A Crock of Shit, by Any Other Name, Would Smell as Foul
November 1, 2007
Bush Moves to Save Mukasey Nomination
By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — President Bush went on the offensive today to salvage the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey to be attorney general, declaring that Mr. Mukasey is being mistreated by some senators and that his service is urgently needed while the nation is “at war.”
“Judge Mukasey is not being treated fairly,” the president said, after taking the extraordinary step of inviting a group of reporters into the Oval Office to vent his feelings. Sitting behind his desk and leaning back in his chair, Mr. Bush said he was concerned that some people may have “lost sight of the fact that we’re at war.”
. . . “It is time to get his nomination to the floor so the Senate can vote him up or down,” Mr. Bush said. Democrats have a 10-to-9 advantage on the judiciary committee, and in the event that a party-line vote goes against the nominee it is by no means certain that Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majorit…