Posted on 04/17/2008 1:39:19 PM PDT by icwhatudo
While Pope Benedict XVI's historic visit to Washington received wall to wall coverage, Sen. Barbara Boxer briefly held up a Senate resolution welcoming the pontiff because she objected to language about how the pope values "each and every human life."
The measure later cleared the Senate Thursday afternoon after the sponsor of the resolution, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), dropped the reference to "human life" because some Democrats saw it as a reference to abortion. According to Republican aides, Brownback, a devout Catholic, did not want a high profile fight over the resolution, which was adopted on a voice vote. In fact, Brownback blackberried his staff from the Pope's mass at Nationals Park to direct them to drop the references to human life.
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Reminds me of that scene in the movie Rudy where the coach yells at a player "you just summed up your entire sorry career in one sentence".
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So, Pelousy just admitted that the unborn are live humans.
Caved AGAIN.
On target, fire for effect. You nailed him, FRiend.
Why do politicians in DC always work so hard to show you can’t work as a politician in DC for a career unless you have a brainectomy?
we could go into any alley in los angeles and drag out any homeless wino and we would have a better US senator than that horrible hag barbie boxer.
Add that to the already long list of reasons why this guy shouldn't be President. If he isn't willing to fight the Democrats on this issue, what makes anyone think he'd fight our other enemies who are not so nice?
This is the kind of BS that makes me want to quit the GOP altogether. Why don't our elected officials have any backbone? We could have easily spun this to make the Democrats look more anti-Catholic than they already are. But yet again, another wimp decides to run away from a fight.
more worthless political posturing by the parasitic prostitutes in washington.
I don’t fault Brownback. It wouldn’t really have accomplished anything to have a political food fight over the Pope’s visit, which he couldn’t win. And it’s not as if people aren’t already aware that there’s a fight over abortion in our country, and which side the two parties are on.
It was a fine resolution, which I posted on an earlier version of this thread, and still had some very good stuff in it that the Dems must have gritted their teeth over before passing it.
But Barbara Boxer is a scum.
"This is the kind of BS that makes me want to quit the GOP altogether. Why don't our elected officials have any backbone? We could have easily spun this to make the Democrats look more anti-Catholic than they already are. But yet again, another wimp decides to run away from a fight."
He sure could have made them try to explain why they objected to the “life” language, made them get on record about it.
There’s already a transcript on the record with Feinstein or Boxer saying that a baby isn’t human until the parents take it home from the hospital.
“Jellyback, a squishy, fair-weather Catholic poltroon, did not want a high profile fight over the resolution.”
Fixed.
Does anyone know if Nancy “Pro-abort” Pelosi was present at today’s Mass at Nationals Stadium?
I believe her office stated this week that she planned to receive Communion.
Good heavens, Senator, leave it in there and have the dog-gone fight, will you!? Aren’t the unborn worth it?
Maybe after this mornings Mass, he wants to chat with them behind closed doors.
Spoke too soon. Looks like it is coming on now.
If Brownback had any stones at all, he would immediately introduce the ‘Barbara Boxer Equal Opportunity Infanticide Act’, and bellow into every microphone and camera he can find that since Barbara Boxer likes the idea of murdering unborn children, that she ought to have the courage of her convictions and become the sponsor of his proposed legislation.
A lobotomy!
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