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The Byrd Option: The former Senate leader knew how to break a filibuster
Opinion Journal ^ | 3/7/05 | editorial

Posted on 03/07/2005 4:45:55 AM PST by pookie18

West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd got into hot water last week for introducing Hitler into the Senate's already acrimonious debate on Democratic filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominations. Speaking of the Republicans' threatened "nuclear option," he said, "We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men." Herr Byrd does get carried away, but more revealing than his rhetoric was the substance of his remarks, on which he elaborated in an op-ed article in Friday's Washington Post. Somehow in his excoriation of a tactic that would deny Senators "their right to free speech on judicial nominations," Mr. Byrd forgot to mention that he pioneered the practice.

(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: filibuster; ussenate

1 posted on 03/07/2005 4:45:55 AM PST by pookie18
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To: pookie18

Rush aired this last Friday. Nice to know the Journal was taking notes.


2 posted on 03/07/2005 4:48:03 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: pookie18

S.O.S. different day - More hypocricy from the left.


3 posted on 03/07/2005 4:48:58 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: pookie18

Byrd is lacking in both intellect and character.


4 posted on 03/07/2005 4:54:23 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: kittymyrib
Rush aired this last Friday. Nice to know the Journal was taking notes.

This?

5 posted on 03/07/2005 4:55:02 AM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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To: pookie18

"The Byrd option." I like that.


6 posted on 03/07/2005 4:57:32 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: pookie18

Since the WSJ is subscription only, couldn't you post the meat of the article, instead of the introduction?


7 posted on 03/07/2005 5:05:23 AM PST by KidGlock (W-1)
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To: KidGlock

I tried, but on FR we have to excerpt their articles...wait, I'll FReep mail it to you shortly...


8 posted on 03/07/2005 5:10:26 AM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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To: pookie18

I understand you have to exerpt the article...

But post the main point, not the lengthy introduction.


9 posted on 03/07/2005 5:12:23 AM PST by KidGlock (W-1)
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To: pookie18

thanks for posting that link. I think that Sen. Coryn is a very agressive first term Senator and is going to be a big help to conservatives.


10 posted on 03/07/2005 5:24:24 AM PST by q_an_a
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To: pookie18

DOes that mean we get to "give 'em the bird"?


11 posted on 03/07/2005 5:35:49 AM PST by hoosiermama
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To: hoosiermama

Great time to wash the sheets.


12 posted on 03/07/2005 5:37:24 AM PST by Sybeck1
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To: q_an_a

I like Sen. Cornyn quite a lot as well.


13 posted on 03/07/2005 5:53:45 AM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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To: pookie18
West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd got into hot water last week ....

Incorrect.

It should read:

In a sane world, West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd would have gotten into hot water last week ....

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG

14 posted on 03/08/2005 6:12:51 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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