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Article: Saint Sam: Senator Brownback of Kansas is one of the country's leading virtuecrats.(POLITICS)
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- National Review
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- May 8, 2006
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ABOUT five years ago, at a weekly prayer meeting of senators, Sam Brownback came as close as he ever had to confessing to a hate crime. "I was scheduled to be the speaker that morning," recalls Brownback, a Kansas Republican. "As I was preparing for it, I had seen hate in myself for the Clintons. I felt righteous. That's not a Christian virtue."
Brownback says his antipathy for the Clintons grew out of the government shutdowns of the mid-1990s, when he was a freshman member of the House. "We were trying to balance the budget, and President Clinton backed away from an agreement," he says. "I flew off the handle." More controversies followed, including impeachment. ...