[OXENinFLA]

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S COMPLETE.

I've taken out Raidoblogger's comments, you can hit the link to read them.

This was just to big to wait till tomorrow to post this from Thomas.

But I will be posting Byrd's comments in full from Thomas tomorrow

[OXENinFLA]

PING...

[cripplecreek]

Hugh Hewitt is talking about it and taking calls.

[Peach]

This is so beyond the pale.

I wonder how family members who lost people in WWII in the Holocaust feel about Byrd comparing the GOP to Hitler?

[smoothsailing]

Dems say Byrd is the conscience of the Senate....

[peyton randolph]

How could they accurately transcribe what he said? Didn't the white pillowcase over his head muffle the voice?

[arasina]

I caught a mention of this on Britt Hume's newscast tonight. It wasn't an off-the-cuff comment by the extremist Byrd but a prepared speech. But hey, if Teddy can get away with vitriole without being censured, why would Byrd worry about any repercussions?

[Timmy]

When Byrd was Senate majority leader, he reportedly used the "nuclear option" some four times to circumvent filibusters. They don't even care about their hypocrisy, do they?

[Cboldt]

Says Byrd: "Note, hear me again, note that nowhere, nowhere in the Constitution of the United States is a vote on appointments mandated."

Same is true for cabinet appointments, ambassadors, etc. To read it the way Byrd does, the Senate could emasculate the office of president.

[mysto]

Me and my friends in the bedsheets can filibuster all we want! WAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

[The Loan Arranger]

"Minorites have an illustrious past full of suffering, torture, smear and even death." A member of the Ku Klux Klan actually had the NERVE to make the above statement!? Paging George Orwell!!

[sweetliberty]

"right of extended debate"

Right of extended debate??? I think 4 years of minority obstructionist tactics is quite long enough.

[LibertarianInExile]

Typical Klansman, wrapping himself in the flag.

[Dog Gone]

It's about the most disjointed writing I've seen in awhile. I read it twice and still can't figure out whether he's for the filibuster or against it.

He comes out strongly both ways.

[Balata]

The Senate is the watchdog because majorities can be wrong, and filibusters can highlight injustices, and history is full of examples.

Elections don't matter. We liberals know what is best.

[wagglebee]

Hitler's originality lay in his realization that effective revolutions in modern conditions are carried out with, and not without, not against, the power of the State. The correct order of events was first to secure access to that power of the State, and then begin his revolution. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality.

Well now we know who Grand Dragon Byrd sees as his role model, not that there was ever a lot of doubt.

[kittymyrib]

Oh Lord, how long will we be subjected to the ramblings and rantings of this senile old SOB? Good people die young, but this is ridiculous.

[Friend of thunder]

This is your post, but I think this qualifies as breaking news.

That being said, I think former Klansman Democratic Senator Robert Byrd has inhaled too much smoke from too many burning crosses.

This was just to big to wait till tomorrow to post this from Thomas.

It will be interesting to see if these comments make it into the Congressional record; as I understand it, he can "revise and extend” his comments and that is all that will show up in the record.

[finnman69]

The nuclear option is a win win. The Rats were going to filibuster anyway, and will fight the rule change as well. Might as well force them to suffer double bad press.

[Mr. Silverback]

For "sheets" Byrd to invoke Hitler...that takes some serious chutzpah.

As Fred Barnes said tonight on Brit Hume, "when you've started comparing your opponents to Hitler, you've wandered off into the swamps of Demgoguery and should just be left there."

[solitas]

Hitler's originality lay ... his illegality legal.

byrd may be senile, and too long past his date with the grave, but at least he's got his history right.