[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?

[hsmomx3]

I can't figure out why citizens keep on voting for this guy.

[Worried Texan]

I can't take the liberty to speak for any one but myself, but this old fort just makes a fool out of his self. I saw him on and then I saw The wrinkled mass they call Kennedy and I just turned over to the medical Chanel.

[Cold Heat]

feel about Byrd comparing the GOP to Hitler?

I think the Hitler thing has been rendered pretty much meaningless.

I have been compared to Hitler by Conservatives on Shiavo threads, and a liberal constitutional deconstuctionist on SCOTUS threads tonight.

Add to that the inferences that I am a liberal illegal alien employer on immigration threads , a Nazi storm trooper on National ID threads........and so on.

I think some Conservatives right here on FR have managed to dilute any possible meaning of the word and rendered it useless.

I am teeered and goin to bed. These off season periods are getting my goat.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. the idiot is comparing "Mr. Smith's" fillabuster to the dems fillabuster of JUDICIAL NOMINEES. I have a comment about that - which I posted on another thread - and if it's allowed, I'll bost it again - because Byrd is way off the mark and people need to know that:

The Constitution does not permit FILLIBUSTERS FOR JUDICIAL NOMINEES!!

What is it about THAT FACT that escapes everybody ..??

The Senate, under Daschle, changed the SENATE RULES, to require 60 votes for judicial nominees - instead of 51. THIS IS ILLEGAL!!!!!!! THIS IS AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION.

What Frist needs to do is CHANGE THE SENATE RULE TO GO BACK TO SUPPORTING WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS - 51 votes is all it takes to confirm a judge!!

If the dems want to play hardball and try to make the repubs pay for UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION - which the dems also SWORE TO UPHOLD .. let them. If the dems want to fillabuster everything else - FINE! Let them! When November, 2006, comes around the Senate will have more than the 60 needed and all their whining will be moot anyway.

TO HELL WITH THE DEMS - they do not have America's interests foremost on their agenda - they are only interested in their own power. They are pathetic.

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That was my earlier rant. For Byrd to stand there and make that foolish comparison .. It's a LIE! The saddest part .. there is no democrat in the current Senate with the guts to stand up in the well of the Senate and rebuke Byrd - and Byrd is going to continue until someone is willing to do that.

Hopefully, in 2006 - the people of WV will be willing to get rid of him.