Kansas’ Sam Brownback missed another six Senate votes last week, bringing his AWOL vote total for the year to 58 of 181 votes, or a whopping 32 percent. Among the missed six were Thursday’s key votes on war funding and immigration. Only John McCain and Tim Johnson (the S.D. senator with the brain hemorrhage) have worse attendance records than Brownback this year. Meanwhile, fellow senators and presidential wannabes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have missed only 13 votes and four votes, respectively. At least with the Senate out of session until Monday, Brownback can campaign for president like crazy this week. But Brownback ought to be realizing by now why Bob Dole quit this seat to run in 1996.
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If I don’t show up for work, I don’t get paid. Is Brownback still collecting his full paycheck and advertising that he’s a fiscally responsible conservative?
I thought for a while that Sam the Sham might pull out a semi-respectable finish in Iowa that might propel him into the running for a Vice-Presidential spot on the eventual 2008 ticket.
But no more. It seems the more people see of Brownback, the less likely they are to vote for him.
Brownback’s perpetual 2% showing — in the *Republic* party primary, for chrissakes! — should be a wake-up call to all Kansas Republics to realize just how far out of the mainstream their champion in the Senate has become.
Sam pontificates his Opus Dei “every sperm is sacred,” evolution-denying, amnesty-for-employers-of-illegal-aliens agenda and even the GOP steps back and says, “Whoa!”
He’s running on all the issues the Republics have *said* they believe in since the Reagan years, but Sam apparently really *believes* it! The Republics certainly can’t have that!
When it comes to leadership, most Americans wouldn’t follow Browback up an escalator. This is one of the top three most important representatives of the people of Kansas in the world. No wonder there’s something “…the matter with Kansas.”
So he’s not showing up for work in the Senate. Good! I’d rather have him bedding down in a Motel 6 in Ottumwa than being a voice “for” Kansas in Washington, D.C. He can do a lot less harm in Iowa.
What a disgrace! If Nancy Boyda had missed this many votes, the neo-cons would be demanding her head. But taking the taxpayer’s money while pursuing a personal political agenda is what neo-conservatism is all about, right? Witness the examples of Connie Morris, Phill Kline, etc.
Senior Brownback has an agenda; to “save” every man, woman and child in the United States. That is so much more important than doing the job for which he was elected. Just ask him.
I have to concur with Long Time Poster. It doesn’t exactly make my heart go pitter-pat if Brownback is not in Washington casting votes that I disagree with anyway. The Republicans, by contrast, who apparently agree with him or they wouldn’t vote him back in every time, should be calling his office to request a form letter explaining why he and his fellow high priests are spending so much time in other states. You can figure that there’s a spiritual sort of reason behind it all. It’s mostly about welcoming religion into the public square, you see, right where Madison, Jefferson and the rest didn’t want it.
God’s senator is not showing up for work? He’s collecting a paycheck he didnt earn? Say it isnt so….
If roberts (ol’ rubber stamp) is bush’s senator…
And sammie is god’s senator….
Who represents Kansas?
Now. Now. Everybody calm down. Sam is out of the office due to his prayer schedule. He is a very busy pastor. His pay is none of your business. He is doing “Gods Work” and should be finished shortly. Protecting sperm, white males, and corporate interests is very time consuming. Just a matter of time before he is on tv pitching erectile disfunction pills.
Sam, you are going to do the right thing and give the money you didn’t earn back, right? Sure you are….
Hey Mike – the line about pitching erectile dysfunction pills is funny. Reminds me of another Senator from Kansas that nobody wanted for president.
Boy, it sure is quiet from the reich-wing side on this one.
Must be embarassing for them when their often repeated mantra of “hard work and personal responsibility” is shown to mean hard work and personal responsibility for the “little people and the suckers.”
If you’re a real power-player in CON world, you make OTHER people work hard and be responsible.
Sam is a prime example of what being a Republican is all about…all talk…just ask any Republican exactly when their children or they themselves are going to volunteer for service in Iraq…all talk.
call or fax him at these #’s
Senator Sam Brownback contact information- Taken from his web site
Office location Phone # Fax #Washington DC office 1-202-224-6521 1-202-228-1265Overland Park Office 1-913-492-6378 1-913-492-7253Topeka office 1-785-233-2503 1-785-233-2616Garden City office 1-620-231-6040 1-620-231-6347Wichita office 1-316-264-8066 1-316-264-9078
heheheeh “interested”.
That assumes sam the sham actually GIVES a buggered rat about what the people of kansas think…
Sam is a prime example of what being a Republican is all about…all talk…just ask any Republican exactly when their children or they themselves are going to volunteer for service in Iraq…all talk.
Posted by: happy | May 30, 2007 at 06:23 PM
Are you really that stupid?