Reid is a dottering old fool. He's toast and he knows it. I've never seen such blatant hatred of people in my life. Steny Hoyer was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren earlier this evening and he displays the same perverse affliction.
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Among the Democrats who voted to continue delaying the civil rights bill was Senator Robert Byrd, who personally filibustered it for 14 hours. Historians note that "it was Southern Democrats who mounted an 83-day filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. The final vote to cut off debate saw 29 Senators in opposition, 80% of them Democrats. Among those voting to block the civil rights bill was West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who personally filibustered the bill for 14 hours. The next year he also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Mr. Byrd still sits in the Senate, and indeed preceded Mr. Reid as his party's majority leader until he stepped down from that role in 1989."
For Harry Reid to say that Republicans obstructing the health care bill is no different than Republicans who tried to maintain slavery is just... I asked earlier if Obama put this thought in his head at the pep rally Obama held for these guys up on the Capitol Hill in the Senate on Sunday. Albert Gore Sr. was a huge anti-civil rights guy. J. William Fulbright, who was Bill Clinton's mentor in Arkansas, huge, all of these Southern Democrats. Strom Thurmond was a Democrat back then, he opposed it, all of these people opposed the civil rights movement, Lester Maddox, Democrat, Bull Connor. Had it not been for Republicans in the Senate, a greater percentage of Republicans in the Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats did. But as John Fund points out today: "The final reason Mr. Reid's comments were so inapt and offensive is that the battles for women's suffrage and civil rights he referred to were about expanding freedom. That's not what the 2,074-page health care bill being debated in the Senate today does." It restricts freedom.
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