Posted on 01/20/2005 6:58:20 PM PST by wagglebee
The Congress of Racial Equality blasted Sen. Robert Byrd on Thursday for holding up full Senate confirmation for Secretary of State-nominee Condoleezza Rice, denouncing the former Ku Klux Klansman as an unreconstructed "racist."
"It's not surprising," CORE spokesman Niger Innis told NewsMax. "Byrd was a racist 50 years ago under the guise of leading the Dixiecrats and he's a non-reformed Dixiecrat today." Innis said the only difference between the Robert Byrd of the 1950s and now is, "He's got black colleagues in the House and the Senate who apologize for him."
The Senate had been poised to confirm Dr. Rice on Thursday when Byrd and Sen. Barbara Boxer threatened to extend debate and force a postponement, CNN reported Thursday morning.
With that, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid asked the Republican Majority for nine hours of debate on Rice's nomination, now scheduled for Tuesday.
Innis also shed some light on a report Tuesday that White House political guru Karl Rove was a no show at CORE's annual Martin Luther King Day dinner in New York, where he was slated to be the guest of honor.
"We got a communication that he would not be able to make it earlier in the day," Innis told NewsMax, as he was preparing for Thursday night's inaugural festivities in Washington, D.C. "There was some type of emergency and we were told that in advance of the dinner. So it's not like he completely didn't show."
CORE, the Heritage Foundation and the American Conservative Union, as well as several other groups, sponsored the inaugural ball held at the City Museum of Washington.
"We are very pleased to be part of a coalition that, I think under normal circumstances, people would say are strange bedfellows - but are actually not so strange anymore," Innis said.
Heh, heh. He's right.
Good on Niger!
I heard it and agree with your view. Biden's sludge was akin to telling the "hired help" how to behave when in the main house. Despicable.
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...... We Republicans get yet another opportunity to thank God for that which sets us so far apart from them "Dems."
Late word is, bigotboy Byrd has sent an aide to the dry cleaner to pick up his laundry: linens, bleached and starched.
It harkens back to a well-known scene from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in which Eliza is crossing the ice. Here is one version.
Click to see enlarged picture of Eliza crossing the ice
In today's cartoon by Elliot Banfield, we see Condi crossing the ice near a sign pointing to the State Department. The nasty-looking dogs who are tracking her are labeled Kerry, Biden and Boxer.
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