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More on Frist/Byrd debate:
Even after several minutes of debating Frist, “Byrd did not let up. Majority Whip [Mitch] McConnell (R-KY) took the floor and interjected that having votes on nominees follows an important precedent. ‘I’ll be glad to take you on both,’ Byrd said, and continued his verbal assault. Each time Frist tried to sum up, Byrd added another comment. Finally, a smiling Frist walked over to Byrd, shook his hand, and backed off the floor.” (CongressDaily, sub. req’d)
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That’s one tough, old bastard. He kicks ass and that’s what is needed in the Democratic party. Tough sonsabitches that don’t back down, kick ass and don’t bother taking names. All their names are mud, anyway.
December 13th, 2005 at 10:42 ami don’t know why frist shook his hand. the only thing i can think is that frist had just collected on a bet he’d had that no-one could make him look a bigger dumbass than he already is. good work Byrd!
December 13th, 2005 at 11:00 amI listened to this debate. It was incredible. Byrd took Frist to school.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:23 am#1 You need more former Klansmen in the party? You guys are in more trouble than I thought.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:41 amPuh-leeze! Byrd is an old fool. Frist has the votes so why not give the out of touch, old, KKKer a handshake. Byrd is reason #1 why the left is bleeding – they are so 1970. The GOP doesn’t have to make idle threats – we have the votes.
#1 – Byrd knows alot about filibustering considering he lead one against civil rights. Byrd also dropped a n-bomb on Fox in 2001. Please use Byrd to advance your cause – you will only ensure defeat. FOOL!
December 13th, 2005 at 11:53 am#5 – the bigger the smear, the bigger the fear. Keep showing your hand. Oh, and keep up Jesus’ good work, He would be proud of you, right?
December 13th, 2005 at 12:21 pmWhen a former KKKer appears liberal, then you know you are in Bushco Fascist America.
December 13th, 2005 at 12:30 pmHe’s a former KKK, Bush is a former drunk. They’re both in power. Byrd still took Frist to school.
December 13th, 2005 at 12:38 pm“You need more former Klansmen in the party? You guys are in more trouble than I thought.
Comment by Ryan Neato”
The democrats have ‘former’ klansmen, unlike the republicans like you who require their membership be current…
December 13th, 2005 at 1:19 pm#6 – then you people must be scared shitless considering the daily invective I find on this site.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:20 pm#6 – also, isn’t the definition of smear passing false info. Nothing I said about Byrd is false.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:21 pmC-BS,
Unlike republican morons, we forgive fools who recant their failures. Bush wouldn’t even admit he was a cokehead and apologize for it, at least Byrd was man enough to say he’d been foolish. Republicans by contrast hide their failures behind lies of innocence – as I’m sure you have a personal habit yourself of doing…
December 13th, 2005 at 1:21 pm#12 – Byrd said the n-word on live television and filibustered civil rights for the history books. Whatever George W. sniffed was in private – his personal life, as libbies like saying – and the only evidence you have is hearsay. NEXT!
December 13th, 2005 at 1:27 pmActually heresay comes from 3rd parties, not first hand witnesses. First hand witnesses have said they were there when bush snorted – so you lie.
As for what Byrd said, he actually said “white n-bomb” referring specifically to white people, and referring to the derogatory term often used to describe someone of a specific set of ‘behaviors’ and not a race, so you are misrepresenting the event as republican liars always do…
This term is used extensively in west virginia to describe republican rednecks like yourself. I don’t like the term personally, but it isn’t a ‘racial’ term, it is a socio-economic slur.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:31 pm#14 – sure, if Trent Lott said white n-er you would say the same thing.
Fine – I will stop trashing Byrd and look at the content of his argument. The party that controls the White House and the Senate should not have to cater to the minority on judges when the same was not done for them in the 1993-94 period when the reverse held true. Democrats appointed who they wanted and barring anything that would make them unfit, they were approved with little noise.
Now, even though Democrats have bled seats over this very issue, they insist on Bush appointing judges acceptable to Ralph Neas and Hollywood. It’s not going to happen. Republicans would be crazy to cave – they will lose their majority if they do.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:37 pm#17
December 13th, 2005 at 1:41 pmYet, you do it all day long to those who think you are an idiot. Hmmmm
C-BS
Byrd recanted his racist past.
Interesting to note that Strom Thurmond changed from Democrat to Republican when the Democratic party began to embrace the civil rights laws and work for the oppressed people in America.
Funny, poor ‘ole Strom never said “Oh, by the way, I’m sorry for all my racist remarks in the past.”
By the way, does C-BS stand for “Conservative B.S.”?
December 13th, 2005 at 1:43 pm#18 – considering you don’t have an answer for either argument I posed to you, I don’t think it’s me who is an idiot.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:44 pm#19 – interesting that Thurmond is dead and new era of conservatism is emerging. Contrast that with the 88 year old Klansman Byrd, aka, the conscience of the Democratic Party.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:45 pm#16,
Interesting that the Reps want to push the issue “Everyone deserves an up or down vote!”
Why didn’t they feel that way about Harriet Myers? Could it be because they only want “up or down votes” on nominees that pass their extreme litmus test??? Hmmmm…..
Lets not get into the number of nominees that they blocked procedurally dring Pres. Clinton’s term.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:55 pm#22 – politics isn’t always fair. However, technically, Miers removed herself. She would have failed a floor vote by the liberal Schumer’s own admission. AND the GOP may have bottled up some of Clinton’s noms, that is a priveledge of the majority.
The most striking litmus test Miers failed was qualifications. (Which explains why Harry Reid supported her.)
December 13th, 2005 at 2:00 pm#21,
Oh yes! The new ‘conservatism’ of:
1 – Borrow and spend our way into debt for years and years to come! Make sure our great-great-grandchildren have to pay off the debt we are racking up!
2 – Support the troops by slashing the budget of the Veterans Department!
3 – Cutting taxes on the top one percent of the nation and making sure the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) starts to cover more of the middle class!
4 – Under-fund the “No child left behind” legislation by hundreds of billions of dollars!
5 – Pres. Clinton: “It wasn’t that he had sex, it was that he lied about it!” Pres. Bush: “Weapons of Mass Destruction!” (coff-coff-LIE)
Oh, yeah. I’m sure you’re proud as punch over the new conservative era. I’m sure you’ll understand if I refer to it as the “conservative error”.
December 13th, 2005 at 2:05 pmIt never ceases to amaze me the vitrol that can spewed out of the mouth of a righ wing nut! Lest we forget just how many judges the right wing held up confirmation of or never reached the floor of the senate for that almighty up or down vote.
Each side has it’s own playbook and frankly neither one is very good. The problem with Alito is not so much he’s conservative as it is he lies, and does not hold himself accountable for much of anything. Unless of course you consider his code word strict constructionist rants!
December 13th, 2005 at 2:05 pm#25 – Alito is a liar???? If you make character an issue in his hearing, it will backfire. The right-wing base already has plans to question the character of those who attack him – Ted Kennedy, Durbin and Biden – come to mind. This process will get ugly if liberals wish. Conservatives want a fair hearing free of character assasination, but we can arrange otherwise.
#24 – so, you’re not a republican!
December 13th, 2005 at 2:09 pm#23 You’re correct. The party in power gets to make the rules on hoe to treat the party not-in-power. So when the party in power starts to act like power-hungry fools, then when they get kicked out of power, who do they have to blame?
Well, one thing is for certain, they won’t take responsibility for their own actions and blame themselves. heaven forbid! When they say “take responsibility for your actions”, they really mean “We’re going to blame you for being wrong, and we’ll blame you for us being wrong!”
Of course, it was foolish for anyone to support Harriet Meyers. It was the height of foolishness for her to be nominated in the first place. I guess that makes Pres. Bush the commander-in-chief of fools!
December 13th, 2005 at 2:15 pmLOL, oh yes bring up Chappaquidick! If that does not show desparate you right wing nuts are nothing ever will
December 13th, 2005 at 2:24 pm#26, Of course I’m not a Republican! I spent four years in the US Army. Once I got out and saw how badly the Republicans were actually treating the working class, I couldn’t count myself among the sheeple anymore. I stopped saying “ditto” and starting thinking for myself. Original thought is a great liberator from the rhetoric and swallowing the “party line” hook line & sinker.
Do I agree with the Democrats 100%? Of course not! That would be like saying you agree with the Republicans gutting the funding of the Veterans Administration when we’re increasing their workload from the last two wars we’ve fought this century! Even I know you are not that much of a lemming!
I do, however, believe that the Democrats are the best solution to the Republican party that is drunk on power and holds itself to no standards.
December 13th, 2005 at 2:25 pmYou know you have ‘em scared when they bring out Kennedy bashing. I think that darn Van Buren had something to do with it to.
December 13th, 2005 at 4:22 pmC-BS (NeD)
December 13th, 2005 at 4:42 pmHey, KRP won’t be at the hearing. Geez, you have latched onto this man’s teets like a starving baby. That’s how we know it’s you, NeD. You are transparent. Anyway, shave.
Now, even though Democrats have bled seats over this very issue, they insist on Bush appointing judges acceptable to Ralph Neas and Hollywood. It’s not going to happen. Republicans would be crazy to cave – they will lose their majority if they do.
Comment by C-BS
It is going to happen because although most americans who want it to happen have no idea who Ralph Neas is, they all know about Hollywood and wonder why you have switched from the one meme “the Jews control it” to this one, “the liberals control it”. Both memes are as ridiculous as you are. The country is just not what you, a radical minority, wants it to be. You are always free to leave. We don’t put up walls here to keep people in any more than we do to keep them out. That’s America. Love it or leave it. Make our day and do the latter.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:29 pmRepublicans would be crazy to cave – they will lose their majority if they do.
Comment by C-BS
You ought to pay more attention to CBS. You pretty much already have. I guessed you missed it since you have to spend so much time memorizing your talking points rather than read actual news sites. I think it may not be long before a delegation of your own party make a trip down to the WH to tell Bush it’s time to get out of Dodge. Not unlike the trip they made to see Nixon, but in this case, it will just be about getting out of Iraq. The eviction from his current home is still a possibility. Damn! I know you won’t show up under that name after Nov. 2006 but I will spot you under any name you use, assuming you haven’t blown your brains out, like IRI.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:39 pmYa know, it all comes down to: We were told there were WMD’s. There isn’t. We were told of a link between Saddam and al quaeda. There isn’t. We were told about aluminum tubes being uranium grade. They weren’t. We were told Iraq would greet the US as liberators. We were not.
So shut the hell up about an old guy named byrd, and another republican under investigation.
Get your loud mouth off the boards, and go back to your own version of reality; it’s obviously such a warm, compassionate, place to be…I can see why someone would be so concerned over an old man’s past and racial relations, when there are hundreds of thousands of homeless people after Katrina…whether just a perceived lack of interest by the Govt because of race, or not, these people need help.
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