Sam Brownback wants to be our President and then he acts like this:
Democratic U-S Senator Carl Levin says it’s “very inappropriate” for a Kansas senator to ask a federal judicial nominee to promise not to rule on gay marriage cases.
Senator Sam Brownback says he’ll lift his hold on the confirmation of Michigan Appeals Judge Janet Neff to the federal bench if she agrees to step aside from gay marriage matters.
The Kansas Republican has stalled Neff’s nomination to a federal judgeship in western Michigan because she attended a lesbian commitment ceremony of a family friend.
Levin says the request undermines judicial integrity.
And then he has the audacity to say this:
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, among the most conservative of the potential Republican presidential candidates, said Tuesday there’s room in the GOP for candidates who favor gay rights, but he warned that such politicians wouldn’t be welcomed by the party’s conservative base.
“It’s a big-tent party and has been for a long period of time, particularly since Ronald Reagan talked about this being a party of different viewpoints,” said Brownback. “If somebody agrees with you 80 percent of the time, he’s not your enemy.”
Jesus Christ. Brownback is putting a hold on a judge because she went to the lesbian commitment ceremony of a friend, and he doesn’t think he is the enemy of gay people? He’s the enemy of all but the nastiest, meanest, pettiest homophobes in our dear nation. He wants a judge to agree not to rule on gay marriage because she was reckless enough to show support for her friend?
Sam Brownback should be a national pariah. A laughing stock is too good for him. He’s worse than a joke; he’s a menace.
I long for the day when it is shamed back to the ugly hole that it crawled out of…
Well, I wouldn’t mind if Brownback was the GOP nominee in 2008. Then we could give them a beating that would make 1964 look like a slap on the wrist.
He is the scum of the earth.
American Bigot, Sam Brownback
Nice design, refinish69. You have captured my sentiments as well. There is NO place in our leadership for bigots like Brownback.
some interesting times. There was an interesting match up between Paul Morrison and Phil Kline for State AG. Kline only got about 35%. But he did some fiddling, and got on a ballot for Morrison’s old job as Johnson County Prosecutor. But the ballot was ONLY voted on by republican precinct chairpersons because Morrison was republican when he held that office! The old crony repub bit held true and more experienced candidates were rebuffed in order to reward the ultra right candacy of Kline. There were several editorials in the KC Star asking “what were you thinking?” Kline is obsessed with shutting down abortion clinics and he uses every tactic in the book to do so. And most of the repubs in the political machinery in KS are ultra right wing. That is why there are repubs like Morrison jumping to the democratic party!
So much for that Catholic Conversion, Sen. Brownback went through. If you have a long memory you may remember that Congressman Brownback once supported the Gaglley Amendment in 1996 to deny undocumented children access to a public school education.
Anyone who can once tried to deny a child an education is going to have say a lot of “Hail Marys” before he is absolved.
we should prevent the confirmation of all judicial nominees who are:
The judicial benches are going to be pretty damn empty fairly soon…