Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The Verdict is in on KKK Bobby Tyrd: He's a Moron
Bobby Tyrd (D-KKK) of West Virginia ("soon to be called `Bobby Tyrd Land'") has been making an utter fool of himself as of late, cavorting with the likes of Mooreon.org and crying that ending his precious filibuster will be the end of the country as we know it. Fortunately, Tyrd is enough of a pedantic old fart that he doesn't realize that when people say things they get recorded and remembered years later - and Tyrd is stunned because he has no memory of what he did this morning, much less years ago. And when he was Majority Leader (those sickening years of woe when Downies did control something) Tyrd made it a point to try to get rid of the filibuster - because the minority was trying to stop what the majority wanted to do with 40 votes instead of 50. Now that Tyrd is in the minority, that filibuster is something he wants to keep - and he decries the end of the America if the Republicans get rid of it for judicial nominations only:
The Byrd precedent is for the birds
Check out what Factcheck.org said about the filibuster controversy and why liberals are liars of the worst sort:
A Fictional View of the Filibuster
And check out of the side of the article a letter from "Ralph" Neas, one of the most disgusting liberals who tries to derail every conservative jurist from being confirmed, and how Factcheck found his claims riddled with "misleading" statements. Whoa! A liberal trying to mislead people? Stop the presses!
The Downies are in a hole here and they know it. And poor KKKer Tyrd is now so old he there is a danger of his becoming a laughingstock like the rest of his ridiculous party. The voters of West Virginia need to send him packing - preferably to a nursing home he probably had paid for with federal funds and named after himself.
Bobby Tyrd (D-KKK) of West Virginia ("soon to be called `Bobby Tyrd Land'") has been making an utter fool of himself as of late, cavorting with the likes of Mooreon.org and crying that ending his precious filibuster will be the end of the country as we know it. Fortunately, Tyrd is enough of a pedantic old fart that he doesn't realize that when people say things they get recorded and remembered years later - and Tyrd is stunned because he has no memory of what he did this morning, much less years ago. And when he was Majority Leader (those sickening years of woe when Downies did control something) Tyrd made it a point to try to get rid of the filibuster - because the minority was trying to stop what the majority wanted to do with 40 votes instead of 50. Now that Tyrd is in the minority, that filibuster is something he wants to keep - and he decries the end of the America if the Republicans get rid of it for judicial nominations only:
The Byrd precedent is for the birds
What do the deregulation of natural gas, the attachment of legislative amendments to appropriations bills, a defense authorization bill and the nomination of a U.S. ambassador to El Salvador have in common?
Answer: They all were resolved by a simple majority vote in the U.S. Senate under procedures altered by then-Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.).
And now the crafty Byrd is rewriting history. He recently denounced Republican consideration of a parliamentary maneuver designed to clear the way for a simple majority vote on President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
In blasting the GOP's so- called "nuclear option," Byrd invoked Hitler, Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy - drawing condemnation from Jewish leaders.
Beyond Byrd's rhetoric, now a staple among the Howard Dean-led Democrats, it is worth noting that Byrd is condemning Republicans for considering using a tactic that he himself used four times during his tenure as majority leader. And he is hardly alone in showing hypocrisy on the issue. Various other Democratic senators are now decrying potential tactics they have approved in the past.
The facts on Byrd's hypocrisy are made clear in a recently published article in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, "The Constitutional Option to Change Senate Rules and Procedures: A Majoritarian Means to Overcome the Filibuster."
In their analysis, authors Martin A. Gold and Dimple Gupta detail how Byrd, from 1979 to 1987, initiated four precedents that allowed a simple majority to change Senate procedures.
Check out what Factcheck.org said about the filibuster controversy and why liberals are liars of the worst sort:
A Fictional View of the Filibuster
A $5-million TV ad campaign by People for the American Way portrays the Senate filibuster as a noble tool of American democracy. The ad uses footage from Frank Capra's classic 1939 movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" - a famous scene in which the hero, played by James Stewart, engages in a 23-hour filibuster to prevent his expulsion from the US Senate on trumped-up corruption charges.
Real-life filibusters are another matter, however. They can be used for good or evil. In fact, segregationist Southern senators used filibusters to preserve the poll tax and block civil rights and anti-lynching legislation for generations. Among the real-life practitioners were the late Senators Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi.
And check out of the side of the article a letter from "Ralph" Neas, one of the most disgusting liberals who tries to derail every conservative jurist from being confirmed, and how Factcheck found his claims riddled with "misleading" statements. Whoa! A liberal trying to mislead people? Stop the presses!
The Downies are in a hole here and they know it. And poor KKKer Tyrd is now so old he there is a danger of his becoming a laughingstock like the rest of his ridiculous party. The voters of West Virginia need to send him packing - preferably to a nursing home he probably had paid for with federal funds and named after himself.
