McConnell: Only Holder faces confirmation fight (flag)
thehill.com — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Eric Holder, President-elect Obama’s choice to become attorney general, is the only Cabinet nominee who will face a tough confirmation fight. “You know, beyond that, I don’t anticipate trouble for the new president’s nominees,” McConnell said ...
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McConnell Sets Republican Party Senate Priorities: Go After Eric Holder
DownWithTyranny! — ... as his lobbyist pals are demanding-- even though he is likely to lose this time. But with Obama riding extremely high in the public opinion polls, McConnell doesn't want to overplay his hand on obstructing the president's cabinet nominations-- not when virtually the whole country is demanding the Obama Administration get to work cleaning up after Bush and the Republicans immediately. So McConnell has decreed that they will let all but one of Obama's nominee's slide and just concentrate all their vituperative firepower on one: Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. ...

Getting To The Bottom Of Bush Regime Perfidy-- H.R. 104
DownWithTyranny! — ... -- and even viciousness-- with which the most partisan of the GOP Senate caucus is attacking Obama's Attorney General designee, Eric Holder, is to serve notice that they will broker no investigations into the Bush Regime under any circumstances. Miss McConnell has served notice that they will virtually rubber stamp the rest of the nominees and that it is Holder's scalp they will go after. ...

Senator Orrin Hatch supports Eric Holder, not Mitch McConnell
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... On Friday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that Obama’s Attorney General pick, Eric Holder, would be the most likely of the Obamakins to be blocked by the minority. ...

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