Posted on 06/07/2005 11:20:53 AM PDT by PolishProud
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) has placed a "hold" on President Bush's nomination of Julie Finley as ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Mrs. Finley is well qualified. She has been a strong and active advocate in Washington for the expansion of NATO, the integration of Turkey into the European Union and the spread of democracy to countries of the former Soviet Union.
But on the grounds that Mrs. Finley is pro-choice on abortion, Senator Brownback has exercised the Senate's "Polish" procedure and figuratively cried "I oppose".
One senator can hold up a nomination by just noting his or her objection. As did Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.) when she put a hold on the Bolton confirmation.
The holder's identity is supposedly secret and his or her motive need not have anything to do with the nominee's qualifications.This arcane practice does have a precedent in history. James Michener, in his book Poland, writes, "The incredible Liberum veto, by which one man in a Seym (parliament) of hundreds could negate and prorogue the entire work of the Seym by merely crying ' I oppose' was a major cause of Poland's disappearance from the map of Europe."
You might say the U.S. Senate has become a "Polish Joke."
The Wall Street Opinion Journal has an interesting op-ed regarding the Senate. "hold."
Pro-abortion creeps should not be representing this country anywhere. Brownback is right.
Did you read the article? You have the people's views backwards.
We don't need an abortion cheerleader in that seat.
What does her position on abortion have anything to do with the job at hand?
It's people with your narrow mindset that neuter the Republican Party.
Is President Bush pro-life or not? If Mrs. Finley was a racist, she would not have been nominated by President Bush.
I wouldn't call Mrs Finley a left wing covert, I disagree with her views on abortion, but as far as I know, she does have an underlying left wing agenda.
I also don't think she is fighting the President, she is his pick.
An advocate of legalized murder should be representing other murderers and no one else.
Abortionists are the fruit you want to blossom out of the GOP?
I'm sorry I should have said does NOT have an underlying left wing agenda.
As a person of Polish descent, I must take offense at this title. Please don't compare our great jokes to the Senate again.
A pro-life Republican Party won the White House, the House and the Senate.
The wishy-washy pro-abortion Republican Party of Gerald Ford was neutered.
Wake up.
Then you need to oppose about half his cabinet appointments and the President himself. He refuses to tell us his views on Roe v Wade.
I know. I believe that pro-life should be a litmus test of all presidential appointments. The President is doing a great disservice to his political base by trying to imitate Kerry.
A Trial lawyer, a Pole and a US Senator walked into a bar...
Apparently she thinks Europe would be a better place if it were further flooded with islamists. How would that be beneficial to our security? Even Europeans realize it was a self-destructive plan.
No, thanks, Mr. President. Next.
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