Posted on 04/09/2010 4:58:44 PM PDT by RobinMasters
We didn’t write much about her but lefty bloggers wrote plenty, and they shall not be pleased to learn that an ardent opponent of Bush’s counterterror apparatus somehow isn’t fit for high-level government work. With Justice Stevens and Stupak owning the weekend headlines, the timing for the White House was finally right:
Ms. Johnsen, an Indiana University professor, was a strident critic of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies and the legal theories used to create them.
Those views and her past work for a group that supports abortion rights led stiff opposition from Republicans and some Democrats. The opponents made sure she never got a final Senate confirmation vote, although she was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee…
Ms. Johnsen was nominated in early 2009 and quickly became a top target of conservative opposition. President Barack Obama renominated her earlier this year. But an early indication of her fate came last month when the president issued recess appointments for 15 nominees to circumvent Senate opposition, and Ms. Johnsen wasn’t among them.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Ping
“Unexpected?”
Ms. Johnsen has a skeleton in her closet. We may or may not discover it in the next day or two.
If Johnsen is the one I remember from about 15 or so years ago, she was a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood or possibly NARAL and, while that certainly seems uncontroversial to pro-abort Democrats, it wouldn’t shock me at all if she said some highly objectionable things in her tenure in that capacity that would be difficult for many senators to justify - things that would make the “wise Latina” comment seem sane by comparison.
If she’s the one I’m thinking of, she was actually quite a looker back then (surprising when contrasted with most ardent feminists) but she was a total turn-off as soon as she opened her most and displayed her unrelenting hate for the unborn.
What's up?
They announced the appointmet thinking the Republicans were going to be unorganized and is disarray. They wrere not, They had her on the ropes within 3 hours on here public comment record.
She resigned to stop their inquiry investigation. This one is bad. .. She has something that is very nasty IMHO. The dems always withdraw when they have a nasty glitch. The Republicans should lay on and REALLY find the dirt on her and ruin her forever.
WRONG!! Google Dawn Johnsen, whoa, definitely guilty.
Yeah, that's her but this photo is recent and I'm talking about how she looked in the early 90s when her hair was longer and blond and her overbite wasn't as pronounced.
Yeah, she's the one I remember.
Compared to Molly Yard, Bella Abzug, Kate Michaelman, et al, she was by far the most pleasant on the eyes of all the pro-aborts. Take this photo and turn back the clock 15 years and maybe you'll see what I mean. Or maybe you won't.
In another thread, it quotes her as comparing pregnancy to slavery. I suspect that’s the one few senators are going to stick their necks out and defend. For one, it’s a huge insult to African-Americans, many of whom are pro-life even though they vote in lockstep with Democrats.
Must be Friday.
This is part of what snagged her:
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In 2006 at the ACS, Johansen all but said that the left needed to gain political power to effectuate their adgenda(sic):
“The other thing we haven’t talked about very much is that in the meantime, before we achieve that kind of political power, we need to be working on developing what it is we think the vision of the country should be. We need our own well-developed progressive vision of the whole range of constitutional issues.
We have much of that work done, and I think a lot of the building blocks are here, but I do think we have more work to do through organizations like — Nan [Aron] has been working on this for decades. When I was at NARAL [the abortion rights group] back in the 80s, we worked together on some of these issues. But I think now in the 21st century, now we have the Center for American Progress, American Constitution Society, other organizations, more money I think coming in, so that we are thinking about these issues in a more deliberate way.
And you have to be prepared for political power with the ideas, and conservatives have, I think, had a leg up on us for the last several decades on that score.”
Now this is fine to state your professed goals and to recognize that you need political power to effectuate them. But then in light of what you’ve said, don’t then expect those who disagree with your views to not question whether you would be partisan if you were given political power.
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