by Bill Scher | Apr 23, 2007 | Blog
None of the Sunday shows hosts posed our Weekend Watchdog questions drilling down to the heart of the Prosecutor Purge matter -- how names actually got on the purge list. But guests Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., worked in answers that kept the...
by Bill Scher | Apr 20, 2007 | Blog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
by Bill Scher | Apr 19, 2007 | Blog
Video highlights of today's Senate hearing with Attorney General Gonzales is up at PoliticsTV and TPMmuckaker. Thorough liveblogging is up at Firedoglake and The Gun Toting Liberal. McJoan at DailyKos says Gonzales "decided that claiming incompetence is the way to...
by Bill Scher | Apr 19, 2007 | Blog
As noted below, several Republican Senators have been not willing to provide political cover for Gonzales. And this afternoon, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., called for Gonzales' resignation at the end of his questioning. Further, CNN White House reporter Suzanne Malveaux...
by Bill Scher | Apr 19, 2007 | Blog
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., nailed Gonzales with a basic disconnect in his story, telling him, "You can't really say with certainty" that no one was purged for "improper reasons" if "you didn't know then, and you don't know today, how each of these people actually...
