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Ok, so the Dems don't like some of Bush's judicial nominees so they have been filibustering the votes. The problem is that the Consitution says that you only need 51 votes to confirm a nominee but it takes 60 votes to end a filibuster. As a result, in order to confirm the nominee, you now need 60 votes instead of the consitutional 51. Sure, the Dems have the right to use the filibuster but it is a dirty trick that essentially changes what the constitution intended.
So, to end this situation, some Republicans have suggested the so-called "nuclear option" where you'd change the senate rules making possible to end a filibuster with only 51 votes.
Well, Sen. Byrd has again caused a controversy when he compared the Republicans to Hitler.
Well, here's what Sen. Byrd said on the senate floor on this issue:
"For the temporary gain of a handful of out of the mainstream judges, some in the Senate are ready to callously incinerate each senator, each senator, every senator's right of extended debate. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality. He never abandoned the cloak of legality. He recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made this illegality legal. And that is what the nuclear option seeks to do. Minorities have an illustrious past, full of suffering, torture, smear, and even death. Jesus Christ was killed by a majority. Columbus was smeared. Christians have been tortured."
Folks, Sen. Byrd has free speech. But his comments are way overboard IMO. We're talking about changing senate rules to limit the use of filibuster. How in the world does that have anything to do with the Holocaust? This is just way out of proportion! There is no comparison whatsoever between limiting filibustering and murdering 6 million people?
This notion that if you don't let Dems filibuster that you are trying to kill them in a Holocaust. That's just absurd and insulting.
Not to mention that Byrd was a member of the KKK. He's a fine one to speak on oppressing minorities.
So, to end this situation, some Republicans have suggested the so-called "nuclear option" where you'd change the senate rules making possible to end a filibuster with only 51 votes.
Well, Sen. Byrd has again caused a controversy when he compared the Republicans to Hitler.
Well, here's what Sen. Byrd said on the senate floor on this issue:
"For the temporary gain of a handful of out of the mainstream judges, some in the Senate are ready to callously incinerate each senator, each senator, every senator's right of extended debate. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality. He never abandoned the cloak of legality. He recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made this illegality legal. And that is what the nuclear option seeks to do. Minorities have an illustrious past, full of suffering, torture, smear, and even death. Jesus Christ was killed by a majority. Columbus was smeared. Christians have been tortured."
Folks, Sen. Byrd has free speech. But his comments are way overboard IMO. We're talking about changing senate rules to limit the use of filibuster. How in the world does that have anything to do with the Holocaust? This is just way out of proportion! There is no comparison whatsoever between limiting filibustering and murdering 6 million people?
This notion that if you don't let Dems filibuster that you are trying to kill them in a Holocaust. That's just absurd and insulting.
Not to mention that Byrd was a member of the KKK. He's a fine one to speak on oppressing minorities.
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