Posted on 07/01/2007 3:58:34 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Through sheer force of will and/or idiocy, he’s managed to stretch his vote Thursday morning on cloture into a three-day, Kerryesque fiasco. Yesterday he said he’d intended to switch from yes to no all along. Today, a more nuanced explanation emerges.
Exactly the type of man we need in the White House right now.
Though some on both sides of the issue accused Brownback of flip-flopping once he saw that he would end up on the losing side of the debate, the senator suggested that it was again compassion this time for a general public deeply divided over how to deal with immigration that drove his mid-vote change.
Brownback told Congressional Quarterlys CQToday, I just concluded as I was on the floor that the country is just not ready. He added that the issue just needs to rest for a while.
More specifically, he concluded this while he was on the floor after he’d already voted and the bill had already gone down to defeat. So his insight into what America is “ready” for is basically of the same order of profundity as a kindergartner who can count successfully up to the magic cloture-busting number of 40.
Meanwhile, the Times is startled by the “heated rhetoric” and verbal “pollut[ion]” of the amnesty debate. Not the Nazi jibes and slavery analogies and relentless, shrieking accusations of bad faith and racism directed at amnesty opponents from Bush on down, but rather by Jeff Sessions’s remark that illegals had “broken in” to America by running past the National Guard. Which of course, they have; hence the term “illegals.” We Nazis will pay dearly for such incendiary invective at the polls, the Gray Lady warns. Exit question: Is the fact that the Times considers him an official Reasonable Voice the final nail in the coffin of Lindsey Graham’s credibility?
One John Kerry is enough.
Senator Switchback acted like an idiot because he only wanted to be WUVED!
“On second thought, I don’t know why anyone would now take Senator Switchback’s candidacy seriously.”
... or his word on anything.
LLS
They aren't.
LLS
That is when Fred can quit stuttering long enough to regurgitate his liberal dnc talking points for the day!
LLS
sometimes I watch the needle on my gas guage and wonder how far below “E” it can go. But how empty can an empty suit be?
“Brownback: On second thought, Im not sure why I switched”
and this guy wants to be POTUS???
“Brownback: On second thought, Im not sure why I dropped a bomb!!!”
“But how empty can an empty suit be?”
Any suit that osama obama wears will answer that question in a definitive way!
LLS
“He was prepared to vote on a bill that he had not read and the impact of which on this country he had not studied”
Must have realized it would have increased America’s ‘carbon track’,
not everyone can live like Americans, or Global Warming will
become a crisis.
Didn’t Browneye oppose the “Surge”?
It is scary that a person with such poor judgment could get even remotely close to becoming president.
I just concluded as I was on the floor that the country is just not ready. He added that the issue just needs to rest for a while.
Americans will never be ready to give amnesty to people who break our laws and then flaunt it in our faces. Not to mention having Senators that believe that they are smarter than thou and are doing the right thing regardless of what “We the People” want.
There's always the old style political con: have multiple similar versions of an unpopular bill which the reps want passed. That way everyone can brag about voting no while at the same time ensuring it will be passed.
I expected that with the latest amnesty bill: once it passed cloture Harry Reid would only need 50 votes to pass it so he would have 10 slots available to vote against it which he could pass out to Dems who needed political cover.
No need to be afraid. He is no closer to becoming President than you or I.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831454/posts?page=151,14
I have never forgotten his refusal to skewer the Kansas Gov. for her deliberate lie about the Tornado scenario. His refusal to answer the charge left him as a non-starter with me. Rightfully branded a RINO.
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