The number of Republicans calling for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rose to 5 today....and Democrats are calling for a "no confidence" vote.

Democrats proposed two versions of a nonbinding resolution expressing what senators of both parties have said for weeks: that Gonzales has become too weakened to run the Justice Department.

White House response:

"A 'no-confidence' vote is nothing more than a meaningless political act, not that that's stopped them before," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. "The attorney general has the full confidence of the president."

Kelly O'Donnell asked Bush at a press conference today if he sent Gonzales to Ashcroft's hospital room to sign off on the extension of the warrantless NSA wiretapping program. Bush refused to answer. Instead, he said the program was and is necessary.

Update: New York Times article on the resolution here.