channeling his inner piaf, an interesting omission in this column from USA Today "Robert Byrd, the longest-serving member of the Senate, counts only a few regrets in his 47-year career: filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act, voting to expand the Vietnam War and backing airline deregulation. This week he added a new one: having joined the stampede in 2001 that passed the dubiously named USA Patriot Act weeks after the 9/11 attacks." http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20...vmwHzas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YWFzYnA2BHNlYwM3NDI-
une petite, but leaving out the KKK is kinda like forgetting you were a member of the nazi party, non?
Oh so you started the thread just to bash Byrd and not to discuss the article? or the passing of the patriot act? okay, go on with your bad self.
You missed the first two paragraphs... here, I'll post them for you... Byrd is clearly talking about his career as an elected official, not his life regrets. Good try though. The strategy of not posting the article almost worked.
But it is so much more fun to twist things away from their original intent as long as it gets to be a personal attack on the other side.
and i freely admit, the point of the thread was to bash byrd, who deserves it for trying to sweep his past under the rug. bon homme de paille, tho rimmy.
He wasn't trying to sweep it under the rug. He mentioned voting against the civil rights act of 1964 among the regrets. It is obvious that everything he mentioned was about his senatorial record. It is fine to try and bash him, but when you have to try and twist the context of an article to do it, the argument is a little weak.
i find it disgusting that a former member of a murdering terrorist organization could be allowed to be in congress, let alone be the longest serving member. membership in a hate group like the kkk or the nazi party should automatically exclude you from public service.
Why? I find the KKK as morally repugnant as everyone else but shouldn't we allow for personal growth? The current pope was a member of the Nazi party (obligatory, I know).
