Senate Tuesday: good news, bad news

Posted on 01/24/2005 at 8:25 pm by Bob Cesca

GOOD NEWS. Tomorrow, the Senate will engage in nine hours of floor debate over the potential confirmation of Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State. The leader of the Democratic opposition will be Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Fire up the CSPAN!

BAD NEWS. The other leader of the Democratic opposition will be Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV).

Arg. By putting Byrd front and center, the Senate Democrats have set themselves up for a tangential and distracting post-debate debate in which the issue won’t be whether Condi is worthy of the post. Nope. The post-debate debate in the right-wing media will be watered down into a battle over Senator Byrd’s former KKK status and thus how the Democrats are racists for attacking Condi.

You simply don’t feed material like this to the Republicans. Especially material that allows them to make our side seem like the racists. The right-wing talkers have been griping about this for nearly a week — it’s not like the Senate Dems haven’t had some fair warning.

Oy.

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  • CharlesJ

    There was a time not long ago in American history. 1940′s, 50′s, and 60′s and even into the 70′s in the deep south when every decent self respecting white man was expected to be on good terms with the klan–any man who wasn’t was just a nigga lova–it was that simple. The Republicans are smart. Smart enough to take the sins and wrongs of those times and assign them exclusively to Robert Byrd. The Dems are so afraid of offending the almighty white man in the heartland they can’t call them out for what they were in those days. So don’t ignore history. At least Byrd admitted his wrong. But if you were to drive through the south today and ask those old geezers sitting around they still won’t admit those ties to the klan; in fact many of these old guys remain sympathetic to some parts of the Klan agenda (although their children and grandchildren are not)so it wasn’t just Byrd….wake up and smell the coffee.

  • LactarTheBanned

    Wow. So the democrats are seriously going to pick a FORMER KLANSMAN to oppose an AFRICAN AMERICAN appointment? Good god, it must be hard enough for the democrats to do this anyway, but to put a goddamned KLANSMAN up there. These are bright folks.