Byrd Alert! C-Span2

[nostamj]

he's going to speak in 'morning business' in about half an hour.

it's been a while... hope he's fired UP

on edit: here's the link to his speeches

http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_speeches/byrd_speeches_2004_february/byrd_speeches_2004_february.html

[Kahuna]

1. Thanks for the heads up!

:D

[waterman]

2. Good. Thanks, hope someone is able to call it for us.

Or post a transcript. This will be good, I'm sure. Just love that guy. Really like his body language when he's talking. Throws his whole self into it.

[nostamj]

3. his speeches are usually posted on his website

and pretty quickly.

on edit: here's the link where the speech will be posted:

Byrd's Speeches

[waterman]

19. Ah, that's right... thanks!

[KoKo]

23. He's going on about the Iraq Invasion was Wrong! The Mushroom Cloud

which would come over the United States. How many lives will be lost before it's over...on how many doors will that knock fall before that war ends.

He's pointing out that not one of the 19 hijackers was from Iraq. But he says I've "never supported the Bush War.....the one with the "Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Strikes! Not one of our sons or daughters should have had to go to the Bush War.

Saying "No funds for war will be requested from Congress until AFTER the Election." He says a "budget of gimicks, canards, speciousness, sophistry, equivocation...." WOW!

He says Administration of Corporate CEO"s and Texas Oil Men. Their parents didn't have to choose between groceries and health care or weather they would lose their pension benefits of security benefits.

This administration has no idea of the plight of the average working American.

He's going on pointing out how "out of touch" they all are.

When this administration leaves office legacy will be and "Enormous Debt burden that way heavily on the Middle Class, diminished the safety net, but it won't matter to this President because he will know that His benefits and Corporate CEO's and Texas Oil Men are more comfortable than before.

[GuyFawkes]

31. Never Forget. Bird was in the KKK.

Yes he was. Why does he not have to answer for this discracful chapter in his life. I have never heard him apologize for hit.

[nostamj]

32. how surprising that you can't spell a four-letter name correctly

Byrd has repudidiated his YOUTHFUL association with the clan.

the shit people like you still try to throw is pathetic.

BYRD railed against the Iraq War
BYRD railed against the tax cuts

you, are really not even worth responding to.

IGNORE

[ninkasi]

35. Ever noticed how helpful

some new members become when they think they can point out something they think is negative about the Dems? Especially on a thread where we are praising Sen. Byrd. It never ceases to amaze me. Byrd is a national treasure.

[nostamj]

36. but... they still get a BIG HELLO!!

:shrug: (maybe one should read the post before making the welcome??

[newyawker99]

34. Hi GuyFawkes!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[underpants]

4. Condi speaking on Reagan Legacy NOW!!!

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[buckeye1]

5. I don't like Byrd.

He voted yes on the partial birth bill. He is Bush-lite.

[nostamj]

6. "He is Bush-lite"

how ridiculous. how utterly ridiculous.

Byrd has ripped into the chimp like NO ONE ELSE in the Senate.

repeatedly. savagely.

but toss the baby with the bathwater if you want

[PATRICK]

7. Bush-lite

Let's isolate Bush from all the issues and groups he uses for one reason or the other. Those issues and groups are separate. It is the manipulation of everything for clique power and the blindness or collaboration that enables the con game that must be focused on. Anyone who has not been out on the streets protesting and raving 24/7 is Bush-lite in the broad sense.

Since when did Byrd become 100% Ted Kennedy? These are the real range of honest views that must be debated if we ever get a positive working government.

[Mattforclark]

8. tee-hee

hee-tee

haw-har

[On the Road]

14. Not Bush-Lite at All!

that's a term for triangulating Democrats who adpopt a sugar-coated GOP platform for political advantage.

Byrd is a contentious hard-core Democrat who holds some conservative traditional beliefs. Not the same things at all.

[onecitizen]

33. laughable. nt

nt

[Mattforclark]

9. Lautenberg is on now.

Talking about guns and things, I think. Yielding the floor. The senator from west virginia is up!

[nostamj]

10. BYRD is speaking now 1pm est

go go go

he's starting on the budget

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

11. Love the vest.

Go Bob Go.

[bain_sidhe]

12. Ahhh, Byrd watching... my favorite pass-time!

Snazzy vest he's got on today, isn't it? :D

[Kahuna]

27. I love that vest. He looks very dapper.

:7

[nostamj]

13. "It just keeps getting WORSE"

"A wake-up call to working americans"

[underpants]

15. "The working man is the forgotten man by this administration"

HEAR me out there.

[bain_sidhe]

16. How long does it take to count a trillion dollars?

Nice rhetorical device! At the rate of one dollar per second it was what did he say? 36 thousand years? Did I hear that right?? Typing and listening is so hard!

[BeyondGeography]

17. He hates those TAX CUTS, doesn't he?

Byrd rules the roost again.

"After the draconian spending cuts and the demise of the Social Security surplus, the President's budget proposes to borrow an additional $1.4 trillion from countries like China to pay for what? Tax cuts for the well-to-do!"

This is what we're living through, folks. How 'bout a little party unity and we save things before it's too late?

[Frank_Person]

18. Watching now! Thanks

[KennedyGuy]

20. Thank God for Byrd

finally a Democrat with some balls.

[KennedyGuy]

21. just called his office to say thanks

1-202-224-3904. They were happy to hear it.

[nostamj]

22. oh, he's HAMMERING *'s elitism

only a president who never needed overtime would cut it

"a LEGACY of ENORMOUS debt"

[Mari333]

25. Byrd...a true patriot.

wish all the Dems spoke as he does.

[KoKo]

26. Oops see my post #23 where I tried to type out his Bush Elite comments.

It posted way up when it should be down here.

[KoKo]

28. Kurt Conrad on now saying SS Cuts are taking from many to give to few

by using the payrolls to fund the SS cuts.

[bain_sidhe]

29. Amount to be borrowed from the surplus

is almost exactly equal to the cost of Bush's tax cut for the rich!

Boy, that lays bare the plan with no wiggle room, doesn't it? Steal our retirement and give it to your rich buddies, will ya? Over my dead body!! (Not that he'd mind that.)

:grr:

[Kahuna]

24. Great stuff! He really laid out *'s lies and deceptions.

God bless this man.

[1morelib]

30. Sen. Conrad's Presentation

Was chilling! Very scary. I am one of the 64% that needs to get SS to not be destitute.

Please wake up America!

[Malva Zebrina]

37. Me too

Senator Byrd is eighty five years old, and beseiged with Parkinsons. Nevertheless the quintessential gentleman debator always looks dapper , neat and sharp. He is a beacon of light in the Senate. It pains me sometimes that there is no one around there listening tohim.