Former Senator Metzenbaum Dead

email | 3/12/08 | Unk

[Wpin]

Another GOOD democrat. Happy day!

[dbehsman]

That was the first time when I thought to myself that President Bush was a dope. I still can’t believe that he said that.

[Live free or die]

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

You people make me sick.

[ohioman]

If we are so disgusting I suggest you get the hell outta here and never come back. Like all we need is to be yacked at by another limp wristed RINO.

[onedoug]

Being a Senator is having forsworn any sense of decency.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

My favorite memory of Metzenbaum will always be his line of questioning during the confirmation hearings for Robert Bork. Metzenbaum had seized on an academic article written by Bork which analyzed the virtues of price fixing at retail. Not collusion between manufacturers to maintain minimum prices, but the ability of a manufacturer (say Acme Widgets) to say that its model #57 will not be sold at less than $X price. The argument for such a scheme being that manufacturers might be encouraged to begin offering additional services with the product if they could be assured it wouldn't be blown out at major discounts. Whether or not it was something the Congress wanted to offer as a modification of the traditional anti-trust laws was one thing, but this was an academic journal thought piece, and Metzenbaum, completely misunderstanding the piece, went on to beat up Bork, asserting that he was advocating allowing price setting collusion between competitors. Bork tried to explain this about 4 different ways and Metzenbaum was completely opaque, he could not understand the simple distinction. Metzenbaum later cited studies by union economists that showed Ohio consumers would be hurt to the tune of $X billion dollars if this scheme of price fixing (collusion between competitors) were allowed. It was the definition of demagoguery. Good riddance Howie!

[pgkdan]

Good for you. He was a liberal democrat. A pro abortion, gun grabbing, anti constitutional left wing extremist. I don’t mourn his passing.

[Pistolshot]

"What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned." - Senator Howard Metzenbaum

I'm not shedding any tears.

[ohioman]

You gotta good memory. As an Ohioan I always remember the colorful expletives my dad used to describe Metzenbum.

[dcwusmc]

No one is deserving of my respect who spends his whole political life trying to disarm me and leave me helpless before criminals, whether free-lance or “official.” Metzenbaum was just a big government gun-grabber and I can think of nothing nice about him. Sure, maybe he didn’t beat his wife... big yip! He fed at the trough of big government and was nothing more than a parasite on the American people, a pimple on our backside.

[dcwusmc]

Why? Not mourning the passing of another big government gun-grabbing statist thug?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Wikipedia says he was never a lawyer for the CPUSA. Mmmmkay.

Cleveland and received a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University in 1939 and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the same school in 1941. During the 1940s, he practiced law in Cleveland, mostly for labor unions, first the Communications Workers of America and then the International Association of Machinists.

Despite urban legends to the contrary, he claims he never represented the Communist Party.[1] When the National Republican Senatorial Committee suggested in 1987 that he had “Communist sympathies”, Chairman Rudy Boschwitz apologized for the insulting smear.[2]

[dfwgator]

And Neville Chamberlain thought Hitler was a decent man in Munich.

[Squantos]

LMAO !!

Personal insult from staytrue to us about our personal insults .....real intelligence from Stayfake !

Stay Safe Ohioman !

[Squantos]

One less reprobate to deal with ........:o)

Stay safe !

[Sir_Ed]

I feel as much sadness about this man’s death, who tried to steal my guns, my means of self-defense for myself and my family, as I mourned Stalin, Iron Felix, Causescu or Spitzer’s resignation...

Ed

[dcwusmc]

Agreed!!