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Byrd Unapologetic About 'Secret Hold' on Spending Bill
Arizona Daily Star ^ | 9-1-06 | Cox News Service

Posted on 09/01/2006 6:17:55 AM PDT by nancyvideo

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To: Zack Nguyen
Exactly why the Republican leadership failed to defy Senator Byrd's hold I don't know.

Because a Republican also had a hold on it, so it was mutually agreeable?

21 posted on 09/01/2006 6:35:14 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (Said the perpetually dejected Mets fan.)
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To: Zack Nguyen
No mystery to it. The GOP has no leadership. They wouldn't take sides in a marbles shoot-off.
22 posted on 09/01/2006 6:35:43 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: TomGuy

This is a perfect example of why no senator from either party should ever get close to the WH, what a terrible precendent that would be.


23 posted on 09/01/2006 6:37:36 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Brilliant

I predicted Stevens or Byrd. Looks like I was right on both counts.


24 posted on 09/01/2006 6:41:00 AM PDT by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
The GOP has no leadership.

This would be a good time for some GOP presidential hopefuls to step forward and take this call for action off hold.
25 posted on 09/01/2006 6:48:07 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Bubba M. Aurelius

Yikes! We are full of these types....no room for more!!


26 posted on 09/01/2006 6:48:57 AM PDT by jch10
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To: P-40

Don't count Wimp Frist among em.


27 posted on 09/01/2006 6:49:50 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: P-40

A bipartisan hold.


28 posted on 09/01/2006 6:51:28 AM PDT by sportutegrl (A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
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To: markoman

Double Secret Hold!

29 posted on 09/01/2006 6:57:03 AM PDT by JOE6PAK (FAKE, but ACCURATE!)
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To: nancyvideo

So why can't the conservatives (or liberals) just adopt this as a routine strategy and put secret holds on all legislation they don't like that the opposition proposes?


30 posted on 09/01/2006 7:11:02 AM PDT by ZGuy
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To: Grampa Dave

Lol, that's funny. Byrd is certainly a piece of work.


31 posted on 09/01/2006 7:24:24 AM PDT by khnyny (Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.- Winston Churchill)
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To: mariabush

You are really behind times. Now,we name everything in West Virginia "the ALan Mollohan" building, highway, school, etc.


32 posted on 09/01/2006 7:56:41 AM PDT by Bushiefan
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To: Bushiefan

Thanks for catching me up. I won't make that mistake again.

LOL!


33 posted on 09/01/2006 8:07:26 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: ZGuy

So why can't the conservatives (or liberals) just adopt this as a routine strategy and put secret holds on all legislation they don't like that the opposition proposes?



Just because the left engages in secret, slimy behaviour
doesn't mean it's acceptable. I like to think onservatives act from principle instead of the 'win at all cost' behaviour of the left.


34 posted on 09/01/2006 8:41:07 AM PDT by nancyvideo (nancyvideo)
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