WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michael Mukasey drew closer to becoming attorney general Friday after two key Senate Democrats said they would vote for him despite his refusal to say whether waterboarding is torture.
The decision by Sens. Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein to back President Bush's nominee came shortly after the chairman of the committee, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced he would vote against Mukasey, a former federal judge.
(AP)
This guy Mukasey has made it clear - crystal clear, as we say on Talk Like a Dork Day - he is not willing to stand up to Bush. So what's the point of having him as AG and, more to the point, what's the point of having Dems who will agree to that? The worst thing about this interminably long presidential campaign is that it's too short to allow for forming a viable third party. Or try, at least - the way the political deck is stacked it may be impossible to form a third party anyway. But if things play out the way the cards lie today we're going to wind up in '09 with Bush Lite. Again.
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