MEET OBAMA'S "TERRORISTS RIGHTS" ADVOCATE

If President Obama has his way, Attorney General Eric Holder will soon be joined at the Justice Department by another terrorist rights advocate, Dawn Johnsen. Obama has nominated her to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.   Given her opposition to enhanced interrogation of terrorist suspects, she provides yet another example that the Obama administration still views Islamic terrorists as criminal defendants entitled to full constitutional protections in civil trials, not as unlawful enemy combatants.  As if we needed any more evidence!

The New York Times, unsurprisingly, is upset about what its editorial today called ”an unreasonable delay” in getting Dawn Johnsen confirmed:

Majority Leader Harry Reid should do what it takes to get the full Senate to vote promptly and to get her confirmed. A year is far too long for such an important position to go unfilled.

The best way to fill the Office of Legal Counsel position is to withdraw this left-wing ideologue’s nomination and start over.

Johnsen’s ideas verge on insanity.  For example, as director of NARAL (then the National Abortion Rights Action League, since renamed NARAL Pro-Choice America), she equated pregnancy with slavery in a brief filed with the Supreme Court in a landmark abortion case.

Ms. Johnsen was also an ACLU staffer during the late 1980’s, after which she was President Bill Clinton’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General.  Oblivious to the terrorist attacks that occurred during the Clinton administration in which she served, she has since painted George W. Bush as the enemy of our freedoms and has attacked every significant anti-terrorist measure that Bush implemented to keep the country safe after 9/11.

If Johnsen is confirmed, expect more civil trials for captured al Qaeda leaders and operatives.  And expect made-up arguments to twist the Constitution into a charter for enacting what she has called the “progressive agenda,” including “the full range of economic justice issues.”  She is just the sort of progressive radical whom Glenn Beck has been warning about.

With Eric Holder and Dawn Johnsen as leaders at the Department of Justice, terrorist detainees will be tried with all the rights that American citizens possess and will no doubt be entitled to ”economic justice” as well under the “progressive agenda.”

WHY DIG INTO MORE DEBT WHEN YOU CAN SOAR?

I was able to listen in on a bloggers conference call today as two congressmen, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA, Chief Deputy Republican Whip) and Jim Jordan (R-OH, Committee on the Budget Member), discussed today's House vote to increase the debt limit. Congressman McCarthy noted that this was the "largest one-time increase in the debt limit ever," and larger than the GDPs of Ireland, Belgium and Poland... combined.

Regarding the "unprecedented spending, borrowing and tax increases," Congressman Jordan added that the OMB Director, Peter Orszag, admitted to Congressman Campbell the other day that the president's budget is "unsustainable."  McCarthy then bemoaned how this extensive borrowing is threatening our liberty, making us beholden to other countries. He compared this to how the dollar originally became the world currency, when, after WWII, the U.S. declined a request for an interest-free, $5 billion loan to a war-ravaged Britain, choosing instead to loan half that amount with 2 percent interest.

The congressmen also discussed the president's proposed spending freeze. Because it only applies to a small percentage of the budget, Jordan referred to the freeze as "frankly a joke... like ordering four big macs and four large fries and -- oh yeah -- make that a diet coke." McCarthy emphasized the irony that Obama himself has signed spending bills that have increased non-defense discretionary spending a whopping 84 percent.