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BYRD WP OP-ED: Factually inaccurate, inconsistent with his voting record (Dirty Sheets)
Via Rush Limbaugh ^
| 3/01/05
| John Cornyn
Posted on 03/04/2005 11:28:30 AM PST by CT CONSERVATIVE
Sen. Byrd said that restoring Senate tradition “could rob a senator of the right to speak out against an overreaching executive branch or a wrongheaded policy. It could destroy the Senate's very essence -- the constitutional privilege of free speech and debate.” But history—and Sen. Byrd’s own actions—prove otherwise.
In fact, Sen. Byrd is often credited with pioneering the Senate procedure he now derides as a denial of free speech and a threat to our liberties. Recall that it was Sen. Byrd who led the charge to establish new Senate precedents in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1987 - including a number of precedents that were designed specifically to stop filibusters and other delay tactics that were previously authorized under Senate rules or prior precedents:
(Excerpt) Read more at cornyn.senate.gov ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: byrd
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Major hat tip to Rush who mentioned this today
To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Rush still is...and will always be da big Kahuna!
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:32:44 AM PST
by
Lekker 1
("Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value"-Ferdinand Foch, French War College, 1911)
To: Waywardson; Perelandra; JayWolfe
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:35:56 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Freedom. Brought to you by the grace of God and the Red, White and Blue...)
To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Great read! I heard it on Rush today also, bless his heart. Everyone needs to read it.
To: traderrob6; kingattax
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:39:02 AM PST
by
CT CONSERVATIVE
(Fight Crime: Shoot Back)
To: CT CONSERVATIVE
A tip of my hat to John Cornyn, my US Senator.
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:40:46 AM PST
by
RightWingConspirator
(Glad that Ted the Boorish Drunk, Hitlery the Witch and John Fonda/Fraud Kerry are not my senators.)
To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Senator Pork's position is whatever is to his graft grabbing agenda. He has, and will always have, a pass from the media swine.
Dirty sheets Senator Pork is longing to return to the hog feeding, and is willing to be the front man in every effort to poke Republicans in the eye.
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:41:17 AM PST
by
TUX
(Domino effect)
To: RightWingConspirator
Wouldn't want to trade a Dodd and Lieberman for Cronyn?..LOL
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:41:45 AM PST
by
CT CONSERVATIVE
(Fight Crime: Shoot Back)
To: RightWingConspirator
We are on the verge of recruiting an AWESOME candidate to defeat Byrd.
More to follow SOON...
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:42:33 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Freedom. Brought to you by the grace of God and the Red, White and Blue...)
To: RightWingConspirator
I like your Senator. You're blessed...
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:43:32 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Freedom. Brought to you by the grace of God and the Red, White and Blue...)
To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Hell, I do you one better, I'll even throw in a Shays!
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:43:35 AM PST
by
marlon
To: OXENinFLA; Mo1; onyx; Howlin; cyborg; nopardons
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:47:48 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(You have a God given right to be an atheist)
To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Sheesh! He's such a turkey to say it mildly.
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:52:05 AM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: BigSkyFreeper; EternalVigilance
He is so full of himself.
He needs a sound defeating.
I think some folks in WVA is ready to retire him.
He's such an embarrassment....
but he's Pork King.
Hope EV has a candidate in mind that'll can/WILL win.
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:53:23 AM PST
by
onyx
(Henry Kissinger: Asked if SoS Rice calls him, replied, "no never, she doesn't need advice.")
To: onyx
Senator Byrd: Racist Pig: The Other "white meat"
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:54:46 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(You have a God given right to be an atheist)
To: BigSkyFreeper
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:57:20 AM PST
by
onyx
(Henry Kissinger: Asked if SoS Rice calls him, replied, "no never, she doesn't need advice.")
To: onyx
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posted on
03/04/2005 11:59:49 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(You have a //coo-coo// God given right //Dean Scream// to be an //Hello?// atheist)
To: EternalVigilance
A West Virginia Senator must be older than death and very white.
Let me be the first to guess,West Virginia native Don Knotts?
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:00:37 PM PST
by
Republican Red
(DU: ''Reality sucks. That's the problem. We want another reality.'')
To: BigSkyFreeper
Robert KKKKKK Byrd in formal attire
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:01:49 PM PST
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
To: EternalVigilance
We are on the verge of recruiting an AWESOME candidate to defeat Byrd.
Well, get it done.
I'll donate money to defeat that old buzzard.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:01:51 PM PST
by
onyx
(Henry Kissinger: Asked if SoS Rice calls him, replied, "no never, she doesn't need advice.")
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