January 20, 2005
THEY ALWAYS DID HATE THOISE LITTLE GIRLS FROM BIRMINGHAM...:
Pelosi Defends Ex-Klansman's Assault on Condi (NewsMax.com, 1/20/05)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi found herself on the defensive Thursday morning over the decision by Senate Democrats to put former Ku Klux Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd, in charge of efforts to derail the confirmation of Secretary of State-nominee Condoleezza Rice."I don't think that whatever Sen. Byrd is doing has anything to do with his sad past," Pelosi told WWRL radio hosts Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. Instead, said the San Francisco Democrat, the one-time Grand Kleagel was acting out of concern that the advise and consent role of the Senate in presidential appointments was being overlooked.
In a move that was seen by many as an insult to the first black woman ever appointed Secretary of State, Sen. Byrd announced his decision to hold up her confirmation late Wednesday, saying it needed more debate before the full Senate.
He just wants to make sure she paid her poll tax and passed the literacy test... Posted by Orrin Judd at January 20, 2005 10:41 AM
Why are people on the left the only ones worthy of receiving such absolution?
Posted by: Dave W. at January 20, 2005 2:27 PMQuem Iupiter perdere vult, dementat prius. (He whom Jupiter wants to destroy, is first struck with madness).
The senile old fool Byrd fits this description quite well.
Posted by: Peter at January 20, 2005 4:04 PMConsidering OJ's opinions on the voting process, I say he's endorsing the placement of Sen. Byrd.
Posted by: Chris Durnell at January 20, 2005 4:54 PMI think the poll tax (say $50 to register) is a good idea. Filters out the unserious, the trailer trash etc. Same with the literacy test.
Posted by: h-man at January 20, 2005 7:00 PMYou can bet that those folks who follow this farce through the MSM, will not be reminded of the Grand Kleagel's past.
P.S. A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income). . . The word poll [originally] meant "head", hence the name poll tax for a per-person tax. . . Since "going to the polls" is a common idiom for voting (deriving, of course, from the fact that early voting involved head-counts), a new folk etymology has supplanted any knowledge of the phrase's true origins in America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax
Its still not a bad idea.
How does a minority party senator, from a state where animal husbandry is not merely a subject at ag school but a lifestyle decision, get a veto power over the nominee of a president from the majority party. Just roll the old bastard in the hallway and have the damn vote.
Posted by: Bart at January 21, 2005 2:06 PM