Senator Robert Byrd (subtly) compares Bush to Hitler.

[Cyrano]

Senator Robert Byrd gave another outstanding speech on the floor of the senate. It was about the Republican's intent to ram through Bush's lunatic judges while telling the Democrats to fuck off.

The most interesting part of Byrd's speech is his comparison of what Bush and the Republicans are trying to do, to what Hitler and the Nazis pulled off on their way to absolute power. He of course didn't make a direct statement to that effect, but the comparison was quite obvious.

In effect, we have a United States senator warning us that that's where we're headed.

His remarks have been reprinted on smirkingchimp.com.

http://smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=20127&mode=nested&order=0

[LiberalinNC]

1. Thank God for Byrd!

Don't these assholes realize that what our guys are fighting for in Iraq is being taken away here?

[Up2Late]

2. The RW Wackos don't think it 's so subtle

Check out what I stumbled upon with Google

Byrd compares Republicans to Hitler
Former Klansman decries attempts to approve judicial nominees
Posted: March 2, 2005
2:10 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – In denouncing Republican efforts to get President Bush's judicial nominees to the floor of the Senate for an up-or-down vote, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., compared Republican tactics to Adolph Hitler's use of power in Nazi Germany.

Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, said that if the GOP were to succeed in preventing Democratic filibusters of Bush's nominees, the move would "incinerate" the rights of all senators.

As many as 10 of Bush's nominees face the threat of filibuster, including William Myers, former lead counsel at the Interior Department who is up for a seat on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Myers has majority support in the Senate, but lacks the 60 votes needed to shatter a filibuster. To get past that barrier, Republicans would like to use their majority power to change the rules.

Byrd compared the idea to Hitler's abuse of power.

"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality. He recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side," he said.

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[Cyrano]

4. Trying to tar Byrd with his KKK past is just another smear tactic.

Although everyone may not agree with me, I believe Byrd has more than atoned for his KKK membership some 50 or 60 year's ago. Republicans conveniently ignore the fact that the remnants of the KKK and their ilk, have today found a very comfortable home in the Republican party.

Byrd has become one of the country's greatest defenders of the Constitution.

But the point here is that he in fact made a Bush/Hitler connection, and no amount of mud they throw at him can change the fact that he was right.

If they want to refute him, let them use facts instead of slime.

[ragin_acadian]

7. Byrd's past is his past. He will atone for it everyday, but it is his

past. What he is talking about the The Republican Party's vision of our future. And believe me, that power hungry, greedy, selfish bunch will never atone for anything other than not getting the entire pie. Big difference.

[paineinthearse]

17. Exactly. He is not the same as he was in 1948. Similarly.....

I will never forgive what Robert MacNamara did as SoD, but I respect his making amends and atoning for his sins through his collaboration with Errol Morris for "FOG of WAR".

:puke: Rethugs are so uggggggggggggggggg!!!!

[Just Me]

9. Who do you think the neo-nazis and white supremists supported in 2004?

I'll betcha' they're even funding the attacks against this man. He's dangerous to their right-wing Republican constituents and representatives!!!

[calimary]

3. I heard a World War Two-era man speaking at this "DNC Listening Event"

I attended here in L.A. in January - about pretty much this very thing. He was one of many who stood up to speak for the allotted two minutes each. He said he was old enough to have seen and recognized the rise of fascism. And he said he was seeing it again - NOW. Made most of us in that crowded meeting hall swallow hard and suck air for a moment.

[Cyrano]

6. I think we've already passed fascism and are well on our way to

being a totalitarian country.

And unless we can get verifiable elections, what the hell is going to stop them from stealing the next one, which could well be the last one we'll see in our lifetimes.

[prodigal_green]

11. I have friends from Latin America, Spain, Germany, and

Eastern Europe. They ALL say the same thing--this country is quickly sliding into fascism. They know from experience.

[Cyrano]

13. But what can we do about it??? Any and all suggestions welcomed.

[dzika]

5. Video - Senator Byrd compares GOP Senators to Hitler's Germany - 3/2

They mentioned this on CNN this afternoon.



Video in Real Media format (2 minutes)

[Just Me]

10. He was totally convicted,...

,...and shaking mad over the Republicans right-wing tactics.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

20. Typical CNN coverage............

No Dem/Liberal rebuttal to charges made by Mehlman and RW bloggers. Why are these folks still relevant?

Go Bobby Go!

[rniel]

8. Remove the "subtly"

And you've got the next fox news headline you'll see.

[Cyrano]

12. Fox news and the rw echo chamber will be after his scalp and

I for one, hope they try.

Unlike a member of the House of Representatives, a United States senator can stand up there as long as he likes and speak his mind.

A right wing attack will bring about four years of Byrd's tirades against Bush on the floor of the senate. Even Karl Rove won't be able to shut him up.

And keep in mind that Byrd is a respected senator in both the north and the south. A lunatic fringe attack on him might be a blessing in disguise. This is a man who won't back down and will call a Nazi a Nazi.

[Just Me]

14. What most concerns me,...

,...is that he is a cold, hard target in 2006. West Virginians view him as a man who is now old enough to be let go. However, we have absolutely NO comparable replacement.

I really, really hate to lose this man during this period of corporatocracy/fascism.

[Rose Siding]

15. Dash off an e-mail. He'll be inundated by the opposition

http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html

Thank him for his voice and his perseverance.

[BigBearJohn]

16. SOMEBODY had to say it. HOORAY FOR BYRD!!!!

Don't you just LOVE that guy!!!!

HOORAY FOR BYRD!!!

[Cyrano]

18. Hooray isn't good enough. Write to him and encourage him to

continue what he's been doing for the past four years: Speaking up and calling out the corrupt Bush administration (as well as most of the Republican party) as the gangsters they are.

I don't know if the people of West Virginia will reelect him next year. But if they don't, we'll have lost the a great voice for freedom.

If you live in WV, get out there, knock on doors, and tell everyone you know that there is not much standing between us, four more years of hell, and perhaps, the very existence of American democracy.

Robert Byrd has evolved into an outstanding voice for our freedoms. Let's stand by him.

[BigBearJohn]

19. Will do!

[DemGirl7]

21. I just read that some groups are going insane over Byrd's Speech

I think it was a pro-republican Jewish group, and the Anti-Defamation League, they have big problem with it. I could see the Republican group saying it, but I don't picture the Anti-Defamation League backing the Republicans...I don't see them as a right-wing group(even though I don't much about them)aren't they one of the groups that is really Liberal? So I'm wondering if their problem is because of Byrd's past(you know what I'm talking about)I mean I saw the speech like 3 times...and I found nothing wrong with it...I'm not one of those people who calls Bush Hitler or Republicans Nazis, but I do feel that they, being Bush and his GOP buddies, for the most within the last couple of years have gotten to be somewhat similar in their actions to Nazis.