Nuclear Rhetoric
U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D - West Virginia) linked Senate Republicans to the Nazis for their efforts to end filibusters on judicial nominees.
“We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men,” Byrd said on Tuesday. “But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.”
Byrd then quoted historian Alan Bullock when asserting that Hitler “turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.... That is what the nuclear option seeks to do….”
“We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men,” Byrd said on Tuesday. “But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.”
Byrd then quoted historian Alan Bullock when asserting that Hitler “turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.... That is what the nuclear option seeks to do….”
posted by E.L. Lipman | 3/03/2005 06:23:00 AM
It is time for the sensible citizens of West Virginia to turn out this Senator Byrd who has outlived his usefulness. Senator Byrd's rhetoric is over the top.
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"It is time for the sensible citizens of West Virginia to turn out this Senator Byrd". Unfortunately, the sensible citizens are quite incapable since it this would require a majority.
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