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Friday, May 22, 2009

Pro-Abortion Lawyer Dawn Johnsen's Nomination Depends On Bipartisan Support.

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By William R. Collier

Jr. Representatives Virginia Foxx (North Carolina) and Eric Cantor (Virginia), both of whom happen to be Republican, spoke out in short speeches on the House Floor about the nomination of Dawn Johnsen for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department.

The controversial nomination of extremely divisive nominees, especially in the area of abortion, by the Obama Administration continues to rely on party loyalty over principles which individuals claimed to hold when they ran for election, including many Democrats who claimed to be in the center or even center-right.

Many amongst the 51% of Americans who call themselves Pro-Life have been monitoring this nomination and are surprised to see that little real bipartisan opposition seems to be emerging. While the partisan support for radical pro-abortionists has enabled President Obama to nominate individuals who are extremely out of sync with moderate Pro-Choice advocates and Pro-Life advocates, who together include over 80% of the population, efforts are being made to bring the record of such nominees out before the public eye.

The nomination of Dawn Johnson has been opposed by The Susan B. Anthony List, which manages and funds Team Sarah, which sent a message in a recent email from SBA to its members as follows:

President Obama has nominated Dawn Johnsen to serve as an Assistant Attorney General to determine what is or isn’t Constitutional. Dawn Johnsen is an extremely divisive figure.

She has worked for the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project. She was the legal director for the National Abortion Rights Action League. She has compared pregnancy to slavery.

She has argued that the government should strip the Catholic Church and other religious denominations of their tax exempt status because of their pro-life advocacy. She believes that a pre-born child has no separate existence apart from the mother.

She has compared pro-life protesters to the Ku Klux Klan. She was heavily involved in the authorship of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would repeal every state and federal restriction on abortion. Johnsen has a long track record of intolerance to positions conflicting with her pro-abortion agenda. Type your name and contact information at the links below, and hit "Enter", to be taken to a page to write your Senators today. Tell them to vote against Dawn Johnsen nomination!

The SBA also provided a link for people to find out how to contact their Senators here:

http://www.sba-list.org/c.ddJBKJNsFqG/b.4179747/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?aid=11949

While some analysts have posited the idea that the Johnson nomination, on the hills of the Sebelius nomination that was passed largely along party lines but with some notable Republican defections, may face a more organized opposition and run into greater trouble, the discipline of the Democratic Party in keeping members in line has been strong, despite their election campaign rhetoric claiming to be in the center or even claiming to be conservatives, as Virginia's Jim Webb did in order to get elected in 2006.

The inability of the opposition to clearly speak with one voice and to get their message to the People directly, past a media filter that increasingly looks to some to be suspiciously similar to the talking points out of the Democratic Party and its front groups, has up until now allowed the Obama administration to fly under the public radar but, increasingly, online activists, including Team Sarah members, are finding their voice and their means of getting that voice out.

The probability is that as more and more voices are raised, each nomination of a radically divisive figure that holds extremist views that are out of sync with the mood and sentiments of the People, increases the risk of a long-term backlash that could bode ill for every Democrat who claimed to have been "moderate" or "centrist" but who voted, rubber stamp style, for whatever the Party asked them to vote for.

http://sarahpalinblog.typepad.com/sarah_palin/2009/05/dawn-johnsens-nomination-depends-on-partisan-support.html

Posted By Cecilia Trent

Friday, May 1, 2009

CDC: 56,000 Dead from Flu...in 2006

From CNSNews.com

Friday, May 01, 2009
By Matt Cover

Posted by Cecilia Trent

(CNSNews.com) – So far this year only one person--a baby visiting from Mexico--has died of swine flu in the United States, but more than 56,000 people died from the flu in the United States in 2006, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In 2005, the flu killed 63,001 people in the United States, according to the CDC. But that year the President of the United States did not use a primetime news conference to admonish the American people that they must wash their hands, and the Vice President did not say he would not want his family to have to ride on a plane or a subway because someone might sneeze near them.

An average of 36,171 people died each year of flu in the United States from 1993 to 2003, according to a recent CDC study.

Despite the recent fervor surrounding swine flu, conventional flu viruses have killed far more people than other, more publicized, strains in recent years. Avian flu, for example, has killed 257 people worldwide since 2003, according to the World Health Organization. It has killed no people at all in the United States.

Other not-well-publicized infectious diseases also have very high death rates compared to the swine flu has doen so far.

Septicemia, or blood infection, killed 34,234 Americans in 2006, the vast majority of whom were senior citizens, the same group that makes up the majority of flu-related deaths.

HIV-- the virus that causes AIDS--killed 12,113 people in 2006. Of those, 8,387 were between the ages of 35 to 54. The CDC reports that 75 percent of Americans who die from HIV are men who contract the disease through homosexual acts or intravenous drug use.

Intestinal infections caused by the clostridium difficile bacterium killed 6,225 people in 2006. Clostridium difficile is a bacterium found in human feces which normally infects elderly people during hospital stays or when they are on strong antibiotics.

Hepatitis, a disease frequently spread through sexual contact or drug use, killed 7,250 people, while meningitis--typically spread through poor hygiene and sanitation--killed 634.

Meanwhile, the current swine flu outbreak has claimed the life of one person, who did not contract the disease in the United States--and 168 people in Mexico.

On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden told viewers of NBC’s Today show that he wouldn’t be going anywhere in a confined place such as a train or airplane, due to the outbreak of swine flu.

“I would tell members of my family--and I have--that I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places,” Biden said. “It’s not just going to Mexico--if you’re in a confined aircraft and one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft.”

President Obama recommended that Americans have a swine-flu contingency plan in place, should the current outbreak intensify. He made no mention of other diseases that have killed more Americans.

“(W)e’ve recommended that both parents and businesses think about contingency plans,” the President said. “I’ve asked every American to take the same steps you would take to prevent any other flu: keep your hands washed; cover your mouth when you cough; stay home from work if you're sick; and keep your children home from school if they're sick.”

Posted by Cecilia Trent

The Obama Flu?