Posted on 12/19/2005 9:32:34 AM PST by John Semmens
Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd (W. Va.) warned that he would bring the U.S. Senate to a standstill if Republicans try to outlaw filibusters on judicial nominations.
“If they want a fight, let them try," Byrd said. "I’m 88-years-old. I was there when we used the filibuster to block those bills giving civil rights to Nigras,” Byrd said. “I’m not afraid of these Republican pantywaists. I rode with the Klan in the days when men were men.”
The filibuster is a tactic used to indefinitely prolong debate on the Senate floor. Democrats have already used the filibuster to block some of Bush’s choices of conservatives to serve as judges on lower courts.
Byrd is regarded as a master of prolonged inane remarks. This makes him one of the Democrats’ most potent weapons against legislative action.
(Excerpt) Read more at azconservative.org ...
We are one heart-attack away from adding to our majority in Senate.
Adding "Memorial" to everything named after him in WV would bust the state budget.
Amen to that. Then, we can strip the WV landscape of this vile beasts memory by expunging his name from every public work that bears it.
Ya mean just like Byrd filubustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.