Posted on 04/09/2010 3:20:21 PM PDT by tcrlaf
President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is withdrawing her nomination amid Republican protests over past statements she made on abortion and national security.
President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is withdrawing her nomination amid Republican protests over past statements she made on abortion and national security.
Dawn Johnsen said she was dropping out of the process because her "nomination has met with lengthy delays and political opposition that threaten" her objective to restore the office to its "best nonpartisan traditions" and "prevent OLC from functioning at full strength."
"I hope that the withdrawal of my nomination will allow this important office to be filled promptly," she said.
A White House spokesman said the president accepted Johnsen's request.
"Her credentials are exemplary and her commitment to the rule of law has been proven time and again, but it is now clear that Senate Republicans will not allow her to be confirmed," White House spokesman Ben Labolt said in a written statement.
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"Senate Republicans will not allow her to be confirmed"
Glenn Beck wins again, doesn't he?
Look for Obama to nominate this “jurist” to the Supreme Court.
Hear this! You Democrats who think you can retire and then get a cushy job in the Obama Regime, THINK AGAIN!
We WILL block you!
Let’s hope the “Republicans” won’t let anyone the bum nominates be confirmed without a good fight!
The delicious irony of it all is that SCOTT BROWN gets to decide who the SCOTUS nominee will be...
That’s for Miguel Estrada and Janice Rogers-Brown.
No
Another radical kicked to the curb!
We will, we will...
block you!
HF
These 0bamunists are all monsters. Every one of them. Monsters.
Exactly. Force 0 to use recess appointments. Especially in the courts.
How is that?
Look, we won a victory. Maybe this means that Obama will be cautious on his next Supreme Court pick.
Hear this! You Democrats who think you can retire and then get a cushy job in the Obama Regime, THINK AGAIN!
We WILL block you!
That’s right.
And Graham and Hatch and all the rest will hear from us too!
To Retired Greyhound:
Agree with your statement. Payback’s a bitch and we are in a real bitchin’ mood. Johnsen was a threat to the survival of the US and her lies about restoring integrity to the OLC is so full of crap that she’s a one-woman fertilizer machine.
There is no integrity in the White House, much of Congress, or the whole Obama administration. There is more integrity in a whorehouse than the White House. At least in a whorehouse, you know that you’re going to get screwed when you pay for the service. With the Obie WH, you didn’t expect to get screwed, out of your country, your insurance, your job, and you actually had to pay for this privilege with your vote. Stupid is as stupid did.
If you are unemployed, thank Obama. I just lost my health insurance thanks to Congress and Obama. I’ll remember the traitors and fools, in November.
The Dmes wear this. The filibuster rule is aboutto be used.
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Repubs better stand up and fight every step of the way...November is a long way off.
Resist! Resist! Resist! ...every one of this usurper’s choices.
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