You by know should have heard about West Virgina Senator and former Klansman Robert Byrd comparing Republicans to Nazis because they wanted to amend the Senate rules to only require a simple majority to stop debate on judicial nominees. This rule would, in effect, outlaw the filibuster on Judicial nominees and is referred to as the Nuclear option.
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men," Byrd said. "But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends."Byrd then quoted historian Alan Bullock, saying Hitler "turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
Byrd added, "That is what the 'nuclear option' seeks to do."
 | According to Foxnews, his hometown newspaper has dug up Byrd's other uses of the Filibuster But Sen. Byrd’s hometown newspaper just dug up a controversial incident from the senator’s own use of the filibuster — a 14-hour speech he gave on the floor of the Senate in 1964, designed to kill the pending Civil Rights Act (search). At the time, the president of the local chapter of the NAACP (search) had this to say about the Senator’s filibuster: No wonder Robert Byrd loves the filibuster. |
Robert Byrd and the dixiecrats weren't liberals. in fact the American conservative union in 1971, the first year its ratings came out gave conservative democrats favorable conservative ratings, higher than many northeastern republicans. Robert Byrd and Fritz Hollings moderated their views somewhat to survive, but were given very favorable consevative ratings to rival republicans today. On the other hand, liberals like McGovern and Tedy Kennedy and the northern democrats who supported CRA 64 got 0 ratings, which, of course, is what liberals would expect to get: http://www.conservative.org/new_ratings/1971/sen_riwy.html
Posted by: portb71 at March 24, 2005 04:04 PM
