This from Bloomberg:

A resolution to express “no confidence” in Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush’s embattled attorney general, was blocked by U.S. Senate Republicans who called it a meaningless gesture… Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chided Democrats for “spending our time on a meaningless resolution about giving the president advice about who the attorney general ought to be.”

Apparently Senate Minority Leader McConnell feels that the Senate shouldn’t give advice to the President on who the Attorney General ought to be. He had no problem giving advice to the President about the same subject when he voted to confirm Gonzales two years ago.  Oh, and there is that politically inconvenient Article II Section 2 in the Constitution where the Senate is required to advise the President on his appointments.

Arlen Specter, lead Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, came right out and declared, “There is no doubt in my mind that there is no confidence residing in Attorney General Gonzales.” Senator Specter didn’t need a show of hands to know what the Senate thinks.