Senate approves Johnson to head U.S. Homeland Security department

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:59pm EST

(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Jeh Johnson, a national security expert who has served as the Pentagon's top lawyer, as head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Johnson, who was the Defense Department's general counsel during President Barack Obama's first term, will succeed Janet Napolitano, who left in September to become the president of the University of California system.

The Senate approved Johnson on a vote of 78-16 as part of a raft of confirmations pushed forward after a recent rule change stripped Republicans of their power to block nominees with a procedural roadblock known as a filibuster.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/16/us-usa-senate-johnson-idUSBRE9BF1I120131216

[valerief]

1. Jeh? Meh.

I have no idea who the man is. I just had to do the rhyme.

[madinmaryland]

2. Snort. "Now you can call me Ray, or

you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior; now you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or you can call me RJJ Jr., but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!"

[valerief]

3. Ha! I'm old enough to remember that. nt

[maxsolomon]

4. Look at you, US Senate! Getting shit done for once.

All it took was destroying the "Comity" of the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body".

[The Wizard]

6. McConnell's nuts got squeezed

A full rusty saw castration would be a sight that would generate big bucks in a pay-per-view fund raiser.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

8. The last thing I needed with a queasy stomach was a visual of anything happening to

Mitch McChinless' nuts.

:vomit:

[The Wizard]

11. McConnell's

nuts in a vise grip.

[fujiyama]

5. Funny how it passed 78-16 when it came to a vote

What happened to the rest of the republicans when he and others were being filibustered? Why didn't they break it then?

There is no difference between the "tea party" and the rest of the GOP. The supposed moderates are just a bunch of cowards. Props to Reid for breaking through through this bullshit.

[DFW]

9. Amazing sprouting of "bipartisanship." You noticed it too?

Now that Republicans can't block EVERYTHING just for the hell of it, some of them are suddenly voting yes for more qualified nominees than they ever did before during Obama's presidency. They get no more headlines for voting no, and so they aren't bothering, except for the ones who would vote NO even if Obama nominated God to be Secretary of Defense and Wise King Solomon to the Supreme Court.

[Swede Atlanta]

7. We know virtually nothing about this guy.......

I do not trust the Department of "Faderland" Security.

We would not need this department or the expanded surveillance of the NSA or Gitmo or any of the rest of this nonsense if Shrub had paid attention to the National Security Briefing "Al Qaeda committed to attack on U.S. soil using airplanes" and they had done something about it.

I still believe this was "allowed" to happen to create the security and police state in which we live. I think the PNAC guys wanted a domestic police state and they have now got it.

I respect the individuals working in this department as far as those simply doing their jobs. They have a job and they are doing it but as far as the policy makers and those at the top I have zero respect for them. They are NOT protecting us if in the course of doing so they deprive us of our constitutional rights and grope young children at airports.

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Dude's most likely another Insider who'll do whatever he's told to do, and nothing more.