Flip Flop

Isn't it funny that the sound of flip flop can be associated to a landed fish's last futile attempts to survive? Byrd is just another fish about to expire in the mire of his own making.

Byrd is rewriting history. He recently denounced Republican consideration of a parliamentary maneuver designed to clear the way for a simple majority vote on President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.

In blasting the GOP's so- called "nuclear option," Byrd invoked Hitler, Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy - drawing condemnation from Jewish leaders.

Beyond Byrd's rhetoric, now a staple among the Howard Dean-led Democrats, it is worth noting that Byrd is condemning Republicans for considering using a tactic that he himself used four times during his tenure as majority leader. And he is hardly alone in showing hypocrisy on the issue. Various other Democratic senators are now decrying potential tactics they have approved in the past.

The facts on Byrd's hypocrisy are made clear in a recently published article in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, "The Constitutional Option to Change Senate Rules and Procedures: A Majoritarian Means to Overcome the Filibuster."

Typical Democrat ploy of deceit.


By Mae