From The Hill: “We can’t have a hearing until we get some of the information we subpoenaed,”

[cali]

Leahy reiterated his vow not to hold hearing 'til they get the information they need. Great article with lots of quotes and information.

Senate Republicans on Wednesday fired a warning shot at Democrats on the White House’s still-unnamed attorney general pick as Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared that front-runner Ted Olson would not be confirmed.

The early sparring over the successor to Alberto Gonzales, who cedes power at the Justice Department on Friday, foreshadows a brutal confirmation battle to come. Minutes after Reid declared former solicitor general Olson was too partisan for the job, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) fired a salvo at Democrats who would delay Gonzales’s replacement.

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Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy pointed to the panel’s investigation of controversial testimony in which Olson denied knowledge of the Arkansas Project, a conservative effort to uncover possible misdeeds by then-President Clinton and his wife, now-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

“There was a feeling by many that some of the answers he gave in his last confirmation, answers under oath, were not accurate,” Leahy said.

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But regardless of the nominee, Leahy has vowed not to hold a confirmation hearing until the White House ceases withholding information subpoenaed by Democrats on U.S. attorneys and warrantless surveillance.

“We can’t have a hearing until we get some of the information we subpoenaed,” Leahy reiterated on Wednesday.
Republicans are ready for a fight over those dueling investigations, betting that Democrats will use the attorney general nominee as leverage regardless of who gets the nod.

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/reid-well-defeat-olson-2007-09-13.html


This is gonna be a big fight.

[VP505]

1. "This is gonna be a big fight."

I sure hope so and its about time the Senate Dem,'s grew a pair and stood up to the RePukes with a good dose of their own medicine. They (RePukes) have been obstructing just about every good thing the Dem's have tried to pass so let hell freeze over while they are waiting for a confirmation hearing.

[cali]

2. Oh, I don't think there's any doubt about that

As The Hill says; it's gonna be brutal. Why? Well, I got a theory about that: Transference. The dems are all frustrated as shit about the war, Petraeus testimony, SCHIP, and other bushit. This is where all that frustration is focused. In addition, should bush really nominate Olsen, that's like waving a red flag in front of a very testy bull.

Tempers are frayed down to the last thread in the Senate on both sides of the aisle. And what's more, this is a fight that the dems- and Leahy in particular, are just itching to have.

[bigtree]

3. this is the future

this is the ONLY way to affect the republican obstructionists, by providing our own.

[cali]

4. This is not obstruction.

It's protecting the Constitution.

[bigtree]

5. what's to quibble with what I said?

I'm saying we need to obstruct the republican agenda. Call it what you want. I'm determined to block the republicans and their agenda. I don't think the American people would disagree with that effort at all.

[rocktivity]

6. CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

:woohoo:
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