No-confidence vote on Gonzales fails

Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007 6:32 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: White House, Congress

From NBC's Ken Strickland
The no-confidence vote on Alberto Gonzales failed, 53-38. Sixty votes were needed for the motion to proceed. Senator Stevens (R) voted present.

The following seven Republicans voted with ALL Democrats in the symbolic no-confidence vote: Collins, Coleman, Smith, Specter, Hagel, Snowe, and Sununu. (Collins, Coleman, Smith, Hagel, and Sununu are all up Senate re-election in 2008.)

Lieberman voted against the resolution with most of the Republicans.

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"I find it amusing that the republicans called this a meaningless vote as it is a 'sense of the Senate' resolution. However, when the Repub;ican led House , in the fall of 2006, passed a "Sense of the House" resolution that global warming did not exist, no republican said that was a waste of time.
Desmond (Sent Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:26 AM)

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First I've heard of this, please elaborate.

Personally since the figures on isotope concentrations in meteorites with known touch down show that increased solar activity exactly matches supposed increases in Global averages, and since ice core data show that if present CO2 levels were a significant contributory factor temperatures would have to be much higher than they are, I'd have to say that the Kyoto protocol supporters are substituting corelation for causation.

But not to worry, as Canadian ice fields retreat more land will become available to house the mass exodus of Democrats after they wake up to a new and more vigorous Republican Administration in November of 2008.

Actually if temperatures do increase slightly this will free up the North west passage again and cut tremendously the dependence on heating oil.
Passive Ammonia based air cooling and heat exchange systems are very well suited to handle the expected temperature ranges.
Home heating and cooling will become cheaper and safer, also more environmentally sound.
Food production in Canada and Europe as well as Russia and the United States will increase enormously fueld by CO2 levels which have already increased Biomass worldwide.
Increased Biomass can be put to use in alternative fuels.

When natural climate variations hand you lemons make lemonade, its more productive than pie in the sky plans to reshape the worlds weather systems. The Soviets already tried that and look how that turned out.
Of course back then the same people now trumpeting Global Warming were claiming we were headed for a new ice age.

Wayne Young, Morristown Tennessee (Sent Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:35 PM)

Well, if you've heard of it, then you know about it. What's to look up?

Desmond (Sent Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:13 PM)

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