Deputy AG Nominee Held By GOPers as Conservative Activists Plot Strategy

[babylonsister]

So now Family Research Council is speaking for the GOP? Can't anyone in the GOP speak for themselves?

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Deputy AG Nominee Held By GOPers as Conservative Activists Plot Strategy
By Elana Schor - March 5, 2009, 11:58AM


Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) confirmed today that Republicans are holding up approval of David Ogden, President Obama's nominee to be deputy attorney general. From Leahy's remarks in the committee this morning:

Despite the strong support from law enforcement groups, children's advocates, civil rights organizations and former Democratic and Republican officials, and despite this Committee's bipartisan vote, Republican Senators have now chosen to filibuster the second of President Obama's nominations reported by this Committee. This is not a good start.

Ogden did win approval in committee, as Leahy notes, from senior Judiciary GOPer Arlen Specter (PA) as well as Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). But we know who doesn't like him: the right.

Family Research Council fellow Cathy Ruse, in a recent op-ed for CNSNews.com, outlined the conservative case against Ogden, focusing on his past defense of abortion providers and the porn industry. Focus on the Family is also mobilizing its members this week to call for Ogden's defeat.

Late Update: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to file for cloture on Ogden's nomination this week, according to Leahy's office -- meaning that Republicans will be challenged to put their money where their mouth is soon enough.

[Supersedeas]

1. but they have no problem with John Yoo

[jaxx]

2. The freaky religious nuts are at it again .

Let them filibuster, let them do it over and over until the people are so sick of them they'll never see daylight again.

Piss on you pubs.

[librechik]

3. see? the only mission is to obstruct. They have nothing else

That's the strategy--they just need to figure out the slowest, most painful and infuriating methods to obstruct in each case. They are truly artists at shooting America in the foot.