Conservatives Target Key Obama Legal Pick Dawn Johnsen As A 'Radical'

[babylonsister]

Man, they SO don't want her to be confirmed. That's why we SO need her!

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/conservative-opposition-to-johnsen-ramps-up.php?ref=fp2


Conservative Opposition To Johnsen Ramps Up
By Brian Beutler - April 23, 2009, 9:48AM


With Congress back in session, and major liberal interest groups throwing throwing their weight behind her, is the conservative campaign to defeat Dawn Johnsen ramping up?

Some signs certainly point in that direction.

Yesterday, The Washington Times--one of the country's leading conservative newspapers--published an op-ed calling her a "radical" and urging Republicans (and, comically, Democrats) to filibuster the President's choice to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.

Also yesterday, McClatchy quoted Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) saying she faces a tough road ahead. "I think she's in real trouble," Voinovich said. "From what I'm picking up from consensus, she's got a problem."

And Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, has sent word out to her members to call their senators and urge them to filibuster Johnsen's confirmation. Some of those callers will enjoy friendly hearings. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) has already vowed to block the nomination of David Hamilton, who Obama selected to fill a vacancy on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

As I reported earlier this week, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)--a key holdout, who's been tacking to the right in the last few weeks--has yet to decide whether he'd support a filibuster, and leadership hasn't yet scheduled a debate and vote on her confirmation on the Senate floor.

[ananda]

1. All the more reason to confirm her!

nt

[CrownPrinceBandar]

2. They need to get Johnsen confirmed ASAP.........

the JD needs a "radical" like her. Her great qualifications aside, I would love to see her confirmed because she is obviously scaring the shit out of some prominent republicans, which can't be bad.

[Winterblues]

3. When is the next recess? I guess it might take a few recess appointments

just to get some business accomplished..

[gratuitous]

4. Upper down vote . . . will of the people . . . et cetera

Hammer them with their own words, and point out that they were acting awfully arrogant and peremptory when they had a 51-49 majority in the Senate. Take a look, boys; it's 58-41 and will soon be 59 in the Senate. And after 2010, it could be 62 or more against you. Think real hard about it if you're still trying to pander to the backwash 23%, soon to dwindle to 15% or less.