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Byrd compares Republicans to Hitler
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, March 2, 2005

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.


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To: JohnHuang2
Hey, c'mon. At least he didn't call 'em "white niggers." (He's "seen a lot of white niggers in [his] time.")
41 posted on 03/02/2005 5:13:16 AM PST by Stultis
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To: JohnHuang2
For my part, I compare Byrd to a potato bug.

...and not favorably, at that.

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG

42 posted on 03/02/2005 5:19:27 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: JohnHuang2

Well, in Byrd's case, he MIGHT have meant it as a compliment.


43 posted on 03/02/2005 5:21:28 AM PST by Fido969
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To: BibChr

Weird; well, the picture worked in Preview. Go to the link to see potato bugs in all their malevolence and horror.

Dan


44 posted on 03/02/2005 5:24:41 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
The very clear subtext is how much the Democrats fear a rule change.

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.

45 posted on 03/02/2005 5:25:05 AM PST by Stultis
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To: JohnHuang2
Yes, the Dems and Liberals just keep putting their foot in their mouths.
Liberals and Dems, just keep talking, and putting your foot in your mouths, the Republicans will keep on winning elections.
46 posted on 03/02/2005 5:33:39 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: JohnHuang2

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.


47 posted on 03/02/2005 5:34:10 AM PST by rwilson99 (R) South Park)
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To: Dallas59

Too bad the Senate Republicans continue to cower, as if they were the minority party on the brink of electoral oblivion.


48 posted on 03/02/2005 5:36:08 AM PST by Guillermo (Abajo fidel: End the Cuban Trade Embargo)
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To: JohnHuang2
He recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side

What an interesting comparison. Parsing and doing the word switch, does this work:

He recognized the enormous psychological value of NOT having the law on his side

Not sure I understand the Grand Man’s point. Not sure HE understands his point.
49 posted on 03/02/2005 5:38:45 AM PST by schaketo (http://www.gp.org/ Convince progressives to join the Green Party – Divide and conquer)
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To: JohnHuang2

Byrd calls Republicans Nazis...

Kennedy offers swimming lessons...

Sun rises in the East...

Nothing new here. Move along now.


50 posted on 03/02/2005 6:01:04 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (One Iraqi purple finger took more courage than John Kerry's three purple hearts.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

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.


51 posted on 03/02/2005 6:11:47 AM PST by confederate66
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To: gridlock

Your portrayal of his words is accurate except that the second try without the sheet would sound exactly the same as the first.


52 posted on 03/02/2005 6:12:12 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (You have seen that life is fragile, and evil is real, and courage triumphs -- George W Bush)
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To: Pharmboy

I was thinking the same thing. You know someone is out of good arguments when they start dragging Nazi references out.

MGY


53 posted on 03/02/2005 6:33:04 AM PST by TitanicMan2003 (This just in... Yasser Arafat, despite the rumors, is still dead.)
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To: JohnHuang2
the move would "incinerate" the rights of all senators.

Sort of like the way he used to incinerate crosses on the lawns of black folk he considered to uppity?

54 posted on 03/02/2005 6:40:10 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Bogtrotter52

LOL! That's too good!


55 posted on 03/02/2005 6:48:07 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: William of Orange
well well well, if it isn't the Grand Wizard of Lynchings Bobby Byrd...

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.

56 posted on 03/02/2005 7:24:50 AM PST by A. Pole (Richard Niebuhr: the first question of ethics is not "What should I do?" but "What is going on?")
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