Sunday, June 19, 2005
Excuse me?
A Washington Post quote on Senator Byrd:
"Throughout a half-century on Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) has twice held the premier leadership post in the Senate, helped win ratification of the Panama Canal treaty, squeezed billions from federal coffers to aid his home state, and won praise from liberals for his opposition to the war in Iraq and his defense of minority party rights in the Senate." (Emphasis mine.)
Byrd does not defend "minority party rights." He never spoke up for these rights when he was in the majority and he was well known as a ham-fisted Majority leader decades ago. He is defending the power of the Democratic minority. It is unthinkable that he would be supporting the filibuster if he was in the majority today.
The Senator is a hypocrite and a tumor on the body politic. And that becomes evident without editorializing. All the Post needs to do is accurately report the facts.
"Throughout a half-century on Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) has twice held the premier leadership post in the Senate, helped win ratification of the Panama Canal treaty, squeezed billions from federal coffers to aid his home state, and won praise from liberals for his opposition to the war in Iraq and his defense of minority party rights in the Senate." (Emphasis mine.)
Byrd does not defend "minority party rights." He never spoke up for these rights when he was in the majority and he was well known as a ham-fisted Majority leader decades ago. He is defending the power of the Democratic minority. It is unthinkable that he would be supporting the filibuster if he was in the majority today.
The Senator is a hypocrite and a tumor on the body politic. And that becomes evident without editorializing. All the Post needs to do is accurately report the facts.
