hezekiah jones

Originally posted by Iamthebeerking
Sickening.

Byrd's not talking about black people, Jews, or Catholics. And Byrd was the worst of the fatuous Bible bashers in the Senate after Newdow, and he was vehemently excoriated around here for his fraudulently pious grandstanding.

Hugo Black was a Klan member too, but he was also possibly the closest thing to a free speech absolutist ever to sit on the Supreme Court. So why can't he be criticized for the former, and lauded for the latter? I don't see anything sickening about that.

Originally posted by Iamthebeerking
Iraq worked out fine and will work out fine. Just because it's not a paradise today doesn't mean that the future guarantees failure.

Yeah I read the U.S. authorities are confiscating the Iraqi citizens' guns. How do you like them apples? I should go dig up a couple of Larry Pratt quotations to demonstrate some real hypocrisy.

Dr Rick

Hubble head

If Byrd is looking for pork, he picked an unusual way of showing it. Considering that the majority of people or nations who speak out against this admin pay for it dearly by not only being frozen out of the game but suffer retribution style consequences I'd have to say his words seem quite genuine this time around.

Maybe he has feelings of guilt, maybe he is fed up with all the BS he was once a part of. Whatever the case, unless you really know what these neo-cons are up to and how it affects YOU, I wouldn't be so keen on defending them and their so-called ME "visions".

Majestyk

I could say the same thing about Byrd or almost any other career politcian of either dominant political party.

hezekiah jones

What's really cool about that pic is FOX's mic front and center.

Hubble head

Really? As in they are all up to no good and trying to rule the oily world like pnac? They all worship Goebbles and Strauss and other Orwellian like ideologies?

I have to believe some of them, whether it's a McCain or a Wellstone or a Byrd, sometimes have some conscience and compassion for us little people. Sometimes.

Majestyk

Including Byrd's name in that statement would be funny if, it were not so sad. What? You think it's only the executive branch that can manipulate opinion and project a false image?

Zar

Man, I could have done a better Photoshop job than that.

emphryio

Hey Dr Rick
:notworthy An honest man. I'm sorry it's so damm rare to see someone admit they were wrong. Back in September I was also wrong about this. (Caught on a little quicker but that was just luck.)
Well I was vehementaly against this war and pointed out that Byrd is the king of pork so I guess I pass "Beerking's" test.
(wipes brow in sigh of relief)
Actually Hubble he has the most seniority in the senate. He's managed to accumulate quite a bit of power. He can afford to speak up. Now he'll try to make some backroom deal for his pork. Then he'll quiet down. (Except Bushco is so hard headed they may not play ball.)

McDiggy

I could see the anger if Byrd was from California or Texas and brought home all the bacon for some rich state, but he's from West Virginia. Our state is so pathetic and poor that there is actually a satirical movement here ala "A Modest Proposal" and "The Mouse That Roared" that wants the US to bomb our state and then, just like in every other FOREIGN land we've bombed, reconstruct our infrastructure. It's the only way we can forsee our schools being rebuilt, our citizens receiving adaquate healthcare, and our state actually gaining profit from our natural resources rather than the profits being sent off to New York to some mine owner that has never set foot in the entire state.

We are just about the most ignorant, poor, unhealthy state in the union (thankfully there is Mississippi). If it weren't for him, we'd be even worser into the dark ages because no one else gives a shit about us.