Brownback Wins This Week's Fundraising "Award"

Yeesh!
Good award, though, and I hope you make it a regular feature of this blog (which is great, p.s.). Maybe shaming the candidates into some sort of socially acceptable behavior is the best way to go.
It's a pity Brownback didn't include a nice entry against gun control just to be the cherry on top of this embarrassing sundae.

What is it about these Republican vermin? Brownback's smarmy and sick appeal for money is wrapped in a condolence note that is really a pitch for anti-abortionism masquerading as a pious message from someone who feels he is a paragon of rectitude. A page right out of Bush's sick habit of taking advantage of other's misery for his own advantage, whether that misery be the New Orleans hurricane or the deaths and maimings of thousands of our good men and women in Iraq. When is it going to dawn on the GOP that there are less than 19 months until November 2008. All of you Republican incumbents in Congress better be looking for a real job.

Miss Akers you do sound like a Ding Dong. Where's your beef? The Honorable Senator was supporting life and making it known that his support of the most vulnerable people, the soon to be born child, will be protected under his administration. I've never heard of you before is this your first attempt at being a columnist?

Do you have an award for Obama this week? He compared Imus' poor taste in a joke and it's affect on the society to the Virginia Tech massacre. Now that's something to write about.

Oh please, Mary Ann. Senator Brownback had already made a press release earlier in the week that dealt with the tragedy at VT. Brownback should take credit from this SC ruling as he was the one who stopped the Miers nomination and got Alito on the SC. Nearly every presidential campaign e-mail asks for money.

Wow you really nailed Sam Brownback. I hope you're proud of yourself.

This is a great day for the pro-life movement. We have Senator Sam Brownback to thank for rejecting the Miers nomination and getting Justice Alito on the court.

"and even challenge washingtonpost.com's articles" ... what a concept, probably pretty novel at the Post!

"A great day for the pro-life movement." Wow. You people really are on some sort of crusade to exert your opinion on other people's bodies. Why don't we focus on more important things like the war in Iraq. If you are pro-life, bring our soldiers home so they don't have to die for nothing.

The Honorable Senator was supporting life and making it known that his support of the most vulnerable people, the soon to be born child, will be protected under his administration. I've never heard of you before is this your first attempt at being a columnist.

Posted by: Ron in MA | April 18, 2007 08:44 PM
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Ron, I hate to burst your bubble. This particular law accomplishes one thing only. It forces women to have c-sections for babies that will die immediately upon birth. That's it. All other partial birth abortions are performed to save the life of the mother or to remove a dead fetus. Those are still legal.

This is a great day for the pro-life movement. We have Senator Sam Brownback to thank for rejecting the Miers nomination and getting Justice Alito on the court.

Posted by: Psycheout | April 18, 2007 10:01 PM
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Psycheout, are you completely daft? As written, this law does one thing only. It forces a woman to have a c-section to have a baby that will die immediately upon birth.
Someday in the future it may be used as a precedent by the government to force women to have abortions like they do in China. Way to go! Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Great letter from Brownback with strong arguments for life. He sounds consistent. He supports life at Va. Tech, and he supports life in the womb. Go Brownback!

What a bunch of knuckle dragging knuckle heads. Go Brownback... go back to Kansas, to your mother's womb, and stay there.

The column attacks Brownback as exploiting the VT tragedy, but nothing could be further from the truth. Like ALL the Presidential candidates, he expressed his condolensces. Like ALL candidates, he continues to ask supporters for financial support. Where's the beef?

As for asking for support on the heels of the partial birth abortion ban being declared Constitutional, nobody is more deserving. He has been a tireless advocate for Life, and not only the unborn. His entire campaign focuses on respect for ALL human life.

It should be noted too that the "health" exception Ginsburg in the minority and the Democratic candidates are whining about means not physical health or the life of the mother as the press leads us to believe but under Doe v. Bolton, the "health" exception means emotional well-being. The exception is so broad it would encompass a whim. They want abortion on demand and are too afraid to say it without the pretext because they know voters won't support that.

Give me a break, nobody is trying to raise money off the VT tragedy, the very notion is preposterous. Just out of curiosity, has the "Most Outrageous Fundraising Solicitation Award" gone to Schumer recently for requesting funds while heading an investigation panel in the same way he had previously criticized a Republican for doing the same thing? Or how about that nice prosecutor in Texas who raised money through moveon.org for his kid running for Tom DeLay's seat by promising to get Tom DeLay, and only got an indictment after convening half a dozen different grand juries. Best yet, how about John Edwards for employing multiple bloggers to help raise money and support for him who appeal to anti-Catholic bigots by spewing hatred, ignorance and bigotry through baseless namecalling and villification?

Ding, ding, ding! No? I guess the award must be reserved for your ideological opponents.

Thank you for providing that info about Senator Brownback. I wholeheartedly agree with the quotes you provided. I am strongly considering going to the link to donate to his campaign.

So, just checking here: Are we more polarized by Abortion Rights or the Iraq War? Do the same folks line up on the same sides on these arguments? Gun control, too? How about Global Warming, Tolerance for Religions, and Between-Meal-Snacks? I've started work on the new US map where one group (will they be called the "Reds"?) get some states and the other group (the "Blues") get the others, and I need to know how to draw the lines.

The dumber they are the dumber their appeals for funds. This show the need to add new justices to the supreme court and reverse the right wing agenda. Three more would probably do it!!!

"This is a great day for the cause of life, but we need to finish the job!"

Oh, yeah. This is a great day when congress gets to decide what procedure is best for a tragically fatal pregnancy rather than the doctor who actually sees the patient and can best determine what course to take. Doctors have the power of life or death over their patients already, get used to it, or outlaw all medicine. Letting religious belief and pathetic male queasiness dictate medical procedures is what the Taliban does, by the way. Congratulation on sinking to their level. I misunderstood that war in Afganistan; it is apparently professional jealousy, otherwise why liberate another culture from culturally strangling religious law, only to introduce it here?

How about limitations on certain procedures for treating fatal prostate cancer? How would you men feel about that? Say if Pelosi and Hillary wrote a bill that made radical prostatectomy illegal simply because it made them queasy? Oh, well, the doctor can do something else and, shame if that doesn't save your reproductive function. Too bad if that's banned procedure is the best to save your life and health. Tough luck for being male and able to contract prostate cancer. Yeah, that would fly, right? No? So, why are American women expected to take these stupid laws that put THEIR life and health at risk, but not men?

Ah, the Republicans, proving they are stuck in the 50s and women are still just baby machines trapped at their whim and law. Any women who votes for them in 2008 must despise themselves.

Innocent family linked falsely to terrorism spurs congressional investigation! www.sosnot.com to read what happened and what is being done..it can ha ppen to anyone!

a little bit of a stretch if it only had the link to his campaign website on it, but either way i don't care, brownback would not be a good president.

talking about campaign money. this doesn't come close to edwards using the money that those from his "other" american, the poor people's, money to buy himself a 400 dollar haircut. makes me sick. i dont' care if he spends his own money that, in fact, i would be the first to say let it go, but when he spends the money fo those who worked hard for it and gave to him becuase they believe he iwll help them and then he turns around and spends on that~!!!! disgusting. i dont' believe him at all when he says it was a mistake. it happened twice.

edwards is a slime ball, hallow, plaintiff's attorney. he makes me sick. please vote for anybody else. even obama who has no experience at all of substance would be better than him.