THE MOST HILARIOUS QUOTE OF THE day comes from the congressional black caucus, who fired off a statement to Bill Frist today on the subject of the filubuster. Thanks to Power Line for catching it.
Restricting the ability of Democrats to block final votes on several of Bush's most controversial nominees "would be particularly offensive to people of color," members of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote Majority Leader Bill Frist during the day. "All of the major legislation that today bars racial discrimination in voting, employment and housing was passed after filibusters" were broken, it said.
Or, in other words, the filibuster was used to obstruct legislation that bars racial discrimination. This is their defense of the filibuster? That getting rid of what was the major impediment to equal rights would be offensive to people of color?
Somebody, apparantly a speechwriter, has lost their mind. Either that or it is someone's backhanded way of telling Frist to go nuclear.
ABC went out of their way to rewrite history recently, crediting Republicans with filibustering civil rights legislation.
The filibuster has been used historically by the minority party, which can't win with a vote count. Democrats have opposed the filibuster before — in the 1960s, they accused Republicans of using it to block civil rights legislation.
According to the Senate Historical Office, the record for the longest individual speech is held by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
In their zeal to blame everything on Republicans, they overlooked the fact that it was southern Democrats who filibustered civil rights legislation. In fact, Thurmond was a Democrat at the time mentioned in the piece. The last filibuster on the subject of civil rights came from Robert Byrd himself.
More on this and a more complete history of Democrats filibustering of civil rights legislation at Transterrestrial Musings. Meanwhile, if you go to ABC's piece now, the part I have placed in bold text has been removed.
Deacon wraps all of this nonsense perfectly:
Leftists can remember that they're right about things; some of them just have a hard time remembering why.
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