By almost every indication, the right is going to try to make a stink about Barack Obama's choice of Kathleen Sebelius to serve as his Secretary of Health and Human Services because -- gasp -- the Kansas Governor is pro-choice. But it's going to be awfully difficult for conservatives to mount much of a successful faux-outrage effort with Kansas' two conservative Republican Senators backing her nomination.

A setback to the attempt to rally conservative Catholics against Kathleen Sebelius at HHS: Conservative Catholic Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas voices his support, in a joint statement with fellow Kansas Republican Pat Roberts:

Congratulations to Governor Sebelius on being nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It's an honor for the State of Kansas to have an elected official appointed to the president's cabinet. We look forward to working with her on issues important to the state including a National Cancer Institute Designation at the University of Kansas Cancer Center.

Also, kind words today from Governors Schwarzenegger of California, Purdue of Georgia, and Huntsman of Utah, all Republicans.

It's too early to call Sebelius' approval by the United States Senate a done deal, because as we've seen so far with the nomination process, unexpected bumps can arise. But with two Republican Senators seemingly approving of her selection, presumably putting her level of support above 60 votes in the Senate, it's difficult to see how conservatives would be able successfully block Sebelius from joining the Cabinet -- putting the establishment media, which is used to acting at the beck and call of the right on faux-outrages like Sebelius' support of a woman's right to choose, in the tough position of either following their normal inclinations or bowing to the reality that the right's whining doesn't actually matter in this instance.