Three Cheers for Senator Robert Byrd

[LiberalInGeorgia2005]

http://moveonpac.com/
http://byrd.senate.gov/

HIP-HIP-HOORAY!
HIP-HIP-HOORAY!
HIP-HIP-HOORAY!



For any politician who once ranked high in the Ku Klux Klan, redemption must be hard-earned. I believe Robert Byrd, senator pro-tem (D-W.Va.) has secured the status of a redeemed man. His affiliation with the MoveOn pac says volumes.

MoveOn and its sister organization MoveOn.org are among only a handful of powerful political organizations with the guts to take an uncompromising stand against the fascist extremism of the Republican Party.

Byrd's time left on this Earth is not long being in the late 80's. He is making every day count with his brave opposition to the rightwing's chronic mendacity and dictatorial tactics.

The rest of the Democratic politicians and their affiliates need to take their cues from Byrd. It burns me up the way the Dems still quail at GOP aggression. They suffer from the delusion that fascist absolutism mania is negotiable. They are still in bed with anti-democratic corporate tyranny of global proportions.

Some Dems may argue Byrd is so old he has no worries about career advancement. They need to face the fact that "moving to the center" means nothing less than rubber-stamping every GOP legislative proposal. The American Fascist Party (Republican) will not stop hectoring and sledgehammering the Democrats until the Democrats shed every last vestige of difference between them and Tom DeLay. The world corporate titans of the labor-exploiting, pollution-dumping, democracy-subverting variety will always pour five times or better the amount of money into GOP coffers than Democrat coffers unless the Dems stop siding with underdogs altogether.

In short, the ultimate end and only end for Democratic concessions is for the Democrat Party to feed itself to the Fascist Party (Republican) and let the GOP assimilate and excrete it. Senator Byrd is showing us the way: DEMOCRATS TO FASCISTS: DROP DEAD!
I'm not saying we wouldn't bend our precious party, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, I'm not saying we wouldn't lose a few political rounds in the short term...I am saying it is the last best hope for two major parties instead of one-party totalitarianism. I wish we had multiple parties of electoral consequence. I don't see the Dems as a panacea at all, but if the Dems become part of the undifferentiated fascist mass, what hope is there for Greens or Libertarians?

ROBERT BYRD: THE NEW AMERICAN EAGLE

[rainy]

1. Robert Byrd is my hero ever since he first spoke out about

not voting for war powers for the president.

[mom cat]

2. Use his link to e-mmail him to filibuster!

http://byrd.senate.gov/

[LiberalInGeorgia2005]

3. It's considered courteous to only e-mail senators from resident states

Not saying that is a good thing, but Robert Byrd and his staff won't take me serious for even one second because I'm not a resident of West Virginia, nor should they. I e-mailed my senators, but I expect no response from Isakson and Chambliss.

[mom cat]

5. Actually, it is a little different for senators who are national leaders

like Byrd. I have had a good reception calling out of state senators on this.

[babylonsister]

6. I'd love to know where you learned your etiquette

concerning senators. I've been writing senators of other states for awhile because
my repug ones don't listen AT ALL.

[Lugnut]

7. I e-mailed and faxed mine as well

I also contacted Sen Byrd's office. I have a better chance of getting a prompt and courteous response from Sen Byrd's office.

[Martin Eden]

4. What hope is there for Greens or Libertarians?

The hope is called Instant Runoff Voting.

As was demonstrated so clearly in the 2000 presidential election, a vote for your first-choice third-party candidate can result in your last-choice getting elected.

Without Instant Runoff Voting, no third party can emerge to pose a serious threat to the stranglehold of the two-party system that has led us to the current sorry state of affairs.

With Instant Runoff voting, fresh vigor and new ideas will be infused into our national political dialogue and the bipolar insanity of left and right -- in certain respects an artificial construct designed to divide and conquer the population -- will begin to give way to a more rational political dynamic.

To be sure, other vital reforms are necessary to improve democracy in our country, but IRV is right up there with eliminating the legalized bribery system of corporate campaign financing.

Unfortunately, most Americans don't even know what IRV is, and methinks that is no mistake. Why do our elected representatives oppose improving our democracy?

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