...and not favorably, at that.
Posted on 03/02/2005 3:05:06 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Byrd compares Republicans to Hitler Former Klansman decries attempts to approve judicial nominees Posted: March 2, 2005 2:10 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – In denouncing Republican efforts to get President Bush's judicial nominees to the floor of the Senate for an up-or-down vote, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., compared Republican tactics to Adolph Hitler's use of power in Nazi Germany.
Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, said that if the GOP were to succeed in preventing Democratic filibusters of Bush's nominees, the move would "incinerate" the rights of all senators.
As many as 10 of Bush's nominees face the threat of filibuster, including William Myers, former lead counsel at the Interior Department who is up for a seat on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Myers has majority support in the Senate, but lacks the 60 votes needed to shatter a filibuster. To get past that barrier, Republicans would like to use their majority power to change the rules.
Byrd compared the idea to Hitler's abuse of power.
"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality. He recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side," he said.
Well, in Byrd's case, he MIGHT have meant it as a compliment.
Weird; well, the picture worked in Preview. Go to the link to see potato bugs in all their malevolence and horror.
Dan
Exactly. The overwrought threats of disastrous, obstructionist retaliation are similar to those Byrd issued over the integration of the military, the integration of schools, the civil rights act, etc. Except that Byrd was even more animated in intimidating blacks than in intimidating Republicans.
Let the Dems have their filibuster. Just make it a real filibuster, and institute drinking game rules for the number of times the words Grand Wizard, Klansman, Bigot, Racist and Old Fool can be used to describe the gentleman from WV.
Winning Senator gets an extra million for his re-election and a two day Bus tour with the President in his state.
Too bad the Senate Republicans continue to cower, as if they were the minority party on the brink of electoral oblivion.
Byrd calls Republicans Nazis...
Kennedy offers swimming lessons...
Sun rises in the East...
Nothing new here. Move along now.
Godwins Law in full effect here folks! When will people start using the term........."Your just like Saddam!!!"...?
I guess the liberals never will, that would mean Bush was right.
Your portrayal of his words is accurate except that the second try without the sheet would sound exactly the same as the first.
I was thinking the same thing. You know someone is out of good arguments when they start dragging Nazi references out.
MGY
Sort of like the way he used to incinerate crosses on the lawns of black folk he considered to uppity?
LOL! That's too good!
Byrd joined KKK when he was in his twenties and when it was an accepted thing in his area and family. He left KKK soon after. It should not be used against him any more that GWB youthful indiscretions.
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