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ADL Bitch-Slaps Senator "Kleagle" Byrd on Hitler Comparison

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Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-03-03 3:46:03 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I ever believed that KKK people liked Hitler

Posted by JFM 2005-03-03 10:54:12 AM|| 2005-03-03 10:54:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Byrd is a 'crat, so he gets a pass. I would hope that some other Senators, from both sides of the aisle, condemn his remarks.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-03 11:08:43 AM|| 2005-03-03 11:08:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I would love to be a fly on the wall of Joe Lieberman's office, one of the few Dem Senators who has any personal honor, and who happens to be Jewish. His private comments to his staff would be "interesting".

Also, my brother-in-law, who lives in West Virginia, is Jewish, and lost cousins in the Holocaust, may have something interesting to say. I will EMail him, and report back with any cogent comments...

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-03 11:55:13 AM|| 2005-03-03 11:55:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Frist should see that WVa goes on a Kosher diet starting now.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-03 11:57:54 AM|| 2005-03-03 11:57:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The only time the Senate has ever modified its rules by the nuclear route was in 1975 when Democrat Mike Mansfield was the Senate Majority Leader. Mansfield said "We cannot allow a minority, a small group of members, to grab the Senate by the throat and hold it there." But that's exactly what is happening today.

Prior to 1975 Senate Rule XXII required two-thirds majority for cloture. A narrow majority of Senate Democrats used the so-called nuclear option to lower the threshold for invoking cloture from 67 to 60 votes, three-fifths.
BTW among the Democrats in favor of the 1975 'nuclear option' were Senators Patrick Leahy, Ted Kennedy, and Joseph Biden (present day Senate Judiciary Committee members) as well as Bob Byrd and Daniel Inouye. Anyone else smell hypocrisy here? I guess it's all a matter of whose ox is being gored.

Posted by GK 2005-03-03 2:36:43 PM|| 2005-03-03 2:36:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 There's a lot of political mileage to be gained by the Democrats putting their foot in this. I would not be surprised to see it resolved till, say November 9, 2006.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-03 2:53:42 PM|| 2005-03-03 2:53:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Good catch GK!

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-03 4:55:21 PM|| 2005-03-03 4:55:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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