[axel f]

Nice hitpiece on Brownback. He's up for re-election next year, and I have a feeling the left will go out to defeat him. This stupid article is only the beginning.

[goldstategop]

Yep. And why should his being a Roman Catholic disturb the Left? Only reason this kind of article would be put out is to imply if you're pro-life you're unfit for public office. Anti-Catholicism from liberals is quite a change from the 1960s when they celebrated the election of the first Catholic as President.

[OpusatFR]

Yup. Very.

Interesting that this editor does not differentiate between the Catholic laity being asked by the Catholic Bishops and faithful to adhere to Catholic teaching, but is imposing a religious test on Brownback though a secular newspaper.

I don't remember Kennedy discussing his faith in terms of abortion or euthanasia or contraception. These are relatively new issues.

That she asks Brownback to discuss matters of conscience and faith seems to be a violation and imposition of a religious test and unacceptable intolerance. Opus Dei is not ~normal~ according to this editor? I not only have a problem with her description of the community, but also with her judgment based upon limited knowledge and religious background, especially from a secular news source. Has she asked Sen. Lieberman, albeit he is not her Senator, to discuss his views as an Orthodox Jew, or has she asked Senator Daschle to discuss his views as a CINO? Would she ask them to describe their religious practices and editorialize whether they are acceptable?

[Steel Eye]

Dear Mary

You are right. It is not fair for Brownback to keep his personal beliefs to himself. Perhaps he should start doing what Clinton did. You remember.... the "look at me going to church with my Bible and my lovely wife" photo-ops he did every Sunday. He always looked so nice. I wonder if he was wearing Monica's tie? Or, perhaps, her thong underwear.

Ya think?

SE


I saw this AM. I sent her the above email. The last conservative on that paper was a guy named Harris in the mid nineties. He was fired, (more like crucified), for jokingly calling Carla Stovall a "sex kitten" in one of his columns. In fairness, they have been pretty hard on our new governor. (They think she should raise taxes.) This editorial from Friday gives a pretty good idea who they are. Socialists, plain and simple.


http://www.hutchnews.com/past/06-13-2003/opinion/opinion2.html

Private sector efficacy

Scandals expose theory as false as accounting

Perhaps more than any other idea, the theory of the superiority of the private sector over the public sector determined election outcomes and drove policy decisions in the late 20th Century.

But corporate scandals, starting with Rite Aid and continuing with Enron, Tyco, ImClone, Freddie Mac and even Westar Energy, have eroded the theory of private sector efficacy. Nothing at the Pentagon or Housing and Urban Development, for example, matches the outrageous actions of the bullies who ran WorldCom into the ground.

Two reports released last week detail what led to an $11 billion overstatement of income and forced the company into the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. Among other things, the reports reveal that:

* Former Chairman Bernard Ebbers attended meetings in which company officials discussed ways to artificially inflate revenue.

* Former Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan used what he termed "accounting fluff" to hide that WorldCom's real numbers fell short of Wall Street's expectations.

* At least 40 key employees knew about efforts to mislead investors about quarterly results, yet they remained silent because of threats by upper managers. In one incident, accounting executive Buford Yates warned an underling who questioned the company's books not to show auditors the numbers or "I'll throw you out the (expletive) window."

What great corporate leadership. The greedy characters involved proved the theory of private sector superiority to be as fraudulent as WorldCom's accounting.

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I would much rather have have a Senator who actually practices his faith than a Governor that pretends to be Catholic. She cannot even tolerate the basic ideas of the Catholic faith, but seeks any potential political advantage she can by claiming to be Catholic. How can one trust anyone on any issue when they don't even stand behind what they claim to beleive. Even before Sam became Catholic he was out doing good things that had no self-empowering political purpose such as working to end the slave trade in the Sudan. It is no surprise that this liberal reporter cannot even see that much. More hypocracy from the left....or perhaps she supports the slave trade in Sudan?

This article is a piece of trash. I would hope even Kansas democrats could see through this tripe. I do, however, agree with RW that Sam is untouchable in the next election. Other than that one shining example, our once great state is in serious trouble.