Sunday, July 31, 2005

Add Brownback to that list

of delusional wingnuts. No Face the Nation transcript available yet, but in the meanwhile here's Scott Johnson's take over at APJ's Pundit Pap:
    Sam Brownback (R-18th Century) avoided Schieffer's question about whether he might try to filibuster an override (read: yes, because it's OK to filibuster if you're a Republican), and instead spouted paranoid rhetoric about creating life and feigning outrage about using taxpayer money to "destroy human life" (um, Sam, it's a primitive frozen embryo that is likely to be destined for destruction anyway -- but far be it from Brownback to mention that fact). Brownback said that there are not the votes in the House to override as he continued to equate "creating... embryos... and clones" for "research" (as if that's what those evil biologists are out to do just for some kind of kinky pleasure) with unethical science. (Can you say paranoid fantasies that play to Bible-thumpers?)
Yes, that's right, when asked whether Frist's flip-flop-flip on stem cell research would have any affect on his own position, Brownback sputtered that he doesn't believe in cloning humans, and that, anyway, John Kerry spent all last year campaigning on the premise that life begins at conception.

Where is Planet Brownback located, exactly?

[UPDATE]: Transcript here.

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