Former ACLU staff attorney & Obama nominee for federal judge sent back to Obama, Obama renominates

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Other nominations returned to the White House without a vote included federal judge nominee Edward Chen in northern California, three Justice Department appointees, as well as nominees for the National Labor Relations Board and a nominee to be a brigadier general in the Army.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt_and_politics/article_6d298fdc-fbee-11de-a367-001cc4c03286.html



Judge Edward Milton Chen: Nominee for the Northern District of California
56 years old.


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Meet Obama's new US District Judicial Nominees
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6250108

Senate Judiciary Committee sends 4 Obama judicial US District court nominees to the floor
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6788170



Will Obama send his nomination back and shove it down their throats? Well, he just did that very thing with this nominee:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7419654

Edited: Obama will re-nominates according to the NYT.

[frazzled]

1. He's renominating Dawn Johnsen, too

Despite all the crazy people here screaming just a week ago that he'd killed her nomination! it was dead!

Um, not:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/dawn-johnsen-to-be-re-nom_n_415303.html

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2. Wow, didn't know that, I'm focusing on judicial stuff but glad to hear

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3. Breaking: Obama to send Chen back up!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/us/politics/08nominate.html

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4. Dear liberal base, can we get a collective cheer?

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5. This just in, Liberal base is better at complaining

[FrenchieCat]

6. LOL.....

True.

But I'm glad of this.

Soon, more will be glad about a lot of things,
till then, let them tear the man to shreds....
why should we mess with their party...?
they feel so much more powerful than when Bush was in office,
so if this helps them, to piss on our Democratic President
day in, day out, it may be a small price to pay. :shrug:

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7. Some is justified but the focus and extent is not

[SpartanDem]

8. The level to which good news is just ignored is sad

I mean you expect that controversial issues to get the most attention and discussion. But differences between the two is wildly out proportion.

[2 Much Tribulation]

9. True - SOMETIMES. Other times bad news trumps -if gulag's are being built, extra$ for parks not big

It's not that dollars for parks are bad, it's that gulags are a negative evil of a higher order, it just trumps.

One can reject the premise about gulags, but it doesn't have to be quite that extreme for the principle to apply: Example:

There's lots of good reasons for a wife to STAY with Tiger Woods, why focus on the "negative" of infidelity, It's "sad the level to which good news is just ignored" like Tiger's skills, a billion or so good reasons to stay, children, and on and on. But for most people, those "positives" don't matter much anymore as reasons to stay together after the fidelity Rubicon has been crossed. That line is drawn at different places for different people, however...

Basically, many people are saying that they've been "cheated on" by the POTUS. Many others may not feel that way, but that's them applying THEIR standards for "fidelity" if you will, but everyone has the right to their own individual standard for political "fidelity."

I'm not saying "ignore the positive," but if the "positive" is allowed to erase the memory of the really bad, then one will stay in really bad abusive relationships forever -- because the abuser sends flowers, etc.

So. What's more sad: An unhealthy focus on the positive or an unhealthy focus on the negative? Answer: It depends on whether or not you've Crossed the Rubicon so to speak.

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10. apples and orange tennis balls, imo

Obama doesn't equal an abuser