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Pope resolution passes after "life" language removed
Politico ^ | April 17, 2008 | Martin Kady

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; boxer; cultureoflife; pelosi; pope; senate
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"Brownback, a devout Catholic, did not want a high profile fight over the resolution"

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".

1 posted on 04/17/2008 1:39:19 PM PDT by icwhatudo
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To: Temple Owl

ping


2 posted on 04/17/2008 1:40:27 PM PDT by Tribune7 (How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
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To: icwhatudo

So, Pelousy just admitted that the unborn are live humans.


3 posted on 04/17/2008 1:41:35 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: icwhatudo

Caved AGAIN.


4 posted on 04/17/2008 1:43:20 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: icwhatudo

On target, fire for effect. You nailed him, FRiend.


5 posted on 04/17/2008 1:43:42 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: icwhatudo

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?


6 posted on 04/17/2008 1:44:07 PM PDT by stevem
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To: icwhatudo

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.


7 posted on 04/17/2008 1:45:29 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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Brownback, a devout Catholic, did not want a high profile fight over the resolution ...

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.

8 posted on 04/17/2008 1:47:49 PM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: icwhatudo

more worthless political posturing by the parasitic prostitutes in washington.


9 posted on 04/17/2008 1:49:02 PM PDT by Pietro
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To: icwhatudo

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.


10 posted on 04/17/2008 1:49:18 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Can we just repost this line in every response to this thread? Its soooooo perfect:

"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."

11 posted on 04/17/2008 1:50:13 PM PDT by icwhatudo
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To: Cicero

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.


12 posted on 04/17/2008 1:52:36 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: icwhatudo

“Jellyback, a squishy, fair-weather Catholic poltroon, did not want a high profile fight over the resolution.”

Fixed.


13 posted on 04/17/2008 1:52:52 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: MrB

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.


14 posted on 04/17/2008 1:53:24 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: icwhatudo

Good heavens, Senator, leave it in there and have the dog-gone fight, will you!? Aren’t the unborn worth it?


15 posted on 04/17/2008 1:54:58 PM PDT by Antoninus (Tell us how you came to Barack?)
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Brownback, a devout Catholic, did not want a high profile fight over the resolution.

The fifty million murdered babies salute you, Senator, for your courage!

/sarc
16 posted on 04/17/2008 1:56:58 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: icwhatudo
Interesting according the EWTN's schedule they are suppose to be showing B16 meeting with teachers at Catholic Univeristy.

Maybe after this mornings Mass, he wants to chat with them behind closed doors.

17 posted on 04/17/2008 1:59:31 PM PDT by mware (mware...killer of threads.)
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To: mware

Spoke too soon. Looks like it is coming on now.


18 posted on 04/17/2008 2:00:44 PM PDT by mware (mware...killer of threads.)
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To: icwhatudo

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.


19 posted on 04/17/2008 2:02:10 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American history.)
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To: stevem
can’t work as a politician in DC for a career unless you have a brainectomy?

A lobotomy!

20 posted on 04/17/2008 2:02:17 PM PDT by Bitsy
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