The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog

For the record… I think the charge of “flip flopper” is bogus. It is so generic that any senator’s record could easily be massaged to fit. That being said, if you’re gonna dish it out, you’d better be able to take it.

On that note, Senator Brownback seems to see no hypocrisy in opposing the filibuster when the Democrats are using it but championing it when he wants to use it. First, a KRT newswire story shows how Brownback felt about the filibuster just 2 weeks ago:

…the region’s other Republican senators, Kit Bond and Jim Talent of Missouri, and Sam Brownback of Kansas all said they would back Frist.

Brownback pointed out that “we’ve been hung up now four years” on several of the nominees.

“There’s no sign of it ending,” Brownback said. “We’re kind of at the end of the string. I don’t know what else we can do” other than change the rules.

Now for exhibit number two. This is Brownback five days ago discussing the upcoming stem cell research bill in the Senate:

“We’re going to do everything we can to stop it,” said Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record), R-Kan. He vowed to mount a filibuster, which allows a minority of senators to block a vote on the measure.

How I love the smell of hypocrisy. He makes it so easy. It makes me wonder if any of his legislative aides bothered to think how this would look. I guess he doesn’t have to worry about getting re-elected here in Kansas. Even if he was photographed having indecent relations with an emu Kansans would still elect him with 60% of the vote. Such is the crazy political culture of Kansas.

Thanks to the dailykos crew for the heads up.