The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog

It appears that the so called “Gang of 14″ is disintegrating in the face of Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The collapse of the moderate’s compromise appears to be leading the country back toward the complicated parliamentary debate over the Nuclear Option. In case any of our reader have forgotten Senator Brownback’s position on the filibuster, a refresher is due:

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

Yes, that is Sam Brownback vowing to use a filibuster on the Senate floor in order to prevent life-saving cures from being developed. Now to be fair, that is a piece of legislation and not a nomination from the President. I wonder if ‘ole Sam ever threatened to not allow a nomination to get an “up or down” vote…

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback used a parliamentary maneuver to block the nomination of Julie Finley to be US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe… To block Finley, Brownback exercised the privilege called a hold, by which a senator can put a presidential nomination in purgatory indefinitely.

There you have it. Senator Sam Brownback firmly believes in the Senate’s right to indefinitely hold a President’s nomination. I’m sure he would support the Democrats if the Senate goes nuclear. As a man of supposed strong character, he certainly would not want to flip flop on this issue…