A disgusting vat of filth that no self-respecting intelligent person would wade into.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
As I said, Byrd is a scumbag. But when an R talks about earmarks, and his immediate thought is to point to a Dem... well, it suggests to me that that R has not exactly recognized that the enemy is within, too.

And I think you mean Don "Bridges to Nowhere" Young.

I just said Byrd because he is the oldest and most notorious. You can stand almost anywhere in West Virginia and see his name on something. That is why I refer to him as "his porkness". However, I could just have easily said Ted Stevens. He just hasn't had as much time to match Byrd's record.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
What do you think he does when the left tries to undermine America or sell out Israel's future to the terrorists?

See? Now you've made him cry again.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Byrd is a klansman and virulent racist, but I guess its okay for the Dems if he brings home the bacon.

I don't think anyone here has the oppornity to vote for or against Byrd. Clearly, he's okay with West Virginians. Beyond that, I don't know what the rest of the party can do. Maybe if the Republicans ran a decent candidate against him?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Spanky
I just said Byrd because he is the oldest and most notorious. You can stand almost anywhere in West Virginia and see his name on something.

Does he brand his constituents like his forebears did with their slaves?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by taxwonk
See? Now you've made him cry again.

When the left of America, Weurope and the commies in the UN succeed in getting Israel to trade its security buffers for "peace" and a year or so later the Arab world launches the "final final solution" will you and your comrades at the DNC apologise or somehow will it be Bush's fault?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
I don't think anyone here has the oppornity to vote for or against Byrd. Clearly, he's okay with West Virginians. Beyond that, I don't know what the rest of the party can do. Maybe if the Republicans ran a decent candidate against him?

Take him out the leadership and call him what he is. It seems the Dems have no trouble making gratiutious deragatory remarks about Bush, and yet when they have a klansman and a serial rapist/sexual harasser in their own party leadership, somehow those minour little transgressions get a pass. But Bush, he's an idiot!!! Makes sense.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
I don't think anyone here has the oppornity to vote for or against Byrd. Clearly, he's okay with West Virginians. Beyond that, I don't know what the rest of the party can do. Maybe if the Republicans ran a decent candidate against him?

the rest of the country stepped in and told the South it had to give up slavery and later segregation. I bet they both would have gotten voted in in 1960s Alabama or Ms. Republicans stepped in and said it didn't matter what the vote was, we're changing stuff. Like we did in Iraq.

Why not just censure him out of the Senate?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
the rest of the country stepped in and told the South it had to give up slavery and later segregation. I bet they both would have gotten voted in in 1960s Alabama or Ms. Republicans stepped in and said it didn't matter what the vote was, we're changing stuff. Like we did in Iraq.

Why not just censure him out of the Senate?

HOTD.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
HOTD.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Penske_Account

Hank of the Day, I'm guessing, though I always preferred the expression, The Full Chinaski.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Hank of the Day, I'm guessing, though I always preferred the expression, The Full Chinaski.

Ah, yes......although the latter reference is a bit crudely risque, and I would ask, as the fair and balanced mod of this catbox, to please keep it clean it, after all this is a family values board.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
the rest of the country stepped in and told the South it had to give up slavery and later segregation. I bet they both would have gotten voted in in 1960s Alabama or Ms. Republicans stepped in and said it didn't matter what the vote was, we're changing stuff. Like we did in Iraq.

Why not just censure him out of the Senate?

The Republicans stepped in and stopped segregation?

That's a joke, right? I mean, everyone knows that's why the Dems lost the South -- and that Repubs joyfully played the race card to benefit from that. It's why your party is a captive of the South today.

I'll give you Lincoln, though. I mean, 150 years ago the Republican Party was a fine institution.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Spanky
Clinton shut down the government

Once again -- blame it on the Dems.

Clinton refused to sign the ridiculous stopgap measure that Gingrich & Co. sent. And, if you'll recall, one reason Gingrich took such a ridiculously hard line was because Clinton didn't let him sit at the front of the plane.

In the end, though, the Rs did us all a favor with these tactics. They reminded the country that, despite all the right-wing anti-government rhetoric, there really is a lot to like about the federal government.

Unfortunately, once the Rs realized that the voters didn't really support their "revolution," but were just voting against incumbents who had lost their ethics and effectiveness, the Repubs reacted like the leaders of many failed revolutions -- they became all about securing power.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
The Republicans stepped in and stopped segregation?

That's a joke, right? I mean, everyone knows that's why the Dems lost the South -- and that Repubs joyfully played the race card to benefit from that. It's why your party is a captive of the South today.

Brown v. Board (1954). President Eisenhower.

I'll give you Lincoln, though. I mean, 150 years ago the Republican Party was a fine institution.

and a SF political mindset, was like groovy and true, in 1967.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Brown v. Board (1954). President Eisenhower.

Wait. Eisenhower had a vote on the Supreme Court? Or are you implying that Eisenhower could have done something to stop the Court from ruling the way they did?

How many of the Supremes were Republican appointees in '54? How did they vote?