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Sam Brownback first voted Yea on cloture today, and then Nay when he realized that the cloture motion was going to be defeated.

It now turns out that his presidential campaign had even prepared a statement to explain his Yea vote! They tried to erase the statement from their web site, but Google remembers all. From a Google-cached version of the statement:

Senator Brownback voted in favor of cloture on the motion to proceed to the immigration bill today. That means he voted to bring the bill back to the floor for debate and for amendments to be offered.

This does NOT mean that Senator Brownback supports the immigration bill itself – he feels the bill needs to be improved.

In other words, Brownback actually thought he could fool us yahoos by voting for cloture and then voting against the bill! And he didn’t even realize that cloture itself would fail!

And we thought Brownback’s colleagues were out of touch…

I didn’t dig up any of this, these guys did.

UPDATE: Red State’s Leon Wolf showed up in the Comments section. While I have the deepest regard for Red State, Leon’s defense of Brownback’s flip-flopping is indefensible. So, in the spirit of Brownback’s vote-switching, I banned Leon before I unbanned him. Unfortunately, that had the effect of deleting all his comments, just like amnesty-related pages on Brownback and Martinez’s web sites.

-- PoliPundit