Lieberman, Schumer Will Introduce Mukasey (Wednesday confirmation hearing)

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

Former U.S. District Court judge and attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey's Wednesday confirmation hearing is expected to be one of the most bipartisan nominations of the entire Bush administration. Democrats are already signaling that confirmation is likely.

The current plan calls for Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the top Republican on the panel, to meet Mukasey beforehand in the Capitol and walk him into the committee room together for the 10 a.m. hearing.

There, before the cameras, Mukasey is going to be introduced to the committee by a pair of senators who have played leading roles in recent national Democratic campaigns: Joe Lieberman (Conn.), the 2000 vice-presidential nominee who won re-election to the Senate as an independent last year, and Charles Schumer (N.Y.), who as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee helped toss Republicans out of power.

Leahy told Capitol Briefing the atmospherics surrounding the Mukasey confirmation were "tripartisan".

"I expect him to be confirmed," Leahy said after a roughly 40-minute meeting with Mukasey today, adding, "He will be light years better than his predecessor."



Read more: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/10/lieberman_schumer_to_intro_muk.html

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Fuck us.

Hey remember when this appointment was going to be leveraged for compliance on all of those subpoenas? Remember that? Wasn't that great?

Oh, and

FUCK YOU JOE LIEBERMAN YOU GO FUCK OFF NOW

[Tesha]

2. I remember that. Patrick Leahy's stock has greatly fallen in my eyes. (NT)