Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WV, Dead at 92

Threedee said:
I'm not finding any Voting Rights Act other than 1965. There was a Civil Rights Act in 1968, which dealing with fair housing, and provides the kind of enforcement measures not granted through the CRA of 1866.
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Okay, once again correcting my screw-up with the actual paragraph from the article:

"Yes, it's true that Robert C. Byrd was a Klan member who said derogatory things about blacks. He was, like Strom Thurmond, a Southern Democrat, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
 
Threedee said:
That would be kind of sweet. If they're dumb enough to vote for Byrd, they're definitely dumb enough to vote for me!!

The fact is, I can accept reformed alcoholics (quitters!), addicts, criminals, misogynists, and whatnot, but not reformed politicians. If you fuck up in politics, you should be turned out and not voted back in, at least not at the same level of power. There are always plenty of people out there to replace the likes of Byrd and Thurmond. Unless there was serious risk of electing someone worse, I really can't see why they went to such lengths to keep getting re-elected...

But it will be nice to see people who condemned Trent Lott start praising the great, late Byrd for being such a great public servant...
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I can accept anybody's reform at least once. But if they turn into habitual reformers for the same misdeed, their sincerity will be called into question.

If Lott repudiated his beliefs (not just apologized for his words), I'd be happy to cut him a break, too.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Sadly, this is a thread devoted to Sen Robert Byrd and NOT devoted to how each party treats the other when a member dies.

You are certainly free to start one decrying the incivility of the Left next time
a prominent conservative dies and gets lambasted by the opposition.

I was MERELY pointing out that once again, the "family values party" that continually whines and cries and laments the loss of "the good ol days" didn't waste one single minute in grieving for the deceased.

One would think that with so many wishing for a return to "the good ol days" that we might see an attempt made at actually ACTING as people did during said "good ol days"...sadly, even that simple, old-fashioned courtesy was too much to expect.
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Yet, sadly, you tried to make it about that. And while doing so attempted to make it some "partisan" thing with a false perfectionism argument that is so clearly off-kilter that it is laughable.
 

I know it's en vogue to hate all big government liberals, but he came about in an era and from a people truly enslaved in the hill mines and enduring crushing poverty. Juxtapose this with us reagan era middle class free traders who think we have the authority to state that minimum wage laws and worker standards are unnecessary. Fuck us. He is a hero.
 
Southern Man said:
Right, that's why he threw the Constitution in the toilet. /sarcasm
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You will have even fewer rights in your neocon dystopia you dream. When corporations take over, you will have no rights. Some people learned this a hundred years ago. You're still stuck on stupid.
 
AssHatZombie said:
You will have even fewer rights in your neocon dystopia you dream. When corporations take over, you will have no rights. Some people learned this a hundred years ago. You're still stuck on stupid.
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How ironic, "stuck on stupid". You've picked up TaiChiLibtard's word: "neocon". :palm:
 
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