New Dem Chairman, Howie Dean goes to Kansas, one of the reddest of the red states. His speech, delivered at Liberty Hall in Lawrence last Friday was according to one attendee "wonderful, very energizing, a very positive, powerful message."
Dean, who described his stand on political issues as "Kansas values" went on to say that "This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're (Democrats) the good."
Well that would be hard to top, but never one to be outdone for hotwire rhetoric, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia compared a change in Senate rules to allow President Bush's judicial nominations to proceed to floor votes without a filibuster to Nazi Germany.
Byrd stated: "Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law" as if allowing constitutionally required majority vote for Presidential nominees would "enable" a dictatorship. He also cited remarks by a former Indiana Senator that "Jesus Christ was killed by a majority."
In all the years of Republicans being in the minority, I can not recall ANY statement of their minority status as offensive as the above.
Both these example illustrate the plain truth; which is that congressional Democrats do not accept the fact that they have now lost three consecutive elections. First in 2000, then the congressional mid term elections in 2002 and now 2004.
Continuing their outrageous rhetorical conduct only deepens the partisan divide of red and blue states and does NOTHING to create the atmosphere necessary for achieving progress on the important issues confronting the nation. As I've said before...the cost of continuing with virulent partisan obstructionism can be summed up with two words: TOM DASCHLE!
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