Are Democrats sick to wheel in sickly ancient KKK member to vote to approve Death Panels for elderly & infirm?
And then to create public relations dust up blaming Republicans?
What crepes! And creeps too!
The UK Telegraph runs with the Democratic creepspin:
Republicans have been accused of setting a new low for etiquette in the US Senate by forcing a 92-year-old wheelchair-bound Democrat to appear three times in four days to ensure the passage of a contentious health care reform bill.
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia was wheeled in to cheers and backslaps from colleagues at 1am on Monday, then 7.30am on Tuesday and was due to make his final – and crucial – appearance this on Thursday morning at 8am.
His fragile health has caused him to miss 40 per cent of this year’s roll calls, and he has been attended by a private nurse for much of the past two years.
However, he overcame a record-breaking blizzard and even apparent prayers for his demise to provide the vital 60th vote the Democrats needed to block delaying tactics by the opposition.
Before the first of the three procedural votes was taken on Sunday, Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican of Oklahoma, said from the senate floor: "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight," he said. "That’s what they ought to pray."
Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, expressed his shock. "This statement goes too far," he said. "We are becoming more coarse and divided here … When it reaches a point where we’re praying, asking people to pray, that senators wouldn’t be able to answer the roll call, I think it has crossed the line."
Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who is a robust 79, said: "I have been worried about Senator Byrd living through the physical trauma of the past few weeks. It is an inevitable thought when you see him rolled into the chamber at 1am. Compelling Senator Byrd to vote needlessly is a new Senate low mark."
Byrd was dyed in the wool super-racist, he wasn’t just a member of the KKK, he was a serious , major LEADER fully committed to pure racism.
"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
Byrd was the fiercest opponent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was one of the Democrats who filibustered against that Act for 83 days. (Would we have had 83 days to consider this massive health care bill!) Byrd, himself, went 14 hours in one turn of the filibuster!
The man’s KKK heritage can not be ignored.
I suspect a few of the people answering do not know that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Democrat, was a former Grand Wizard in the Klu Klux Klan. It is pretty sad how far the Democrats are willing to go with this monstrosity of a bill. I still do not understand what the rush is. Why drag this old man out of bed for something that isn’t even going into effect for another 4 years?
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say wha?
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They could rename it health KKKare reform in his honor.
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0% of KKK members voted for the President last year. Most voted for his Republican counterpart.
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It was very clear how Byrd was going to vote… it was cruel of the republicans to force him to appear.
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There are no death panels.
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Oh the poor KKK member. Must be a hard life being a racist and stealing from American citizens.
More Democratic shenanigans.
And as for Arlen Spector, he can enjoy roasting in Hell with Benedict Arnold.
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I suspect a few of the people answering do not know that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Democrat, was a former Grand Wizard in the Klu Klux Klan. It is pretty sad how far the Democrats are willing to go with this monstrosity of a bill. I still do not understand what the rush is. Why drag this old man out of bed for something that isn’t even going into effect for another 4 years?
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The Democrats would not need all 60 of their senators if some of the Republicans were brave enough to vote their own minds, instead of obeying their conspiracy of obstructionism. And, throwing in the very old, and very limited, KKK involvement of Senator Byrd is an extremely cynical move. Back in those days, in the South, it was just good politics for aspiring young men to belong to the KKK. Now, people generally agree that segregation was a bad thing, but 50 years and more ago it was widely accepted. You should get your facts straight.
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i dont care who is wheeling him into congress, if you dont like it then leave and dont run again, also oh look the eurotrash are getting involved in our politics, figures, they want their socialist shit everywhere
@dsonuvagun: you call being the grand wizard of the kkk limited involvment?
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I’ve assumed the Dems have been pulling a "Weekend at Bernie’s" with the former Grand Wizard just to get through the 60 vote hurdles this week. I would not be surprised if we heard the "sad" news of his passing in the next few weeks. How will the MSM play that one? Will they call him the "Wizard of the Senate" like they called Ted Kennedy the "Lion"? If wizard means a monster who condoned the murder of citizens because of their race it’s as accurate as lion referring to a drunk who in the course of his lifetime of philandering murdered a woman. Regardless, they’ll refer to a lifetime of leeching off the tax payer and expanding federal authority far beyond any limit intended by the founders as an admirable accomplishment. They’ll even laude his health reform vote as redemption for his past leadership role in the Klan.
Dragging his crusty, useless shell of a body to the Senate floor for a vote on a bill that his party is forcing down the throats of the citizens of this country is far more humane than the treatment he condoned for citizens of this country in his younger days.
The article is wrong anyway, the crucial votes end today. The Dems could lose 10 members and still pass this garbage with Biden’s tiebreaker. They will likely lose a few in swing states anyway for the final vote. Then those Senators can say they were for the reform before they were against it.
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What’s sick is that the people of his State haven’t been able or willing to elect someone actually capable of doing the job.
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