Byrd would say: "Back in muh day we knew how to handle uppity nigresses."
VBG!
This stinks so bad, but I'm wondering where the NAACP is on this. Just imagine if roles were reversed and Trent Lott stepped up to stall a black Democrat's nomination to a cabinet position. Its just so hypocritical and will hardly be news in the media's eye.
Condi should feel lucky he is just using Senate rules to be an ass rather than trying to lynch her from the White House flag pole.
This whole effort is pathetic. There's no reason to hold Condi Rice hostage so that Senators that most of the American public ignore can make speeches.
That said, let them put Byrd in charge. Then everyone who supports the Bush Administration can make sure that Byrd's past is well-publicized. Let's do it, because the news media isn't going to do it.
He was of course making reference to an offensive and racist political cartoon which had circulated several months earlier and that portrayed Dr. Rice as just that -- a schreechintg black parrot.
Ole Sheets Byrd probably paid a visit or two to the slave cabins. That's how OLD he is ;-)
Newsmax is tearing the rats up and spitting chunks of rat meat all over the room on this one! The gore! And Boxer is saying Condi attacked her? Sounds like she pulled back a stub when she tried to get catty. Happened so fast I hardly 'saw' it. Yikes! Just a few words from Condi catching her in the attack.... This is right from Reagan's playbook. [paraphrase] "You can't hit a home run if they don't throw you fast hard-balls."