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Brownback won't support Dems Iraq resolution (another backs away from political suicide)
MSNBC ^ | 1/25/2007 | AP

Posted on 01/25/2007 2:49:23 PM PST by tobyhill

WASHINGTON - Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback said Thursday he would not support a resolution drafted by Democrats opposing President Bush's Iraq plan, but he could back a rival proposal that contains less partisan language.

Brownback, among the first Republican lawmakers to publicly break with the president over a troop increase in Iraq, said the resolution approved this week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is too divisive.

"I think what we ought to be discussing now as these resolutions move forward is what we should support, not what we're opposed to, and what we can pull together on, not what we're divided on," Brownback said during a conference call with reporters.

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1 posted on 01/25/2007 2:49:27 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
I sent this coward an email yesterday.

I think he has burned his bridge with me, so going forward with his Presidential quest is a joke.

2 posted on 01/25/2007 2:50:47 PM PST by lormand (Michael Wiener - Populist ear candy for morons)
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To: tobyhill

Walked into that one didn't you Sam?


3 posted on 01/25/2007 2:51:40 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: lormand

You got that straight - it's had to believe these clowns don't think we'll see through this kind of crap.


4 posted on 01/25/2007 2:52:53 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: lormand
I don't want this guy for the GOP nomination.
5 posted on 01/25/2007 2:54:27 PM PST by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: Chi-townChief
I minced no words in my phone call to lugar's office...my senator who has been a HUGE disappointment these last few years. WHAT A WIMP!

Guess the cozy pseudo senatorial clubbiness really got to him...he has FORGOTTEN he represents a state that supports our troops.

6 posted on 01/25/2007 2:55:15 PM PST by Republic (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity & Mark Levin have a genuine passion for our nation!)
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To: tobyhill

Either support the war or vote to cut off funds and end it.

I can respect either position, although I disagree with cutting off funds.

To do neither and support a nonbinding resolution is an act of cowardice that all voters should view with the utmost contempt.


7 posted on 01/25/2007 2:55:24 PM PST by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!)
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To: Ukiapah Heep

the GOP 2008 race is fast turning into a race to be the least bad candidate. Will a savior emerge?


8 posted on 01/25/2007 2:56:05 PM PST by maximusaurelius
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To: tobyhill
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback said Thursday he would not support a resolution drafted by Democrats opposing President Bush's Iraq plan, but he could back a rival proposal that contains less partisan language.

Not good enough

Read Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall.com column deals with the pledge, but there is even greater urgency to the task of bringing informed pressure to bear on GOP senators gone wobbly on the war.  If you are a blogger, please consider posting the contact information below and urging your readers to join in the effort to wake up the GOP Senate caucus.  Send along Dean's post  as a primer on how senators are supposed to act when difficult political decisions loom affecting the life of their country and the conduct of a war.

Please tell the candidates in the ’08 cycle especially –Alexander, Collins, Coleman and Smith and would be presidential nominee Brownback—that a vote for the Warner resolution is the end of support for them and the NRSC.

Senator Alexander’s phone: (202) 224-4944. His e-mail is here.

Senator Brownback’s phone: (202) 224-6521. His e-mail is here.

Senator Coleman’s phone: (202) 224-5641.His e-mail is here.

Senator Collins’ phone: (202) 224-2523. Her e-mail is here.

Senator Smith’s phone: (202) 224-3753. His e-mail is here.

Senator Voinovich's phone: (202) 224-3353.  His e-mail is here.

The GOP leadership, which need to announce that no resolution will voted on that encourages the enemy, and that includes the Warner resolution or any cousin of the Warner resolution:

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s phone is (202) 224-2541. His e-mail is here.

Minority Whip Trent Lott’s phone is (202) 224-6253. His e-mail is here.

Senator Jon Kyl’s phone is (202) 224-4521. His e-mail is here.

Senator John Ensign’s phone is (202) 224-6244. His e-mail is here.

When you are done calling and writing, start over, and ask your friends to do so as well, beginning with the pledge. 

I don't know what these senators are thinking this morning, but they clearly haven't been listening to you.  No debate will begin or vote be taken until next week, so invest some time in supporting the troops by bringing clarity to these senators: You can't win a war by encouraging the enemy and undercutting the commander on the ground in Iraq or the Commander-in-Chief in the White House.  Not to understand that is a great way to send an unreversable message to core supporters that their time and money is best spent elsewhere.

 

Senator Brownback's campaign website e-mai is: info@brownback.com.

Visit TheNRSCPledge.com, sign up, contact the key senators, and then ask your friends and family to do the same.

 

 


9 posted on 01/25/2007 2:57:42 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (We are going to win!))
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To: Chi-townChief
it's had to believe these clowns don't think we'll see through this kind of crap.

Even the moonbats on the Left aren't so stupid that they won't see through it either. If I was a leftist antiwar moonbat I would be very upset at the 'rats for only passing a toothless resolution instead of defunding the war.

10 posted on 01/25/2007 2:57:51 PM PST by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!)
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To: lormand

I live next door in Missouri. The guy is a political light weight. His run for president is a joke.


11 posted on 01/25/2007 2:57:54 PM PST by Bombard
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To: You Dirty Rats
Either support the war or vote to cut off funds and end it.
You are right, Rats. You are right.

Sh1t or get off the frickin' pot. Sh1t or get off the pot.

12 posted on 01/25/2007 2:59:10 PM PST by samtheman
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To: tobyhill
The pressure is on!

Chicken Hawk...
13 posted on 01/25/2007 2:59:17 PM PST by x1stcav (I always thought he was a Murthaf*cker.)
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To: bnelson44

10,154 people have signed The Pledge thus far. Will you?

http://truthlaidbear.com/thenrscpledge/

What Can You Do?

1. Sign the Pledge

2. Contact your Senators and the Senate Republican leadership

3. Tell at least three friends about the Pledge


14 posted on 01/25/2007 2:59:17 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (We are going to win!))
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To: maximusaurelius

Yup! Duncan Hunter!!


15 posted on 01/25/2007 2:59:20 PM PST by MrLee
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To: maximusaurelius
It's looking so bad I'm thinking we're gonna hafta draft Lieberman and all go vote for him in the primaries. Newt's smart to stay out of the soup until later in the game. He's my first choice.
16 posted on 01/25/2007 2:59:20 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Chi-townChief

Don't you know they KNOW so much more that we little peons?
He has burned his bridge for sure, sell us out on this one and he will do it again.


17 posted on 01/25/2007 3:00:50 PM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: tobyhill
The cowardly Senate running from cowardly suicide bombers of women and children.

Disgraceful, embarrassing, and disgusting.
18 posted on 01/25/2007 3:01:13 PM PST by roses of sharon
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To: tobyhill

The issue is not "partisan language" these senators are pathetic.


19 posted on 01/25/2007 3:01:35 PM PST by Williams
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To: bnelson44

When you write, call him by his first name, none of that Sen stuff.


20 posted on 01/25/2007 3:03:19 PM PST by gulfcoast6
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