Posted on 03/13/2008 12:12:30 AM PDT by NoLibZone
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat who was a feisty self-made millionaire before he began a long career fighting big business in the Senate, died Wednesday night. He was 90.
Metzenbaum died at his home near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said Joel Johnson, his former chief of staff. No cause was given.
During 18 years on Capitol Hill, from 1977 to 1995, Metzenbaum came to be known as "Senator No" and "Headline Howard" for his abilities to block legislation and get publicity for himself.
He was a cantankerous firebrand who didn't need a microphone to hold a full auditorium spellbound while dropping rhetorical bombs on big oil companies, the insurance industry, savings and loans, and the National Rifle Association, to name just a few favorite targets.
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If you can’t say something good don’t.....
Not saying anything so do gooders won’t flame me
My late mother always told me it was impolite to speak ill of the dead, but I could make an exception in the case of this moron.
One more liberal turd to melt in hell.
Senator M was an uncle of one of my cousins in Cincinnati by marriage & so was at occasional family functions. Personally I found him quite nice (much like Kuchinich).. but a RAT is a RAT is a RAT..
I think he was the leader of the popular liberals who tried to keep Ed Meese from becoming attorney general.
People in OH are known for falling for this kind of politician periodically. Sometimes they never get enough either.
Burn in hell.
Him & Kuchinich were enough to get me to move out of Ohio back in the 80s.
Wasn’t he caught up in some kind of scandal involving the post office at the Capitol?
Maybe I’m thinking of someone else.
And he knew it was O.K. to pay people NOT to work! Thanks to those of his ilk, this state spends more money on entitlements than most.
I don’t know who brought that report out that Ohio ranks in the middle in terms of paying state income taxes. If that’s true, then we pay much more In Federal and City taxes, which of course leads to big business leaving this state, at the same time telling people who want to sit on their arses and get free (taxpayer)money to move right on in.
My mother also taught me only to speak good of the dead. So, here goes...
Howard Metzenbaum is dead.
Good.
Now why didn’t I think of that? Thanks for the smile.
His son-in-law wanted to be the first Jewish president - even changed his name to try to improve his chances. It appears that his political strategy didn’t work.
Interesting. Identified as a Democrat in the first sentence... (compare Spitzer)
“a feisty self-made millionaire” who once accused fellow Democrat John Glenn of never having held a job.
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