I believe Sen. "KKK" Byrd is going to need to apologize for his outrageous exagerations about Republicans. His comments have taken the focus away from the actual issues and onto the rhetoric Democrats are so fond of throwing around. But Robert Byrd is poisonous even by Democratic standards and they are no longer able, thanks to the blogosphere, to hide the crazy old grandfather in the basement.
The Associated Press reports to Haaretz Israel Daily News:
Byrd, a member of the minority Democrats, was speaking in opposition to threats by the Republican majority leader to force through a rule banning use of the filibuster, a parliamentary ploy by which the minority can stall legislation, against President George W. Bush's nominations to federal court judgeships.
Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said Wednesday that Byrd's remarks showed "a profound lack of understanding as to who Hitler was," and the senator should apologize to the American people.
"It is hideous, outrageous and offensive for Senator Byrd to suggest that the Republican Party's tactics could in any way resemble those of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party," Foxman said.
In his comments Tuesday, Byrd defended the right that senators have to use filibusters, procedural delays of unlimited debate that can kill an item unless 60 of the 100 senators vote to move ahead.
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