed as the next attorney general."

Senators vote yes for Olson. Gonzo was a little stooge & a puppet but Olson is an outright Fascist Asshole.

a woman about 3-4 weeks after his wife was zapped on 9-11-01?

That needs to resurface so if they push the sympathy deal.... he may wish to explain how long he knew the woman in the picture...........

have some good qualifications. But I bet none of them have been loyal Bush* supporters.

Can you really see any of these folks voting for him to go to the floor?

Patrick Leahy Chairman, Vermont
Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts
Joseph Biden, Delaware
Herb Kohl, Wisconsin
Dianne Feinstein, California
Russ Feingold, Wisconsin
Chuck Schumer, New York
Richard Durbin, Illinois
Benjamin Cardin, Maryland
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island

In fact, i doubt he'll even get a committee hearing.

Leahy has said repeatedly he has no intention of dropping the gonzo investigation.

Landrieu, the Nelsons, Clinton...

solicitor general...Cheap shot.

Nelson of NE was the only dem who's still in the Senate who voted FOR Olsen, and I believe there was one other. It was a squeaker of a vote. He was barely confirmed. You're right about Clinton, but other than that you couldn't be more wrong.

heck, even Landrieu, Lincoln and others who have frequently voted the Bu4h agenda voted 'nay

Question: On the Nomination (Theodore Bevry Olson, of the District of Columbia, to be Solicitor General


Nomination Description: Theodore Bevry Olson, of the District of Columbia, to be Solicitor General of the United States

Vote Counts:
YEAs 51
NAYs 47
Not Voting 2

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=1&vote=00167


Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---51

Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Campbell (R-CO)
Chafee (R-RI)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeWine (R-OH)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fitzgerald (R-IL)
Frist (R-TN)
Gramm (R-TX)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Helms (R-NC)
Hutchinson (R-AR)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Miller (D-GA)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Nickles (R-OK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-NH)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thompson (R-TN)
Thurmond (R-SC)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

NAYs ---47

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Breaux (D-LA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carnahan (D-MO)
Carper (D-DE)
Cleland (D-GA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Daschle (D-SD)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Edwards (D-NC)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (D-FL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hollings (D-SC)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Torricelli (D-NJ)
Wellstone (D-MN)
Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 2

Jeffords (R-VT)
Rockefeller (D-WV)

Just kidding.

Not really.

lol

its a curse.

It is a curse. It would be nice to be more often. :(

i hope you are wrong, but in my gut i'm pretty sure you are right.

I fear you may be fuckin' Nostradamus, here.

lol! :)

Because that's exactly what I thought too. :(

And the war won't be funded if the Dems take the Senate. Sure. You're so big and strong, Harry, you scare Bush and those Repugs. :scared:

Have your political views, but base them on fact please. Nobody ran on defunding the war. Nobody was even suggesting defunding the war until somebody concocted it as a scam to beat up Democrats.

The Dems were not running on a platform of bringing the troops home and ending the war? I must have dreamed it then.

They never said they'd do that. Only a small percentage of the population even support defunding. Democrats ran on Murtha's over the horizon disengagement. The second the Democrats won, Republicans started challenging them to stop funding. And, as usual, the far left took the bait and are helping distract from the real method of ending the war - peeling away those ten Republican senators I listed earlier.

I'll R&K this.

given the dems' track record!

teddt olson..why doesn't Reid like him for ag?

Probably not a concern, because it won't happen. However, there may be an attempt to derail investigations by creating a false fight.
The big chain hanging around Olson's neck is the illegal activities of the Arkansas Project. SEE:
Bush vs. Gore, the 'Arkansas Project,' the USA firings, and the Swiftboat Admiral
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1029113

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From: FULL STALL JUSTICE: Rep. Jerry Lewis Probe Rolls Backwards "prosecutor ... forced into retirement"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1754656

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Escondido - now serving eight years in prison after admitting he accepted more than $2.4 million in bribes from businessmen seeking federal contracts.

The Cunningham case spurred the ongoing probe of Lewis and his use of earmarks in connection with lobbyists and contractors.

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Debra Wong Yang : The U.S. Attorney, the G.O.P. Congressman and the Timely Job Offer

The U.S. Attorney, the G.O.P. Congressman and the Timely Job Offer
By ADAM COHEN - May 4, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/opinion/04fri4.html?ex=1335931200&en=9697872f8b81f953&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss


There is yet another United States attorney whose abrupt departure from office is raising questions: Debra Wong Yang of Los Angeles. Ms. Yang was not fired, as eight other prosecutors were, but she resigned under circumstances that raise serious questions, starting with whether she was pushed out to disrupt her investigation of one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress.

... the riskiest job in the Bush administration is being a prosecutor investigating a Republican member of Congress. Carol Lam, the United States attorney in San Diego, was fired after she put Randy Cunningham, known as Duke, in prison. Paul Charlton, in Arizona, was dismissed while he was investigating Rick Renzi. Dan Bogden, in Nevada, was fired while he was reportedly investigating Jim Gibbons, a congressman who was elected governor last year.

....

Ms. Yang says she left for personal reasons, but there is growing evidence that the White House was intent on removing her. Kyle Sampson, the Justice Department staff member in charge of the firings, told investigators last month in still-secret testimony that Harriet Miers, .......

The new job that Ms. Yang landed raised more red flags. Press reports say she got a $1.5 million signing bonus to become a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a firm with strong Republican ties. She was hired to be co-leader of the Crisis Management Practice Group with Theodore Olson, who was President Bush’s solicitor general and his Supreme Court lawyer in Bush v. Gore. Gibson, Dunn was defending Mr. Lewis in Ms. Yang’s investigation.

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Yang denies departure is linked to that of other U.S. attorneys
By Susan Crabtree - March 05, 2007
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/yang-denies-departure-is-linked-to-that-of-other-u.s.-attorneys-2007-03-05.html


A former U.S. attorney for Los Angeles, Debra Wong Yang, dismissed questions about the timing of her departure....

Wong Yang was heading up the investigation into Rep. Jerry Lewis’s (R-Calif.) ties to a lobbying firm and the millions of dollars in contracts the firm’s clients received from Congress. Wong Yang, the first Asian-American woman to serve as a U.S. attorney, left her post with Justice to become a partner at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, the law firm representing Lewis. She will co-chair the firm’s crisis-management practice group, along with Washington, D.C., partner Theodore B. Olson, a former Bush administration solicitor general.

Wong Yang said her departure was a personal decision based on financial concerns and the fact that she is a single mother, and had nothing to do with the firings of other U.S. attorneys. She also said her departure would not affect the case against Lewis in any way, ...........

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Yang will co-chair the firm’s crisis-management practice group.... Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas Fuchs, Yang’s colleague at the Los Angeles U.S. attorney’s office, also has joined her at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. Yang and Fuchs have recused themselves from working on Lewis’s defense.

Fuchs did not respond to The Hill’s queries. ....

resumes workin' for buSHITS.

And the buSHITS will find someone worse than gonzales..bet on it. Now, if only the Dems will not let them in.

We have the last 7 years to thank for that one....

:grr:

family values, y'know. :hi:

:hide:

If so, I never heard about it.

Remember Barbara was the only person in the world that mentioned boxcutters.

disappeared in Pennsylvania without a trace? Or the airline that flew into the Pentagon, another mystery.

because that might harm the 'sanctity' of marriage?

i want to feel like Mulder, but i'm almost positive we'll look like charlie brown after lucy pulls that football away one more time.

:hi:

There's only so much cynicism I can take... I'm grasping at every ray of light that comes this way.

Remind me again how that turned out :banghead:

If so, it will be one of the first (if not THE FIRST) truly substantive action they will have actially DENY the Bushies easy passage of something they wanted and NEEDED to get done.

Until this issue is resolved: GO HARRY! GO DEMS! FIGHT THIS TIME!

May this be the time they actually fight to the FINISH and not just for show!

:patriot:

Ted Olson is Alberto Gonzales with a brain.

He must not be the AG!

TC

Olsen will now be nominated.

They aren't failed leaders for nothing, though.

is this just still speculation?

He's a nasty one. I hope Reid sticks to his guns this time.

and all the actual corruption investigations.

Which makes me wonder, why did I post this? :rofl:

Did I spell the pseudo-attorney's name right?

Whereby they float the name of someone they know will go down in flames, and then produce a wolf in sheeps clothing like Robers.

Would these two scare anyone? :scared:

Olsen's a bad character and would be a disaster as Attorney General--imagine a Gonzales with a brain. The suggestion that the Olsen or anyone in this administration had anything to do with 9/11 has been thoroughly debunked... by New Orleans, Iraq, Afghanistan, the budget, the housing bubble, and of course the current spate of Justice Department scandals.

Olson's in.

is a challenge that Busholini will no back down from. Olson will definitely be the one sent. If Olson does not get the job & that is a big "If", Busholini will make a Olson a recess appointment. Busholini just hates to be opposed.

In his defense...maybe he thinks he has the votes ...then it turns out he doesn't. :shrug:

he gets the vasoline out for the boys.

he's not known for folding. He voted against Olsen for SG because he was too partisan, and had quite the little tiff with Arlen because he wanted more info on the Arkansas Project presented.

The DoJ focus should be on Gonzo's crimes (and those of his minions)! And, the Special Prosecutor. Who will that be? NOT OLSON!!!

resolved. We shall see who has the spine to keep their word.

or the WH just keeps stalling until the clock runs out.

Sometimes Reid needs to be aware of all his options more.

I'd bet 10:1 odds that Bush will appoint him during a Congressional recess.

August break, the psycho wouldn't make recess appointments.

(if he calls that "good")

There’ll be no recess appointments this time around, Roll Call reports (sub. req.), meaning the White House won’t be taking advantage of Congress’ vacation to install any contested nominees. That’s due to a deal between Bush and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). . . . Last recess, the White House made a number of controversial recess appointments, including Swift Boat backer Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium. In order to prevent that sort of thing from happening again, Reid had plotted to keep the Senate in “pro forma” session during the recess — whereby the Senate floor personnel show up every three days to make it an official session. But now Reid and Bush have made a deal, according to Roll Call. Bush won’t make any recess appointments and Reid has promised to move some of his nominees when Senate gets back in session.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/27/3437/

We hear that over the long August vacation, when those types of summer hires are made, Reid will call the Senate into session just long enough to force the prez to send his nominees who need confirmation to the chamber. The talk is he will hold a quickie “pro forma” session every 10 days, tapping a local senator to run the hall. Senate workers and Republicans are miffed, but Reid is proving that he’s the new sheriff in town.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/20/reids-plan-to-block-bushs-recess-appointments/

Please, Reid, follow through!

on the bullshit he spews?

He's such a wuss. He caves in so often I'm surprised he's not constantly surrounded by warning tape and flashing yellow lights.

The only reason Ted Olson isn't AG already is because Reid forced the President to agree to make no recess appointments whatsoever during the August break.

Then Gonzo went ahead and bailed out during the recess, giving the most criminally corrupt President in our nation's history the one chance he'd likely ever have to appoint an equally criminal successor to Alberto Gonzales. All Bush had to do was break his promise to Reid.

And Bush didn't have the balls to do it.

That was all Harry Reid's doing, and you had better fucking know it.

"Politician accidentally does good thing for a change. Film at eleven."

:shrug:

:shrug:

:woohoo::woohoo:

If the nomination doesn't get to the floor.....he can't be confirmed. Don't let it out of the committee!!!!

coming from him, i will sleep well tonite.

If there's anyone who should be blocked, it's Ted.

Kudos to Reid signalling to Ted to FORGET ABOUT IT.

Gee, whiz, why the hell not? :sarcasm: :eyes:

:thumbsup:

It's up to Pat Leahy and perhaps the rest of the dems on the Committee, if, and it's a big if, Leahy allows such a nomination to come up for a hearing. He's in charge of scheduling it,and he reiterated yesterday; no requested/subpoenaed material, no hearing. And all the dems on the committee would vote against Olsen.

Frankly, I think this is a decoy. Someone/something else is in the bushco works.

Given this man's past, hearings are a great opportunity. They should definitely have them and get to the bottom of who Ted Olsen really is. Then they just vote down the nomination in committee and Bush will get the idea that he is going to have to nominate a serious prosecutor intent on enforcing laws while upholding the constitution instead of a rabid right wing attack.

Then tell him who ever he nominates needs to show up with all the missing E-mails they keep refusing to hand over.

...send him a list of unacceptable candidates.

take it to the bank.

And do you realize that when he was up for SG, only Ben Nelson and Zell Miller,out of all the dems, voted for him? His wife dying on 9/11 won't make a spit's worth of difference.

Anyway, Leahy has said repeatedly: No requested/subpoenaed info, no hearing. And he's not one to say something and then go back on it.

Like this gem:
"Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans. "

or this:
"In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
"

...
"From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America."

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barbara_olson.html

Her whole life revolved around her obsession with Bill Clinton.


She was Ted Olson's third wife, BTW, another republican, "family values," hypocrite.

:)

This is very critical. Few men are more dangerous to the law than Ted Olsen (David Brock discusses his history in "Blinded by the Right"). I suggest that interested parties google the name, for he is an architect of Republican policy that I find abhorent.

:sarcasm:

that guy is such a tool!

:banghead:


seems like they never get it, do they? That is what this delusional admin. is all about.

I hope Reid sticks to it.

more evidence this Congress is NWO

Harry is walking a tight rope
the polls shows Americans are psst off at Democratic Congress

their rating would be lower than Bush's if Olsen gets in

He argued Bush's case to Supreme Court for the initial Cabal takeover in the 200 election
where the Supreme Court aided and abetted the stealing of the Election

Harry watch your self here

History will have tales to be told

I have a bridge for you. And this is almost certainly a decoy. bush won't nominate him, though he will nominate someone as bad.

:wtf:

Throw cotton balls at Olson and stomp his feet before he gets confirmed anyway. Shut up Harry. I don't believe anything they say. Spineless wimps. Why don't we figure out how many soldiers have died since we put your lame asses into office last November.

with this bunch of Dem jokers

LoL like your going to stand up for anything, besides a reach around from the so called opposition party.

Can you tell that I've had and heard enough from our elected governing body?

Or Asscraft!

Harry needs to step down....

Why DUers don't know that is a mystery to me. The Judiciary Committee is the body that has the ability to stop this dead, and they will. Leahy has said repeatedly: no requested subpoenaed information, no hearing- whoever the nominee is.

"we'll move on ted olsen when YOU cough up all the papers, emails, staffers, and FORMER staffers who you're willfully withholding. You don't give us these things? Then you can forget about nominating ANYBODY for Attorney General. Make him do a recess appointment. Just gives us yet another talking point.

I SO ARDENTLY BELIEVE that if the Dems started showing some real BACKBONE, it would woo wavering everybodies. It would remove all naysayers' doubts about the Dems having any spine. They have VERY good reason to keep thinking that, though, because so far the Dems have not shown any. And it's a worthy question to ask: if the Dems can't stand up to bush and the republi-CONS, how do we know they can stand up to bin Laden? I think that's all they'd have to do to start moving the numbers toward our side, in droves. Just. Show. Some. GUTS.

Here's a link to a post about a story in "The Hill" where he reiterates it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1795083

I'm just drooling to have hearings on Ted Olson, but first things first.